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Two North Carolina parents are facing drug charges after their 9-year-old son brought in their marijuana joints to school after an anti-drug event. WBTV reports: The 11-year-old student is in 5th grade at a an elementary school in Matthews. Police say he brought his parents’ marijuana cigarettes to school when he reported them. Matthews Police […]

By Nelson George Helen Folasade Adu, a.k.a. pop soul chanteuse Sade, had been a complete vegetarian for nine years when she spotted some lambs on her farm in England.

Detective Brian Stevenson, An off-duty Baltimore City Police Department detective was killed on Saturday night in a dispute over a parking space.

Heading into the homestretch of the midterm elections, President Barack Obama is targeting key Democratic constituencies as he tries to energize voters and build up Election Day turnout among his supporters.

Officer Richard Chrisman of Phoenix, AZ is currently on trial for shooting an unarmed man and his dog. Footage that put him on the Brady List for police officers with questionable integrity recently surfaced. In the footage, he can be seen planting a crack pipe on a mentally challenged homeless woman. Chrisman claims he planted […]

MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. — A college football player is dead after police in New York shot at his car during a bar brawl. The dead man was identified as Danroy Henry, a junior at Pace University’s suburban Westchester County campus. He was a varsity defensive football player at the school. According to Mount Pleasant police, […]

The U.S. Department of Education’s office of civil rights is investigating whether black male students are punished disproportionately in the Christina School District in Wilmington and Newark, one of five districts nationwide under scrutiny for its discipline record.

The election of the first black president in U.S. history was supposed to usher in a post-racial era in America. But a series of controversies since then, from the White House “Beer Summit” to the conflicts between the tea party and NAACP, shows that race is still a hot-button issue.

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien looks at how some are fighting debt from the pulpit in “Almighty Debt: A Black in America Special,” premiering at 9 p.m. ET on October 21.

President Barack Obama met with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday in a wide-ranging talk that also included Rice giving the president a copy of her new book, the White House said.

On the eve of midterm elections, reports show that the African-American vote is pivotal to the outcome for Democrats.

More than 80 residents of the Brownsville community packed the Town Council meeting Wednesday to present a petition to Mayor Berlin G. Myers asking the town to oppose a Confederate battle flag in the historically black neighborhood.