For one Spring, Texas, family, the Fourth of July holiday weekend had barely started when they awoke to find racist and vulgar messages spray-painted on the family’s truck. “My black friend, he’s been here for two days,” Darren Franke told KHOU. “Me and him hung out in the yard and just mowed the grass and…

The son of a former New York City fire commissioner who resigned from his position with the city’s Fire Department after admitting to posting several bigoted and anti-Semitic tweets is set to rejoin the department, to the ire of some black firefighters. According to the New York Daily News, Joseph Cassano, 26, was still on…

Even after the South Carolina church massacre during which nine African-American worshippers were fatally shot, and the subsequent public outcry that the Confederate flag be removed from the Statehouse, a new CNN/ORC poll shows that public opinion on the flag has not changed in 15 years. According to the poll, most still believe that the…

On Saturday, John S. Williams Jr. and his children took a cab from Philadelphia to Uniontown, Pa., to surprise his fiancee, but the person who got the biggest surprise was the cabbie, who officials say had driven some 300 miles, only to be stiffed on the fare. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Williams, 35, told…

A historically black church located just outside Charleston, S.C., and which was burned to the ground 20 years ago by the Ku Klux Klan, was ablaze Tuesday evening. According to WACH Fox 57, the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, located in Greeleyville, S.C.—about an hour away from Charleston—burned well into the evening as two…

A viral video of a 17-year-old Philadelphia teenager being brutally beaten by a group of teens has led to the arrest of five people. According to ABC Action News, 18-year-old Jerome Baston and four teen boys were arrested after someone brought the video to the attention of Martin Luther King High School, where the victim is…

Baltimore County police fatally shot an unarmed black man after they were called to an Owings Mill, Md., home while responding to a domestic dispute. According to the Associated Press, Spencer Lee McCain, 41, was in a “defensive stance” when he was shot by police around 1 a.m. on Thursday, according to the police. Baltimore County…

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court voted today to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s (commonly referred to as Obamacare) premium subsidies, staving off for the second time in three years attempts by opponents of the health care act to have it abolished. According to ABC News, “The nation’s highest court ruled that critics’ reading…

Wednesday evening’s gathering was supposed to be a cordial reception at the White House to honor LGBT Pride Month. But CNN notes that the president was delivering an address about civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans when he was abruptly interrupted. The heckler was a Mexican transgender immigrant who repeatedly kept calling the president’s…

The Jackie Robinson West All Stars were the darlings of baseball in 2014 after the Chicago-based team stormed through the Little League World Series to score the U.S. championship title. But earlier this year, Little League International stripped the team of the title, claiming that boundary regulations had been violated because suburban kids were playing on the…