California felon Jeremy Meeks, whose mug shot photo broke the Internet long before Kim Kardashian’s nudes, has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison. According to the New York Daily News, Meeks, 30, “was arrested during a gang sweep June 18 for gun possession in Stockton, Calif.” Since he had already served time in…

The Benjamin Button Special. That’s what you ask for if you have a son who is misbehaving and don’t happen to live too far from A-1 Kutz barbershop in Snelville, Ga. Three days a week, owner Russell Fredrick and his band of barbers will cut your mischievous boy’s hair in such a way as to…

Today is the day the nation’s top high school players break the hearts of all those anxious hopefuls who have waited breathlessly to hear their school called but, alas, were spurned. Don’t worry—Snoop Dogg knows your pain. That’s because the rapper’s son Cordell Broadus—a 6-foot-2-inch, 195-pound, four-star wide receiver out of Las Vegas’ Bishop Gorman…

A Maryland high school teacher was punched and had to be hospitalized last week after witnesses claimed he made a racially insensitive remark, according to NBC Washington. According to the news station, the unnamed teacher at Forestville High School was assaulted Jan. 29 after a male student misinterpreted a comment the instructor made during class. The…

In 2013, six black and brown kids from the Bronx Academy of Promise in New York City took on the odds, and more than 350 teams, and came out victorious after a math app they created for Google Play won Best in Nation at the Verizon Innovative App Challenge.   Now those six teens—who received…

Detroit native James Robertson’s 1998 Honda Accord quit on him some 10 years ago, but he didn’t quit on life. For 10 years since losing his wheels, Robertson has walked some 21 miles a day, to and from his house in Detroit to his factory job in Rochester Hills, Mich., and in more than 10…

Former NFL player and current NFL analyst Warren Sapp was arrested Monday morning on charges he solicited a prostitute, according to TMZ Sports. The news site notes that Sapp, who does commentary for the NFL Network, was in Phoenix for the Super Bowl. The 42-year-old Hall of Famer was booked and no word was given on whether…

Michael Jackson’s famed Neverland Ranch could become a sex-assault rehabilitation facility for children, if rumors are correct that a New York businessman is bidding to purchase the property with plans to convert the deceased singer’s home. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, several buyers have emerged to purchase the 2,700-acre property—which Jackson purchased in…

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office is outraged after Jami Tillotson, a deputy public defender at the office, was arrested Tuesday outside a courtroom for asking a plainclothes officer not to interview her client or take his photograph. According to a video released by the defender’s office, Tillotson and her client, an African-American male, are…