Rasheen Rose was mentally disabled. His family placed him in a facility in Queens, N.Y., that was better equipped to handle the 33-year-old’s needs. According to reports, two years ago, Rose became unresponsive while being restrained at the Fineson Developmental Center and later was pronounced dead, New York’s Daily News reports. A year later, Rose’s sister,…

A 4-year-old Georgia boy had been given a bath and dressed when his mother walked out of the room and collapsed. According to news station WALB, little Jaden Howe didn’t panic he just remembered what his mother taught him and called 911. Jaden told the dispatcher, “My mommy is passed out and she can’t talk.…

According to Shelly Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers will be sold to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for an NBA-record $2 billion. “I am delighted that we are selling the team to Steve, who will be a terrific owner,” Shelly Sterling said in a statement, ESPN reports. “We have worked for 33 years to build…

On Wednesday Google publicly revealed data that supported what many had speculated: White men run the Web giant.  Earlier this month, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and members of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition attended eBay’s and Google’s shareholder meetings to challenge the tech giants on diversity. In response to Jackson’s challenge, Google released the data and…

A Norfolk, Va., 10th-grade honor student who had grown tired of his parents’ punishments, which included ” … taking away my iPod and stuff,” admitted in court Wednesday that he murdered both of them a week before Christmas. According to news station WTKR, Vincent Parker, 16, told police that he attacked his mother with pepper spray,…

A woman claims that she wasn’t allowed to dance at the St. Louis African Arts Festival because she is white. Event organizers say they asked the woman to sit down and stop dancing because she was interrupting the show. Susan Stone claims that she has proof in the form of a secretly recorded video that…

On Wednesday, students at Rutgers University took their Beyoncé obsession into the classroom, and are earning college credit thanks to a new summer course titled, Feminist Perspectives: Politicizing Beyoncé, in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.  Spearheaded by doctoral student Kevin Allred, the class focuses on how ‘Yonce used her star status and female-empowerment…

50 Cent can blame his tight Mets jersey for what many people are calling the worst first pitch in the history of first pitches. On Tuesday the rapper took the mound at Citi Field in Queens, N.Y., to throw the ceremonial pitch before the New York Mets-Pittsburgh Pirates game. He did a decent job looking…

On Wednesday Venus and Serena Williams were bounced from the French Open, losing to lesser-known opponents in the second round, the Associated Press reports. In what many are calling a stunning upset, Serena, the defending French Open champion, lost to Garbine Muguruza of Spain in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2. This marks the second time that…

Several groups who find the Washington Redskins name to be offensive are asking NFL players to join the cause. The Oneida Indian Nation and the National Congress of American Indians, two groups who have been vocal about changing the team’s name, started the letter-writing frenzy that just last week had some 50 Senate Democrats penning…