Trayvon Martin will get a posthumous Bachelor of Science Degree in Aviation from a South Florida University. The honor will be given to his parents five years after the African American teenager was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford. Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin will accept the degree at the May 13th commencement ceremony of Florida Memorial University. Fulton graduated from the Miami Gardens college and her son had taken aviation cou

The chief White House usher is out of a job. Reports say Angella Reid was fired. Reid was the first woman and the second African American to hold the job. No reason has been given for Reid's ouster. She took the job in 2011 during the Obama administration. The chief usher oversees all activities in the White House residence. Read more via The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/05/white-house-fires-its-chief-usher-the-first-woman-i

Congresswomen are lining up their support for an American University sorority that was the focus of a hate crime. Democratic Congresswoman Alma Adams of North Carolina said she supports student government president Taylor Dumpson. Alpha Kappa Alpha held a rally yesterday outside the Capitol building, attended by several prominent African-American congresswomen. Bananas hanging from nooses were found around the American campus on Monday, targeting AKA and Dumpson, the fir

An autopsy shows a black man killed by police in North Carolina was shot once in the back. The deadly shooting of Keith Lamont Scott last month sparked nights of protests and unrest in Charlotte. The "Washington Post" reports that the autopsy commissioned by Scott's family showed that he was hit by four bullets. The shots that killed him were one to the abdomen and another to the back. Another two shots hit him near his left hand. Police claim Scott was armed with a gun when

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says athletes kneeling during the national anthem is "dumb and disrespectful." Ginsburg tells Yahoo News' Katie Couric "it's a terrible thing to do," but she wouldn't arrest anyone for doing it. San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick has knelt for the anthem since the beginning of the NFL preseason in protest to police misconduct and racial inequality. Several athletes across the sports world have followed suit. Th

The San Francisco Superior Court Bench has its first woman African-American presiding judge. Judge Teri L. Jackson ran unopposed for the two-year term. Jackson said in a statement that she and the other Superior Court judges "share a commitment to assure that all San Franciscans are served justly and fairly" in the justice system. Jackson's term will begin January 1st. #SanFranciscoSuperiorCourt #JudgeTeriLJackson #BlackNews #AfricanAmericanNews

Donald Trump says he wants the votes of all African-Americans, despite his dismal performance with the group in early opinion surveys. The GOP nominee is arguing at a rally in Wisconsin that his rival, Hillary Clinton, and other Democrats pander to communities of color. Trump says "we reject the bigotry" of the Clinton campaign, which he says talks down to minority groups and only sees African-Americans as votes. Clinton is much more popular among black voters than Trump, who