Crime

The Georgia parents who say their sons attempted to kill them two weeks ago are now standing by the boys.

Georgia officers did not answer a 911 call regarding a White infant spotted with a Black family after finding it "racially insensitive."

Romechia Simms, the Maryland mother who was found pushing her dead son on a swing for two days earlier this year, has been charged with manslaughter and first-degree child abuse, BuzzFeed reports. Ji’Aire Donnell Lee‘s death was declared a homicide in July, after a medical examiner cited the 3-year-old’s cause of death as dehydration and hypothermia. […]

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A 23-year-old father says desperation led him to rob a Michigan bank so he could pay for his daughter's chemotherapy treatments.

Crime

Child Protective Services previously sought to remove six children from a Texas home where they were killed by their mother's ex-boyfriend.

An 11-year-old is facing manslaughter, among other charges, for the death of a three-year-old in Detroit.

A Texas mother took initiative when her 10-month-old son was discovered locked inside of a daycare by staffers overnight.` Sharonda Ross says she dropped her son Jordan off Monday morning at Joann’s Day Care in northeast Houston and expected her husband to pick him up later that evening, reports the New York Daily News. When she realized he hadn’t, […]

Racial tensions arose on Saturday in Douglasville, Georgia, when a fleet of vehicles toting the Confederate flag approached a child’s birthday party. Two different bystanders captured the incident on cell phone, portraying two different accounts of what happened. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Melissa Alford — the woman who hosted the party — witnessed the individuals in the […]

Crime

New York City police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting that killed a Bronx resident as he was holding his toddler child in his arms. James Capers, 22, was arrested Wednesday, according to the NY Daily News. He was charged with opening fire in the fatal shooting that took the life […]

On Friday, Michelle Blair, 36 was sentenced to life without parole for killing her two children and then putting their bodies into a deep freezer. Her final appearance in the courtroom only solidified Blair’s lack of regret for her ruthless crime. In her last chance to speak in court, she chose to point out the […]

Creating a narrative for a young black queer children wasn’t hard for freelance writer turned author Myles Johnson. Pulling from his own life experiences, the Atlanta based writer along with illustrator Kendrick Daye helped bring to life the story of young Jeremiah Nebula — a kid getting ready for his trip to Mars — in […]