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After a lengthy court battle, the rightful creator of the “Super Soaker” toy has been awarded $72.9 million. Johnson Research and Development Co. and founder Lonnie Johnson were in a royalty dispute with Hasbro toy company since February over royalties accrued for the Nerf line toys between 2007 and 2012.

Harry Belafonte is suing Dr. Martin Luther King’s heirs over property that he says was given to him by the late civil rights icon. Belafonte’s suit is in reference to three documents, photos and letters that chronicled his long friendship with King.

The Supreme Court will decide if affirmative action is a justifiable factor in college admissions on Tuesday. The judges will take on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a 2006 constitutional amendment banning the use of racial preferences in public university admissions.

  The University of Michigan has seen a decline in black student enrollment since discontinuing their affirmative action program. Black enrollment is down 30 percent at undergraduate and law schools. 

Burglars usually break into homes to steal THINGS, but in this case, a man was after Shawndrea Smith’s two sons. Let’s just say that she wasn’t having it.

George Zimmerman, who was recently acquitted for the killing of Trayvon Martin, is back in jail after a dispute with his wife According to police in Lake Mary, Florida, Zimmerman is being detained by police after a domestic dispute involving his wife and father-in-law, Colin Morgan. “There was some kind of a domestic, we know […]

Donnie McClurkin says he was fired from a Washington, D.C. event celebrating the work of Martin Luther King this past weekend because of his views on homosexuality. McClurkin has been quoted claiming to have been cured of the “curse of homosexuality.

A Tennessee judge ordered a mother to change her child’s name from Messiah to Martin. She was in court for a dispute with the baby’s father over the child’s last name. But Judge Lu Ann Ballew took issue with the first name as well, asserting that Messiah is “a title that has only been earned […]

Don Lemon has come under fire for expressing agreement with Bill O’Reilly’s controversial statements regarding crime in the Black community.

As the summer surge of gun violence continues in Chicago, the South Side’s St. Bernard Hospital is asking Chicagoans to donate blood. Crowded emergency rooms are making it harder and harder to treat patients; they say blood donations are desperately needed.

News has surfaced that two prisons in California illegally sterilized women inmates: “Prison doctors in California sterilized nearly 150 female inmates during the course of four years without ever obtaining proper approval from the state.”

At least 73 people were shot over Fourth of July weekend in Chicago.11 were killed, and at least 62 people wounded between Thursday and Sunday night.