According to breaking news by TMZ: William Balfour has been found GUILTY of murdering three members of Jennifer Hudson’s family. The verdict was handed down moments ago after two days of deliberations. Balfour was convicted of 1st degree murder in the deaths of Jennifer’s mom Darnell Donerson, her brother Jason Hudson, and nephew Julian King. Balfour was also convicted of home [...]

*House Democrats said Tuesday they will offer an amendment to push to overturn stand-your-ground self-defense laws in states like Florida. Florida’s law, which allows residents to use force in response to an attack without first having to retreat, has come under scrutiny after the nationally-polarizing death of teenager Trayvon Martin. George Zimmermann, a neighborhood watch volunteer, has been charged with [...]

*Friends, family and fans are mourning the sudden death of beloved football player Junior Seau who they say shined as a charity icon off of the field. The linebacker, who over the course of his 20-year career played for the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots and San Diego Chargers, took his life with a single gunshot to the chest at his home in Oceanside, Calif., [...]

*George Zimmerman is now in police custody and faces a second-degree murder charge, an official says. Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., has been charged with second-degree murder in the 17-year-old’s death. “Just moments ago that we spoke with Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the sweet parents of Trayvon,” [...]

Two lawyers representing George Zimmerman announced at a press conference in Sanford, FLA they are “ we’re withdrawing as counsel” and that Zimmerman “has not returned phone calls or text messages or emails, leading me to believe that I can’t go forward speaking to the public about George Zimmerman in this case as representing him because I’ve lost contact with him.” Other actions that led [...]

  Poor Wang in an effort to keep up with the latest in technology decided to sell his kidney for money to purchase the latest iPhone and iPad, reports say. Five people have been indicted in the case — they are charged with “intentional injury” after helping the teenager remove his kidney. Wang, a high school student, didn’t receive the bulk [...]

*For the third consecutive year, every single senior at Urban Prep Academy, the only all-black, all-male charter high school in Chicago, has been accepted to college, school officials announced. The academy also said that 83 percent of its first graduating class in 2010 has re-enrolled in a second year of college, a rebuttal to critics of the school who have [...]

*(Via ABC/Yahoo News) – The lead homicide investigator in the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin recommended that neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman be charged with manslaughter the night of the shooting, multiple sources told ABC News. But Sanford, Fla., Investigator Chris Serino was instructed to not press charges against Zimmerman because the state attorney’s office headed by Norman Wolfinger [...]

During a morning briefing at the White House, President Barack Obama was asked about the Trayvon Martin case that has become a nationwide conversation since he was gunned down on February 26th in Sanford, Florida. The President told reporters that he was aware of the case and is following it, saying: “This is a tragedy. I can only imagine what [...]

Circulating on Facebook, a picture of a bumper sticker, reading, “Don’t Re-Nig In 2012,” is making feverish rounds. While Obama’s iconic red, blue, and white logo is crossed out, the bumper sticker makes it very clear that Obama opposers are going above and beyond the idea of just being against Obama politically. More to the point, the word Re-nig, which, [...]

Martin was shot after returning home from a local convenience store, where he bought snacks including Skittles candy requested by his 13-year-old brother, Chad. According to the family’s lawyer Ben Crump, the family is calling for the Watch captain’s arrest, saying Martin was “on his way home and a Neighborhood Watch loose cannon shot and killed him.” The man in [...]

The HIV rate among black women living in some U.S. cities is the same rate as that of some African countries, according to a new multicenter study presented Thursday at the 19th Conference of Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. The jarring findings acknowledge that HIV is not an infection that has been eradicated, but one that has been somewhat forgotten, researchers [...]

*Tyler Perry did one of his own “Good Deed” by donating $98,000 to a pastor who has spent months occupying a Chicago rooftop in an effort to stop violence in a South Side neighborhood. After burying 10 young black men from his congregation in a year, , HuffPost Chicago blogger Hermene Hartman first reported. Living out of a tent since [...]