Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect Tim Wolfe’s resignation. University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe announced his resignation during a press conference Monday morning amid growing outrage over his handling of racial matters on campus. “Please, please use my resignation to heal, not to hate,” he said. The story garnered national attention…

In October, James Moss moved to Denver from New York with his 1-year-old son, Zhi, in search of a better life. A friend offered him a place to stay and a job opportunity, but shortly after they arrived, things took a turn and both his housing and job were gone. “It seemed like everything I was trying…

An Arizona Native American leader who has been adamant about his efforts to have the Washington Redskins’ name changed because it’s offensive to American Indians posted a photo of himself in blackface dressed as Bob Marley. According to the New York Post, Terry Rambler, chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, posted the…

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson’s campaign admits that the former neurosurgeon never received a full-scholarship offer to attend the prestigious U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a claim that Carson wrote about in his autobiography, Gifted Hands. According to Politico, in the book Carson says he was offered and subsequently turned down a full scholarship…

A Philadelphia woman who kept mentally disabled adults locked in the basement of her home so that she could collect and cash their disability checks was sentenced to life plus 80 years in prison Thursday. Linda Weston, 55, pleaded guilty in September to all 196 counts against her, which included kidnapping, racketeering, conspiracy and murder…

Chicago police now believe that a 9-year-old boy who was shot and killed earlier this week was lured into an alley by a gang because of his father’s relationship with a rival gang. “Tyshawn Lee was murdered in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I’ve witnessed in 35 years of policing,” Chicago Police…

More than 1,500 Berkeley High students staged a protest after a Web page made to look like the school’s home page made references to the Ku Klux Klan and included racial slurs and threats against black students, including a note reading, “Public lynching December 9th 2015.” According to the Contra Costa Times, students at the…

La’Darious Wylie, 11, and his sister Sha’Vonta, 7, were waiting for a school bus near their Chester, S.C., home Oct. 27 when a car veered off the road. La’Darious pushed his sister out of the way and was struck by the car. La’Darious was rushed to a local hospital, where he died the next day…

A 27-year-old Virginia teacher was found unconscious in handcuffs and was later pronounced dead after special police—a private security detail with arrest powers—for a Washington, D.C., apartment complex placed the man in custody. Alonzo Smith was not breathing when D.C.’s Metropolitan Police arrived at the Marbury Plaza Apartments around 4 a.m. Sunday. Special police officers…

Turns out that the Illinois police officer who claimed that he was in pursuit of three suspects before he was found shot and killed staged the scene to look like murder, and police officials are now stating that it was a “carefully staged suicide,” according to NBC News Chicago. When the Sept. 1 shooting was…