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Pierce did tell the police that he followed the group to their hotel room, but was grabbed by the accuser and two friends who attempted to "pull him in as he was trying to get away."
Kevin Edwards, an accomplice in the death of nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee, has been captured.
Police say Tyshawn's shooting resulted from a bloody conflict involving rival factions of two of Chicago's oldest gangs--the Gangster Disciples and the Black P Stones.
A federal court orders Cleveland, Mississippi to desegregate its secondary schools. The judge approved a Justice Department plan to consolidate the middle and high schools.
Pastor Jordan Brown, founder of the Church of Open Doors in Austin, said in a statement that the grocery chain "did nothing wrong. I was wrong to pursue this matter and use the media to perpetuate this story.”
The police said missing Columbia University student Nayla Kidd apparently changed her cell phone number and bank account. Kidd's distressed family said it's unlike her to miss final exams and not contact her mother.
For the first time in 132 years, Morehouse College has thee valedictorians. Each graduate earned a perfect 4.0 GPA, and one of them is White.
Alpha Delta Pi sorority at Samford University defied authorities to print racially insensitive images on T-shirts. Social officials apologized to the school's community and launched an investigation.
If the allegations are true, the victims are likely in need of intensive therapy Terrie M. Williams, a mental health expert and author of Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting tells NewsOne. And if the allegations are true, Bambaataa, a founder of the hip hop movement who mentored scores of young men, is likely in need of intensive therapy himself, Williams says.
Plus, an Alabama sorority is in trouble for creating t-shirts with racist slave imagery and veteran actor John Amos doesn't think people are interested in a "Roots" remake.
A young man who tried to escape violence in Chicago was tragically shot dead. Lee McCollum was featured in the CNN documentary 'Chicagoland,' and had a promising future.
NewsOne decided to take a trip back in time to explore what happened the day America bombed its own people.
