The Columbia Journalism Review blog Darts & Laurels has named CNN’s Don Lemon one of the worst journalists of 2014. Lemon, who saw this year become a series of flubs and bad sound bites, can do nothing but grow from this experience, since he can’t do much worse. According to the blog, which announced winners of the “Darts”…

Consider it a Christmas miracle. Two Philadelphia transit cops hoping for a quiet Christmas night got nothing of the sort, considering that by the end of their shift, they had helped deliver a baby on a subway train.   SEPTA Police Sgt. Daniel Caban and Officer Darrell James got a call around 5:50 p.m. that a…

A Howard University running back, who returned to his Texas home while on holiday break, was shot and killed along with an 18-year-old man after the two men and an accomplice reportedly attempted to rob an apartment. According to the Denton Record-Chronicle, Howard running back Terrence Neal Tusan, 22; Jakobi Dmon Gipson, 18; and another…

Since the fatal shootings of two New York City police officers Saturday, Reuters reports that the New York City Police Department has arrested six people on charges they threatened police officers. According to the news site, Tyrone Melville, 41, of Manhattan, was arrested Wednesday after he reportedly called a police station asking to speak to…

Updated Fri., Dec. 26, 12:20 p.m. EST: The body of Jayden Morrison, the 4-year-old autistic boy who went missing Christmas Eve after his family drove from New York to visit with his grandmother in South Carolina, has been found in a pond in Horry County, according to police officials who spoke with Newsday. Emergency workers and…

On Monday Eric Garner’s daughter, Emerald Garner, visited the memorial for two New York City police officers who were killed Saturday. Emerald Garner laid a wreath at the makeshift site for officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, who were fatally shot by lone gunman Ismaaiyl Brinsley while sitting in their patrol car. Brinsley committed suicide…

An auxiliary officer outside Cleveland who apparently spent a lot of his time watching YouTube videos—usually involving blacks and law enforcement—has resigned from the force after the Cleveland Scene exposed the officer’s offerings in the video website’s comments sections, where he frequently referred to blacks as “spooks” and “n—gers” and, in one comment posted in…

Last week video surfaced of a plainclothes New York police officer punching a boy while other officers attempted to handcuff him, and now, according to news reports, that officer has been suspended. According to CBS New York, the incident occurred Monday shortly after school let out. Police were responding to a report of a person…

With the country still on its heels from the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of white police officers, video has surfaced of a reportedly 12-year-old boy being punched by a New York City Police Department plainclothes officer as three uniformed cops attempt to arrest him, the New York Daily News reports.…

On Wednesday President Obama announced that he was easing some of the United States’ 50-year restrictions against Cuba, and shortly after that announcement, the focus for some people shifted to what a new Cuba-U.S. relationship might mean for Assata Shakur. Shakur, who has become a kind of vigilante folk hero in the black community, was…