The North Miami Beach, Fla., Police Department is under fire after a woman discovered that not only were police using actual mug shots of African-American men as shooting targets at a firing range, but one of the men in the photos, bearing bullet holes from a police pistol, was the woman’s brother. On Saturday, Sgt.…

Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, and noticeably absent from almost every major category was the civil rights biopic Selma, which tells the story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., for equal voting rights. It has been adored by movie critics and moviegoers alike—not to mention the grassroots movement…

The mega-fight that the world has been waiting for inches closer to becoming a reality now that Manny “Pacquiao and his promoter Top Rank have agreed to terms for a May 2 bout” with Floyd Mayweather Jr., according to ESPN.com. The deal is still being hammered out, ESPN notes, and Mayweather has not yet agreed…

Atlanta fathers Kaleb and Kordale Lewis didn’t expect to become famous a year ago when they posted a photo of them doing their daughters’ hair, but the photo went viral, and the couple and their three children are now starring in a Nikon commercial as part of the camera company’s I Am Generation Image campaign. “What…

Five months ago Fort Lauderdale, Fla., police arrested Jamal Rutledge—a juvenile defendant—on probation-violation charges involving criminal mischief and burglary. Police took him back to the precinct, where Officer Franklin Foulks began processing Rutledge’s arrest. Foulks suddenly collapsed, but instead of bolting to freedom, Rutledge came to the officer’s aid. Now Rutledge and three officers will…

A Memphis, Tenn., mother and her boyfriend are both in jail after the boyfriend reportedly beat her 3-year-old son so badly that he broke his thighbone, dislocated a vertebra and bruised his lung, Eyewitness 3 News reports. According to the news station, Anthony Gulledge, 30, arrived home Saturday to find that the little boy had…

New York City police officers have been issued a stern warning from their higher-ups: Either get back to enforcing minor infractions or don’t expect to take vacation or sick days, according to several unnamed officers who spoke with the New York Post. The Post notes that officers are now being ordered to hand in “activity…

Last week Boko Haram entered the northern Nigerian town of Baga and began opening fire on residents. According to news reports, bodies were left bloodied across roadways, and those who fled into the bushes were chased and executed. Once the shooting stopped, some 2,000 people were reported dead in what Amnesty International is calling possibly…

Around 5 p.m. Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake destroyed most of Haiti. Buildings were crushed, children were left parentless, and images of rubble and destruction became synonymous with the Caribbean country. In total, once all of the carnage was assessed, more than 100,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people were…

Let me start by saying two things: First, I love conspiracy theories and am willing to speak for hours as to why, based on sound reasoning and valid arguments, Tupac could, in fact, have faked his own death and is living in Cuba. Second, I am a profound protector of black legacy. I believe that…