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ATLANTA — After the Georgia Parole Board refused to grant a pardon for Troy Davis this past Thursday, they spared the life of a convicted killer and changed his sentence to life in prison hours before his scheduled execution. Samuel David Crowe was convicted of beating a store owner to death in 1988 and was […]

ATLANTA — Minutes before he was put to death, Troy Davis asked his supporters to “continue to fight this fight” – but will they, and how? The Georgia inmate’s case outraged hundreds of thousands of people around the world who found the evidence against him weak, and opponents of the death penalty hope their anger […]

SAN ANTONIO — A longtime adviser to Gov. Rick Perry, upset over his abrupt firing at a Texas university, admitted Thursday he told staff he would surrender his office keys only if “anyone is man enough to take them” – all while brandishing a pocketknife in what police called a “nonthreatening” way. Huh? Perry Connects […]

Airport security recently took to the afro of a Black Dallas woman after agents told her they had to check her hair for bombs. Isis Brantley was walking through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport headed for Dallas when TSA  officials ran her down just to check her hair. Click Here To See Video. See also: Natural Hair […]

The outpouring of support and grief for Troy Davis was visible across tv screens and the web in the last few weeks. But what was also visible though not as much on the surface, were the commenters glad to see an arguably innocent man be executed. Buzzfeed compiled a list of 15 of the most […]

Four men dressed as women were arrested Sunday for robbing a Florida fabric store after a clerk at the store said the men stuffed feathers, lace gloves, glitter tights and bra pads into their bags. The cross-dressing crooks fled from the the store with nearly $800 of stolen merchandise when the clerk confronted them, police said. […]

UPDATED (December 17, 2014): Seventy years after 14-year-old George Stinney became the youngest person in American history to be executed, he was “exonerated” today by a South Carolina judge who vacated his conviction. Judge Carmen T. Mullen wrote that her court “finds fundamental, Constitutional violations of due process exist in the 1944 prosecution of George Stinney, Jr. […]

From KYSDC Howard University students took to the streets to protest the execution of Troy Davis last night. 13 people including a professor were arrested in total. Read more here The students were told to move from the front of the White House to Lafayette Square. They refused to move and were then arrested. One […]

In the wake of several high-profile capital punishment cases, the death penalty is once again becoming a hot button political issue. And while the number of death sentences per year has dropped over the last decade, the data paints an interesting picture that demands heavy analysis from both sides of the issue. See also: Do You Agree […]

After years of believing overeating is simply a matter of will, or rather lack their of, scientists are now discovering that food addiction, much like addiction to illicit drugs, is caused by a change in brain chemistry. Experts at Yale University are among a community of researchers exploring the science of food addiction and debunking […]

A number of community gardens are popping up in urban communities across the nation in response to a lack of access to full-service grocery stores and healthy fresh foods. For residents of these food deserts, the prospect of healthy, fresh food comes at a critical juncture where rates of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases run […]

BROOKLYN — A 7-year-old Brooklyn boy is being hailed as a hero days after calmly dialing 911 after his sick mom collapsed and suffered a seizure. Paramedics arrived minutes after Drew Champagnie told a 911 dispatcher his address as well as his father’s cell phone number. After his heroics, Champagnie went to school as if nothing […]