All of Wikipedia’s pages, topics and entries related to African-American history will be getting some sprucing up by students and faculty members from Howard University, according to HBCU Digest. The “edit-a-thon” is part of a Black History Month initiative to be held at the school’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center on Feb. 19. Eligible content ranges from entries…

A slim majority of Americans approve of how President Obama is handling unemployment, according to a new poll conducted by the Associated Press and GfK. It’s great news for Obama, especially since the poll was conducted before the jobs report was released Friday, a report that was “surprisingly strong” and fairly consistent with Americans’ perception…

Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and candidate in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, is blasting President Barack Obama yet again, but this time it’s not about how the president lets daughters Malia and Sasha listen to Beyoncé’s music. This time it’s about Obama’s recent remarks in which the president reminded people that Islam is not…

When a New York Metro-North commuter train rammed into a Mercedes SUV on Tuesday that was stopped on the track, sending the crash site into flames, 33-year-old Steven Smalls, the train’s engineer and a married father of two, sprang into action, pulling trapped passengers to safety, the New York Daily News reports. Smalls’ sister, Latasha…

The number of female African immigrants living in the U.S. who have had their genitals cut or mutilated is nearing the half-million mark, the New York Times reports. American gynecologists and other health care providers are increasingly being exposed to a custom that many of them are simply not prepared to take on. That 500,000…

An Atlanta woman was sentenced to four years in prison and 36 years on probation Wednesday for helping to throw hot oil—that had been heated on a stove—on another woman during a fight in February 2014, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Myzelle Chantel Armstrong, 19, and her friends had gotten into it with other women on…

Zacarias Moussaoui, the French citizen of Moroccan descent and former al-Qaida operative convicted of helping to plan the 9/11 attacks against the U.S., told a federal judge that in the late 1990s, senior royals in Saudi Arabia sponsored al-Qaida—the same group that went on to carry out the Sept. 11 attacks, the New York Times…

An Oklahoma City woman walked up to the counter at a Subway restaurant, pulled out a rifle and demanded that the cashier give her cash. But before the robber left, she turned around and placed a $1 bill in the employee tip jar, telling the cashier, “That’s for you,” ABC 7 News reports. The report…

Similar to the Villanova University report released in December about how black girls with browner hues were disciplined much more harshly and much more frequently than fairer-skinned black girls, a new report released Wednesday by Columbia University’s Law School found that girls of color “face much harsher school discipline” than their white counterparts, a press release issued…