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A child playing with a lighter near a Christmas tree may have caused this week's deadly fire at a rowhouse in Philadelphia that killed 12 people, including eight children, according to a search warrant for the property.

Lawrence N. Brooks, a Black man who was credited with being the oldest WWII veteran in the U.S., has sadly passed away at the supercentenarian age of 112 years old.

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Former Ohio State defensive back Marcus Williamson posted a lengthy Twitter thread recalling his experiences as a "young Black college athlete." which included allegations that Trayvon Martin's photo was used to illustrate a "no hoodie" rule. Coach Urban Meyer first denied it, but later admitted the photo was used.

Airbnb is introducing a new experiment in Oregon to combat prejudice users from denying people housing rentals based on their racial background by making it so hosts only see the initials of potential guests.

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The HBCU community was on high alert after several historically Black colleges and universities received bomb threats on Tuesday.

Officer Laquandia Cooley experienced the unthinkable after checking into a shooting on Larkin Street in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. What she found when she got there was her 20-year-old son, Charles Stewart Jr., laying in the middle of the street as the victim of a fatal shooting. 

It was reported that the area where fans were standing was meant for wheelchair access and people with disabilities so the railing was not built to support hundreds of pounds leaning on it.

In 2021 alone, the city of Chicago recorded its most deadliest year since the 1990s after the Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed that 836 of the more than 1,000 homicides it handled occurred in Chi-Town.

At this point, we have seen it. Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worst, it does. It has been reported that another COVID-19 variant has been detected in France. According to @fox35orlando, the variant is named #IHU and so far it has already infected 12 people living in naer Marseille, a port city […]

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The incident that injured the 4-year-old child reportedly occurred on New Year's Day.