A black firefighter who endured countless racial jokes and racist slurs over his nearly 30-year career with the Los Angeles Fire Department was awarded $1.1 million by a jury on Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. It took the jury 16 days to decide in favor of Jabari S. Jumaane, who had filed charges against…

From now until the end of the president’s term, the race to see who gets the rights to build the presidential library and museum on a college campus is going to be intense, even if that day is still more than three years away. Early money has the University of Chicago leading the pack, since…

A Chicago police officer has been indicted for the shooting death of Rekia Boyd, an unarmed 22-year-old woman who was shot in 2012 while she and her friends were leaving a party, DNAinfo Chicago reports. Officer Dante Servin, 45, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, reckless discharge of a firearm and reckless conduct. Servin was…

A search of George Zimmerman’s girlfriend’s home turned up multiple weapons and more than 100 rounds of ammunition, according to court documents filed Monday, CNN reports. Zimmerman was arrested last week at the home after a domestic dispute in which it was alleged that he pointed a shotgun at his girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe. He was…

Military brides called Ephonia Green the “fairy godmother” for her generous donations of wedding gowns. Green was moved by their service, she claimed, and gave away some 275 dresses from her Maryland bridal business. On Monday, Green is scheduled to appear before the U.S. District Court in one of the largest cases of embezzlement from a…

While the majority of stars at the American Music Awards use their acceptance speeches to thank all the little people who got them there, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis used their moment to preach tolerance. Having won the award for favorite rap/hip hop album, Macklemore (whose real name is Ben Haggerty) quoted Martin Luther King Jr.…

In one of his first interviews since being released from prison for the death of Michael Jackson, Conrad Murray spoke with London’s Daily Mail and claimed that Jackson was a drug addict and that “Michael Jackson accidentally killed Michael Jackson,” Murray said. In a vividly detailed interview with the Mail, Murray, 60, who served as…

San Jose State University’s president announced that a fourth student has been suspended in connection with alleged hate crimes against a black student, and the NAACP wants all involved charged with felonies, the Associated Press reports. Civil right activists are demanding Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen file hate-crime charges against the four white…

Retha Powers used to dream in quotes. It wasn’t always this way, but after the publishing house Little, Brown and Co. approached the author about compiling and editing a reference volume that chronicles black life through quotations from early Egyptians right up to Cory Booker, the words became a part of her. “There was a…