Never one to shy away from the spotlight, a big moment or a microphone, the Seattle Seahawks’ outspoken cornerback, Richard Sherman, was supposed to be talking about the upcoming game against Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers, but he took the moment to address the Black Lives Matter movement. According to ESPN, Sherman started…

Carey Gabay, an attorney for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration who was shot in the head last week as he ducked for cover during a gang shootout at an early-morning West Indian American Day Parade celebration, died Wednesday evening. Gabay, 43, had been in critical condition since being hit by a stray bullet in…

The photo of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed is jarring. The slender Muslim teen is wearing a NASA T-shirt, glasses and a confused look on his face. He is also wearing handcuffs; a police officer stands in the background. Ahmed’s charge: being smarter than the small-mindedness displayed by those at an Irving, Texas, high school who saw…

It wasn’t the first time that Payton Head had been called “n—ger” on the University of Missouri campus, but this time he figured he was going to do something about it. So the senior and president of the Missouri Students Association took to his Facebook page to vent about the most recent event during which…

On Thursday, Wisconsin teens Keller McQuay and his girlfriend, Vista Jackson, were inside Keller’s Racine home when a sawed-off shotgun discharged. Keller reportedly ran from the home saying, “Oh my God, I just shot Vista.” On Monday, Keller, 14, was charged as an adult in the shooting death of Vista, also 14. According to WMTV,…

The Bernard Scott story is a convoluted tale of traffic fines, a stay in a holding cell, an emergency room visit reportedly canceled by police officials and a reported hanging. Let’s start at the beginning. Scott, 44, was arrested in September 2014 and taken to the Pine Lawn, Mo., jail in St. Louis County, where…

When Raleigh, N.C., Police Officer J.D. Boyd and Cory Sanders first met Oct. 25, 2014, it wasn’t pleasant. The officer was trying to stop a domestic disturbance between Sanders and his girlfriend. Sanders reportedly tried to stab Boyd during an altercation, and the officer said he came close to shooting Sanders. Luckily for both of…

A stunned Serena Williams quickly ran off the court after her dreams of pulling off a calendar-year grand slam—a feat that hasn’t been accomplished since Steffi Graf in 1988—were dashed when Williams was bounced from the U.S. Open Friday by a 300-1 underdog. According to NBC News, little-known Roberta Vinci, 32, an unseeded Italian ranked No.…

The Minneapolis school board paid for a series of books that it hoped would be part of a new reading curriculum for kids. But many teachers were shocked to find books rife with stereotypes, including a drawing of a black girl called “Lazy Lucy” and Kenyans being described as being able to “run very fast.”…

Patrick Tomkins, 43, was arrested at his Iowa home Sunday after he reportedly approached several African-American girls at a school playground and began calling them racial slurs, asking if they wanted to fight and holding himself. According to the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Tomkins told police that Saturday’s reported incident at Prescott Elementary School took place…