A Providence, R.I., police officer went into a local Dunkin’ Donuts Friday looking for a hot cup of coffee, but he claims he was given a hot cup of attitude and a social-justice hashtag on the side of his cup. According to ABC 6, the officer, who didn’t want to be named, says he was…

President Barack Obama has chosen Deputy Education Secretary John King Jr. to succeed Arne Duncan to oversee the Education Department. According to NBC New York, King, formerly New York State commissioner of education, was not nominated by the president for his new position, a move that would have required confirmation by the Republican-run Senate. Instead,…

Updated Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6 p.m. EDT: Dan Andriacco, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, issued a statement about the incident, noting that the girl is Asian, not white, as was reported by various media. The archdiocese also indicated that in addition to the African-American boy, a white boy was also suspended in the incident.…

Texas mom Roni Dean-Burren took to YouTube to call out book publishing giant McGraw-Hill after she opened her son’s World Geography textbook and noticed a slight change in history, ABC 13 reports. In the section titled, “Patterns of Immigration,” Dean-Burren noticed that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was considered immigration and that slaves were referred to as…

Phyllis McDole, the mother of a Delaware man in a wheelchair whose fatal shooting by police was captured on video, was arrested for allegedly beating a woman she believed called the police on her son, but according to police, the victim was not the 911 caller. Wilmington police fatally shot Jeremy McDole, 28, Sept. 23…

Members of the Sistahs on the Reading Edge book club, who were kicked off California’s Napa Valley Wine Train in August, have filed suit against the train’s owners, seeking $11 million in damages, charging that they were singled out because the majority of the group is black and that they were humiliated for supposedly “being too…

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Woman hired into a top-level position for a job with heavy racial focus is let go after people protest whether said woman is, in fact, being truthful about her race. On Thursday, Dartmouth announced that newly hired Native American Program Director Susan Taffe Reed, who claimed she was…

Updated Thursday, Oct. 1, 8:15 p.m. ET: According to USA Today, the suspected 26-year-old lone gunman was shot and killed by officers at Umpqua Community College. The suspect is believed to be a local man with family in the area, according to a federal law-enforcement official. CNN also reports that seven people were injured; earlier…

A Hartford, Conn., mother was arrested Tuesday after she reportedly left her 4-year-old daughter home alone while she was out performing sexual favors for money. Police have charged Shi’day Nicks, 22, with “risk of injury to a minor, reckless endangerment and leaving a child under 12 unsupervised,” the Hartford Courant reports. According to police documents…

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson took a moment Wednesday, while speaking at the University of New Hampshire, to make a joke about his childhood and the current state of police violence against black people. “Throwing rocks at cars, I really liked that,” Carson said, describing his childhood growing up in Detroit. “Sometimes the police would…