On Thursday Nike announced that it is severing ties with Minnesota Vikings running Adrian Peterson, who was suspended from the NFL after two separate allegations of child abuse emerged. “Adrian Peterson is no longer a Nike athlete,” said Nike in a statement viewed by USA Today. Nike originally suspended its relationship with the star running…

A live debate Thursday on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal turned nasty when a caller identifying himself as a California Republican called President Obama the n-word, the New York Daily News notes. During the open-phone-call portion of the show, Anthony from San Diego—as he identified himself—told his fellow Republicans not to rest on their midterm-election-victory laurels.   “I…

The 22-year-old woman who was abducted Sunday in Philadelphia as she walked home from visiting her godson was found safe less than 72 hours after she was taken, and the man who police said took her has been arrested. According to NBC 10, surveillance video captured the nighttime abduction of Carlesha Freeland-Gaither. Freeland-Gaither fought her…

On Tuesday, Utah Republican Mia Love made history by becoming the first black Republican woman elected to Congress after narrowly defeating Democrat Doug Owens 50 percent to 47 percent in a House race.  “This is a great night for our nation. It is especially a great night for Utah,” Love told supporters shortly after her…

Sudanese soldiers reportedly raped more than 200 women and girls in a North Darfur village during an eight-hour attack last week, according to AllAfrica.com. According to the website, on Friday morning a Sudanese military commander, stationed close to the village Tabit, said that one of his soldiers went missing Thursday evening. The commander then reportedly…

Two New York City police officers who reportedly punched a teen and then hit him in the face with a gun have been indicted by a grand jury and will be arraigned Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court, according to sources who spoke with the New York Post. The Post notes that on Aug. 29, officers…

A Detroit teen was brutally beaten by up to 12 students last Wednesday for his $130 Nike Air Force 1 sneakers, commonly referred to as “Uptowns.” According to the Detroit Free Press, some older students at Allen Academy tried to take 16-year-old Willie Wallace’s sneakers sometime last month. Those students and Willie were suspended over…

Sometime last year, a Memphis, Tenn., woman drove up to a Goodwill and hopped out of a car. A videotape from the store shows the woman unloading items from her trunk into a cart with the help of a man believed to be a Goodwill employee. The man then rolls the cart inside the store…

A former FBI agent was paid $157,000 to oversee security efforts at Alabama’s Huntsville City Schools, including monitoring the social media activity of students, an effort that critics argue unjustly targeted African Americans. The spying on social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter led to 14 expulsions—12 of them of African-American students—last school year.  According…

Florida Navy veteran Kendrick Taylor was headed to the gym when he heard a 76-year-old woman screaming for help in the Winn-Dixie parking lot. The woman was being robbed, and Taylor and several other good Samaritans rushed to her aid last week in Orange County, Fla., without any regard for their own safety.  “What if…