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Getting disciplined in front of your friends is embarrassing enough. Getting disciplined in front of the whole world? Well, that’s another story completely. But that’s exactly what happened to a teenager in Baltimore who was confronted by someone who appears to be his mother after he was caught in the streets during Monday’s unrest in […]

Deshawn Isabelle, 15, charged in Blue Line sexual assault, robbery http://t.co/c9J7r3fLpJ — Around Oak Park (@AroundOakPark) April 23, 2015 The mother of a 15-year-old turned the boy in to police after she recognized him in the surveillance footage from a sexual assault incident in Chicago, the Huffington Post reports. Chicago Police released photos of Deshawn Isabelle last Thursday, […]

World

An Indonesian court found a #Chicago couple guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced them to prison. http://t.co/lGNtzn98XI — Katie Woodson (@katie_Woodson) April 21, 2015 A 19-year-old woman and her boyfriend were sentenced to prison on Tuesday by a Bali court in the brutal death of the woman’s mother, whose body was stuffed into a suitcase […]

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For years, 38-year-old La-Sonya Mitchell-Clark of Youngstown, Ohio longed to meet her biological mother after learning of her adoption, according to ABC’s Good Morning America. So when the Ohio Department of Health released birth records last month for infants born between Jan. 1, 1964 and Sept. 18, 1996, she began her search in a heartrending […]

Since the tragic death of his wife, Carlos Morales and his quadruplets have captured the hearts of America. In a recent interview with People, Morales dished on life as a single father and shared fond memories of his late wife, Erica. Carlos says Erica was the love of his life. After hearing they were expecting not one, but […]

Crime

A mother from Cincinnati has been taken into custody and charged with aggravated murder after she allegedly beheaded her 3-month-old daughter. According to ABC 2 News and police sources, Deasia Watkins was charged after authorities discovered the gruesome murder scene in her home yesterday evening. The site reports: Cincinnati Police said they responded to the 5900 block of Waldway Lane at […]

A Chicago family is in mourning after an infant was killed by her grandmother with a power saw on Monday, CNN reports. The child, believed to be between 7 and 9-months-old, was killed by her 52-year-old grandmother on Monday morning around 9:30 a.m. in the city’s Little Village area. Manuela Rodriguez reportedly slit the throat of baby […]

Crime

The uncle of a 13-year-old Brooklyn girl saved the teenager and her friend from prostitution by posing as a customer after the two were convinced by a stranger to have sex for money, prosecutors say. The girls, who have not been identified, met 25-year-old suspect Marcus (Melo) Sumpter while returning from a party on Aug. 30, […]

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Internet memes are hilarious, until you become one. One of the latest gags targeted a two-year-old baby girl. Her real name is Mariah Anderson and she has…

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  Haven’t heard much talk about Father’s Day this year. Debates about what Dad would like, what size he might wear, what he could use — these topics haven’t exactly been crossing the social media universe or Black Zeitgeist too much lately. It’s this coming Sunday, and there has been a lack of conversation about […]

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It seems like every time you turn around there’s another study of black women, black men, black people in general. Well, one can argue that it’s hard to know where you’re going unless you take stock of where you are. To that end, one of black America’s leading publications has set out to survey the […]

Community Heroes: an in-depth series on the lives and impact of people giving back to our global communities. Kashaun Cooper Sr., Founder of Fathers Rock, Inc. & Author Of “The Champion Father” Base Of Operations: Baltimore, Md. Why he is a Community Hero: Mr. Cooper started his Fathers Rock, Inc., organization after working with a […]