A lawyer and investigator representing the mother of Kenneka Jenkins on Tuesday visited the suburban Chicago hotel room where the teenager was partying hours before being found dead.

The New York Daily News reports the 16-year-old was hit with a flashlight by Officer Sean McCamman during an arrest in June 2014.

A high school basketball player told reporters the coach would place his hand on her shoulders and other places, gestures she never experienced with their previous coach.

PHILADELPHIA — About 50 teenagers were arrested for violating a newly enforced curfew for minors aimed at cracking down on mobs of young people responsible for random attacks on people as well as property damage, police in Philadelphia said Saturday. The arrests began about 9 p.m. Friday downtown and on South Street, a 10-block strip […]

On Tuesday, Writer Farhad Manjoo posted a controversial article titled, “How Black People Use Twitter” on Slate.com. The writer attempted to expose Black people's behavior on Twitter, describing popular Trending Topics like "Black Ghetto Baby Names" or "If Santa Were Black", as a game of racial insults and buffoonery which involves a large sector of Black Twitter users. The article holds a hint of validity, in recognizing the presence of a personal connection between users which extends outside the limits of each user’s friends list. On the other hand, the article offends in it's inability to recognize Black trends as an extension of Black creativity, rather than attributing these trends as an intellectual flaw and lack of morals.

As far as I can tell, the Twitter hashtag #wordsthatleadtotrouble got started at about 11 a.m. Pacific Time on Sunday morning, when a user named Kookeyy posted this short message: “#wordsthatleadtotrouble ‘Don’t Worry I gotchu.” A couple minutes later, Kookeyy posted another take on the same theme: “#wordsthatleadtotrouble – I Love Yuh *kiss teeth*.” On […]

Doctors and parents were stunned when research published more than a decade ago found American girls were beginning puberty at much younger ages, some as early as 7. A new study released Sunday suggests the average age at which puberty begins may still be falling for white and Latina girls.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Companies showed a lack of confidence about hiring for a third straight month in July, making it likely the economy will grow more slowly the rest of the year. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.5 percent.