On Nov. 2, 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer while he played with a toy gun in a park near his home. No officer was ever charged in the shooting, and on Wednesday, some 15 months after his death, Cleveland charged the Rice family $500 for Tamir’s final…

The Melton family delivered a healthy baby boy at a Tennessee hospital. Shortly after his birth, they believed, little Nate was taken for a routine evaluation that is done of all newborns. When the nurse returned to Jennifer Melton’s hospital room talking about surgery, the mom broke down crying hysterically. “The nurse started to mention…

Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit against Ferguson, Mo., after the City Council voted Tuesday to change the terms of a deal that would have brought sweeping changes to the city’s embattled Police Department. “The residents of Ferguson have waited nearly a year for their city…

A pizza delivery driver says that during a routine traffic stop, he was just trying to pull over in a safe spot when a Bladensburg, Md., police officer drew his gun and demanded that he get out of the car.   Christopher Jeffries, 25, captured the exchange between him and the Bladensburg police officer, which…

A 22-year-old Prince George’s County, Md., elementary school volunteer was arrested Friday for filming child pornography. On Wednesday the school’s principal was placed on paid administrative leave. According to ABC7, Deonte Carraway, who volunteered at Judge Sylvania W. Woods Elementary School in Glenarden, Md., is facing 10 counts of felony child pornography, sexual abuse of…

In 2008 the Rev. Al Sharpton had breakfast with then-Sen. Barack Obama. It was a historic meeting of the minds before the civil rights activist put his full support behind Obama’s push for president. On Wednesday morning, Sharpton dined with Bernie Sanders, another presidential hopeful, at Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem. And while Sharpton hasn’t publicly…

On Monday, Austin, Texas, police fatally shot a black teen who was reportedly naked and unarmed. According to The Statesman, police were called on a report of a man chasing someone through an apartment complex. When Police Officer Geoffrey Freeman, who is also black, arrived on the scene, he encountered 17-year-old David Joseph. Austin Police…

A Kentucky juvenile-justice commissioner and an employee who failed to carry out required bed checks at the Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center where a teenage girl was found unresponsive on Jan. 11 have been fired, CBS News reports. Bob Hayter, who had been commissioner of the state’s Department of Juvenile Justice since 2014, was fired…

Around 3 p.m. Monday, a cryptic message was left on the Facebook page of Ohio Black Lives Matter activist MarShawn M. McCarrel II: “My demons won today. I’m sorry.” Around 6 p.m. that day, McCarrel’s body was found outside the front door of the Ohio Statehouse, the Columbus Dispatch reports. It’s believed that McCarrel died…

The mother of Penn Hills, Pa., teen Isaiah Wooding said she cried when she saw video of students at Penn Hills High School bullying and kicking her 16-year-old, who has cerebral palsy. “How can kids be so cruel?” Margaret Wooding told WPXI. “I don’t want this to happen, not just to my child, but to…