Two months after her death, a settlement has been reached for a South Carolina woman over her late husband’s ancestral land on Hilton Head Island amid a yearlong court battle over a housing developer’s attempts to build a neighborhood around Josephine Wright’s property. The settlement confirms that the Wright family owns the property in the...
In a swift move that has sent tremors through U.S. foreign relations in West Africa, Niger’s military junta has severed an agreement that allowed U.S. military personnel to operate in its country. The announcement, made by junta spokesperson Col. Amadou Abdramane in a televised address on March 16, was made days after an official visit...
The white president of historically Black university in Missouri placed on leave amid claims of harassment will keep his job after an independent investigation found no evidence he bullied a Black administrator who made the allegations against him before she committed suicide in January. Lincoln University President John Moseley returned to work March 15 after...
A little over a decade ago, a Philadelphia man was found guilty of a crime, despite his own doctor testifying that he was physically unable to carry out the shooting due to a serious injury to his pelvis. C.J. Rice received a 30- to 60-year prison sentence for a shooting in Philadelphia that left four...