[caption id="attachment_3838" align="alignleft" width="300"] 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed in February of 2012[/caption] WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – A Florida man who was acquitted of murder in the racially charged shooting death of an unarmed black teenager will not face federal hate crime charges, US justice...
[caption id="attachment_3817" align="alignright" width="300"] Alaska Cannabis Club CEO Charlo Greene smokes a joint at the medical marijuana dispensary in Anchorage, Alaska. On Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, Alaska will become the third state in the nation to legalize marijuana. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)[/caption] JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska...
[caption id="attachment_3805" align="alignleft" width="300"] D.C.-based lawyer and creator of the viral #OscarsSoWhite hashtag April Reign is one of many critics boycotting the 2015 Academy Awards. (@ReignOfApril / Twitter)[/caption] Of everything published in the run up to this year's Academy Awards ceremony, diversity — or rather, a...
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Yahoo has reported that Bobbi Kristina Brown was using heroin and other drugs before she was found face down and unresponsive in her bathtub on January 31. The allegation, which comes from a People source, is that the 21-year-old “regularly” used heroin, cocaine...
Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - A girl thought to be as young as seven killed herself and seven others in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan conceded his government had initially underrated the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. The attack on a market...