After images surfaced online of eight students at The Citadel wearing what appears to be KKK hoods, officials at the renowned public military college in Charleston, South Carolina suspended the students and launched a probe, according to CNN and The New York Times. Citadel students wear pillowcases, claim they were performing as “Ghosts of Christmas Past": […]
During a hearing for an affirmative action case on Wednesday, conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that some African-Americans belong at "lesser colleges."
The significance of the 13th Amendment anniversary -- which abolished slavery in most states -- is not lost on us, as we watch the first African-American president deliver these moving remarks.
Knollenberg said he didn't intend to offend anyone with his comments. He also suggested he wasn't racist because he had a Black employee.
The expert also found that the 12-year-old's toy gun was not visible to either Loehmann or his partner, Frank Garmback, the report notes. And contrary to findings by experts hired by the lawyers for the police department, Loehmann shot Tamir less than a second after exiting the patrol car, not 1.7 seconds.
Johnson, 25, was fatally shot by Officer George Hernandez eight days before the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
"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 […]
The future police chief of a town in Pennsylvania has issued an apology for using the n-word in an email.
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.
