We have yet to check with our editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., but according to New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith’s Instagram page, Black Friday is historically linked to slavery. On Tuesday evening, Smith posted the following message linking the biggest shopping day of the year with a “historical” factoid claiming that the day after…

A car that drove into a group of protesters Tuesday afternoon in Minneapolis hit several people who were rallying for justice for Michael Brown a day after a St. Louis grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Brown. According to video taken by helicopter for news station KSTP, a vehicle…

Being a police officer was the job of his life. He thought that he would work for 30 years and then make sergeant and then retire. But Aug. 9 changed all of that for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown. In the second installment of an hour-and-a-half…

The second day of protests continued in Ferguson, Mo., as police arrested some 44 people, but authorities considered Tuesday’s protests to be more calm overall, and attributed that to the some 2,000 National Guard troops deployed to the St. Louis suburb. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar noted…

For the first time since the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown pushed the name “Darren Wilson” into the national consciousness, America got to hear the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who fatally shot the unarmed teen speak. From a secret location and only a day after a St. Louis grand jury decided not to charge…

Shortly after Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced that a St. Louis grand jury would not be charging Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown, chaos erupted. Reports of gunfire in and around Ferguson permeated the news as several police cars and buildings along West Florissant Avenue, the main…

After months of pouring over evidence, a St. Louis County grand jury has decided that Ferguson, Mo., Officer Darren Wilson will face no criminal charges in the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown. According to Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, the 12-person grand jury, including nine whites and three African Americans, that met…

Marshawn Lynch still isn’t talking. Well sort of. After being fined $100,000 for refusing to do an interview, the Seattle Seahawks running back said only 55 words to answer 22 questions following Sunday’s 19-3 win over the Arizona Cardinals. He won’t talk about his back or dancing with the cheerleaders, but he will talk about…

While the world awaits the Ferguson, Mo., grand jury decision as to whether police Officer Darren Wilson will be charged in the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, CNN’s Reliable Sources reports that several prominent news anchors have met in private with Wilson in hopes of securing the controversial officer’s first on-air interview. According to…

It looks like evidence used by the Ferguson, Mo., grand jury to decide whether to criminally charge Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown may not be made public, according to a St. Louis County Circuit Court official, Yahoo News reports. Under normal circumstances, grand jury evidence remains sealed after…