"I saw the weapon in his hands coming out of his waistband and the threat to my partner and myself was real and active."
CNN is under fire for victim shaming Freddie Gray in the wake of the first of six officers' trials for the 25-year-old's death.
Bishop George Bloomer of Bethel Family Worship Center in Durham, North Carolina arrived at Monday’s meeting with Donald Trump with great skepticism about the outcome, especially on issues of race, he told The Associated Press. When he got a chance to address Trump, he was fairly direct in his questioning. “I asked him: ‘Are you a […]
Coreco JaQuan Pearson, the 13-year-old who caught political attention for criticizing President Barack Obama and standing behind Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign has changed his tune, making the decision to abandon the GOP party. In letters to CNN and The Washington Post over the holidays, the outspoken teen explained he didn’t want to be remembered as the […]
During a pre-Thanksgiving segment on Fox & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade surprised his co-host Harris Faulkner when he asked her if she served Kool-Aid with her meals.
Six men and a woman were accused of producing and distributing nearly 10,800 “2 Ride” passes in violation of policy for Tulsa City Transit. The workers, however, were simply doing as they were told by supervisors, their lawyer says.
The future police chief of a town in Pennsylvania has issued an apology for using the n-word in an email.
Two unidentified students confessed to drawing swastikas and “White Power” on cars at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. According to WoodTV, the incident happened Sunday evening and the words were drawn on six snow-covered cars on campus. Calvin College President Michael Le Roy alerted students of the incident the following day, calling it a […]
Police officer Jason Van Dyke, who is White, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday morning and "will be the first on-duty Chicago police officer to be charged with that crime," the report says.
"A group of White supremacists showed up at the protest, as they have done most nights," Miski Noor, a media contact for Black Lives Matter told the Star Tribune.
Davis, who has been on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter movement for some time, understands that Jordan is just one story of many in America. For him, the most immediate change can come on Black Friday, the third anniversary of Jordan's death.
In I-am-sad-to-even-have-to-write-about-this-today reporting, a Kenyan blogger wrote a post about how natural hair is ugly.
