Chicago Public Schools has agreed to a settlement to pay $1.2 million to the mother of a student who was being bullied at one of their schools and died after he attempted to kill himself. According to The Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Public Schools has reached a $1.25 million settlement with …

Photo: FocusStocker (Shutterstock) A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a Black former track coach for a Connecticut high school alleges that his firing was an act of retaliation for telling police that a student spat on him last year. The Hartford Courant reports that Lorenzo Milledge believes he was …

NAGOYA, Japan—Vegetables, vegetables, vegetables. I am sitting in a cardboard cubicle at a counter inside a ramen shop, rehearsing my order in my head over and over again. My sister is in the next cubicle over—all I can see is the top of her head—and later I will learn that …

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Adele is setting the music scene ablaze next month with a special concert performance and Oprah Winfrey interview as part of the event.  Ahead of the release of her long-awaited fourth album 30, CBS is set to air a two-hour special “Adele One Night Only” featuring a concert debuting the …

Six FDNY firefighters have been suspended for driving their fire truck to the office of NY state senator Zellnor Myrie’s office and threatening his staff over the city’s vaccine mandate for workers. The firefighters, who were on duty Friday, drove a ladder truck to the state senator’s Brooklyn office. The …

Former First Lady and author Michelle Obama appears onstage with Tracee Ellis Ross at Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama at the Forum on November 15, 2018 in Inglewood, Calif.Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) Black-ish is going out big—as it should. Kenya Barris’ hit ABC series, which spawned the …

In many ways, The Odyssey is a story about talking to strangers. As Odysseus travels home after the Trojan War, he meets an array of new people—some hospitable, others violent. He relies on these new connections for shelter, but he also tries to get to know them, telling his own …

Colin Powell, the first African American to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, who also was a four-star U.S. Army general and also the first African American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has died of complications of COVID-19 Monday, CNN reports. He was 84.The Bronx, N.Y.,  native rose in …

North Carolina Central University (NCCU) launched a new institute to help increase the number of Black male teachers in the K-12 public school system.  Black men account for about two percent of the country’s public school teachers, according to a U.S. Department of Education report cited by the News & …