A Canadian couple won a $50 million lottery jackpot, and all they needed to do was cash the ticket. Hakeem Nosiru signed the back of the Jan. 17 winning Lotto Max lottery ticket and taped it to the inside of his wife’s purse before they went off to church. After returning home, they realized that…

When more than 200 girls were kidnapped from a village in Nigeria in April, a social media campaign went viral. The #BringBackOurGirls became a movement that included first lady Michelle Obama posing for the campaign. That campaign grew internationally and has become a rallying cry for protesters outside Nigeria’s capital. Now, police in Nigeria say…

Donald Sterling may have to answer more questions regarding racist remarks from another alleged mistress, Maiko Maya King, who is suing the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner alleging she was fired as an assistant after she rejected “a stream of racist and sexist taunts,” TMZ reports. On Monday, King, 40, filed the lawsuit claiming that…

Blame 12 Years a Slave for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’s lack of critical acclaim. That is what Mandela screenwriter William Nicholson told the Daily Telegraph after the movie was slighted at just about every major movie-awards show. According to Nicholson, 12 Years a Slave “sucked up all the guilt about black people” before Nicholson’s…

With the World Cup just weeks away and Brazil set to take center stage, that country’s soccer treasure—and arguably the world’s best soccer player—Pele will have a heavy heart: His son, Edson Cholbi do Nascimento, known as Edinho, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for money laundering, The Independent reports. According to the news…

Donald Sterling walks into a black church … no, seriously: Donald Sterling the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner walked into a South Los Angeles church and sat for a two-hour service Sunday, TMZ reports. It is unclear if Sterling, who arrived at the Praises of Zion Baptist church with bodyguards, came for any other reason…

Justin Bieber told a joke; a bad joke that included him saying the n-word several times. It was taped and recorded and released to the public. Now “The Biebs” has apologized. According to TMZ the recording is from 2009 when Bieber was only 15. Bieber told the gossip site in a statement, “As a kid,…

A 37-year-old Louisiana schoolteacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old male student and knowingly exposing him to the AIDS virus, WWLTV reports.   According to news station, sheriff’s deputies arrested Derrick Nesby last week at H.L. Bourgeois High School, the Terrebonne Parish school where he teaches and is also the track coach. “We…

Rachel Jeantel was struggling. She was on the witness stand as an unsuspecting key figure thrust into a national case involving her friend’s death, race, racism, “Stand your ground” laws and more. She was the last person to talk to Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, before his deadly encounter with George Zimmerman. Her testimony…

Early Friday morning, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki apologized to veterans and Congress for a VA system that had come under national scrutiny after scathing accusations about the flawed heath care system for veterans, which included yearlong wait times to see doctors during his tenure. During his announcement, Shinseki declared, “This situation can be fixed.”…