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Davion Navar Henry Only is 15 years old. While most teens his age desire the next “it” item, he just wants a family. So on Sunday, his case worker drove him to a local church in St. Petersburg in hopes of finding him one.

According to The U.S. Labor Department, new weekly claims for unemployment benefits jumped by 66,000 to 374,000 last week, the highest in six months. One-fourth of the new claims were due to private-sector workers filing for unemployment in result of the government shutdown.

More than 50 Head Start programs were forced to shut their doors on October 1 as a result of the government shutdown. But two philanthropists have donated $10 million to keep the nation’s Head Start programs running.

A University of Maryland professor discovered some shocking statistics about the practices of black runners. Rashawn Ray, Ph.D found that black men are less likely to run outside if they live in a predominantly white neighborhood.

Despite right-wing opposition, black youth have a chance to change the course of history by mobilizing our communities to enroll in the new Affordable Care Act’s healthcare insurance marketplace. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obamacare,” offers health insurance to more than 40 million people for the first time.

Allen West says he’s never experienced racial profiling because he was a “respectful young man, and maybe that’s something that was missing out of President Obama and Trayvon Martin’s life.”

Founded by Rev. John Guns, Operation Save Our Sons aims to partner with nonprofits, schools, and police to teach young black men how to respond when confronted by police or others: “If Martin had been taught to call his father ‘a few doors away’ that night instead of getting into a confrontation with Zimmerman, his death might have been avoided, the Rev. John Guns said.”

The entire city of Boston is on lockdown and both an MIT police officer and one of the Boston bombing suspects are dead after a horrific night of shootouts, explosions, and high speed car chases. The suspects were reportedly brothers; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is still at large. The craziness began last night after a robbery […]

A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in a small Texas town has left an unknown number of people dead and dozens injured, and leveled homes and buildings blocks away. The explosion occurred around 8pm in a community near Waco, TX. According to CBS, the explosion could be heard 45 miles away. While its still unknown exactly […]

The California prison system is under fire for their race-based system of segregation. Prison officials say the system is necessary to deal with race-based violence; opponents argue there’s no excuse for racial segregation of ANY kind.

The identity of a 4 year-old girl abandoned on a stranger’s doorstep has been solved, due in large part to social media. Over 2 million people re-posted photos of the little girl, eventually leading to a tip that identified her as Zoe Brown.

Four year-old Rahquel Carr was shot and killed while sitting in a car outside her grandfather’s home in Miami. Rahquel was sitting in the vehicle with at least two other children. Investigators are currently trying to determine if one of the other children shot her.