The Black Informant | African American Commentary, News and Community Building

In our country the term “right” is a powerful thing. If something is a right, then it is the whole purpose of our country–of any decent country–to protect it. In that case, the definition of rights matters very much. To help us understand the foundation of our rights, we should consider what is said in [...]

LA CROSSE, Wis. — A man told police he kept his mother’s corpse in a basement freezer for more than four years while he collected her Social Security checks, authorities said Monday. A body was found encased in ice, in a sitting position.
Philip Schuth, 52, told police his elderly mother, Edith, died of natural causes [...]

Teron, a seventh-grader at Community School 4, was taken to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center on Monday complaining of a severe headache and toothache. The family said doctors conducted a CAT-scan and told relatives that an infection had spread to his brain.
After Teron went into convulsions and became unconscious, he was hooked up to a respirator and [...]