As the black centerpiece in the vortex of "#OscarsSoWhite" controversy, host Chris Rock has tried to take on the lack of diversity issue at the 88th Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night in Hollywood, Los Angeles, but failed miserably.
The story so far: In January, when the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were announced and not a single nonwhite performer was recognized, a lot of people voiced their outrage about the omissions.
Comedian Chris Rock launched his return stint as Oscar host on Sunday by immediately and unabashedly confronting the racially charged elephant in the room - the furor over the all-white field of performers nominated for Hollywood's highest honors.
In a historic announcement, scientists said Thursday they have for the first time directly detected the existence of gravitational waves, which were predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
A grand jury in Cleveland in the U.S. state of Ohio on Monday acquitted a white police officer who shot and killed a 12-year-old black teenager last year.
Laquan McDonald's knife reflected the bright lights of the oncoming police SUVs. Officers jumped out with guns drawn, and the 17-year-old black teen angled his body away and started to move across the street.
Another black teenager was killed in the United States on Wednesday, 10 days after the first anniversary of death of Michael Brown, which caused massive protests in the country.
A state of emergency declared on Monday for the small Missouri town of Ferguson was still in effect for the area, where about 150 people have been arrested during protests to mark the anniversary of the police shooting of the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Ferguson unrest, trigger by the killing of a black teenager Michael Brown by a white police, another similar incident occurred in the northern Texas city of Arlington.
U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Monday that racism was still embedded in the United States.
The killing of nine African-Americans in a "hate crime" shooting Wednesday night mirrors the U.S. government's inaction on rampant gun violence as well as the growing racial hatred in the country.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed anger over a black church massacre in the southeastern U.S. city of Charleston and said the country has to face the fact that rampant gun violence only happens in the United States.
The white gunman suspected of killing nine African-Americans in a "hate crime" shooting in the southeastern U.S. city of Charleston, South Carolina, was caught on Thursday, law enforcement said.
U.S. space agency NASA said Thursday that its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope has discovered a remote galaxy that shines with the light of more than 300 trillion suns, making it the most luminous galaxy ever found.
"A person was jumping in and out of traffic," the dispatcher radioed. The description came in: black male, tan jacket and jeans.
After days of search, Indonesian navy divers have finally succeeded in retrieving the flight data recorder (FDR) of the crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in the Java Sea, shedding light on determining the cause of the fatal crash with 162 people onboard.
Indonesian divers have retrieved the flight data recorder of the crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in the Java Sea, chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency said on Monday.
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