Trayon Christian, the young black man who was arrested in 2013 for “shopping while black” at a Barneys New York store has reached a $45,000 settlement with the city, the New York Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, police stopped Christian on April 27, 2013, after he purchased a $349 reversible black-and-white Salvatore…

Hours before Sarah Palin would endorse Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump for president, charges were filed against her oldest son, Track Palin, for a violent domestic dispute. Palin, 26, was arrested Monday for reportedly punching his girlfriend in the face and threatening to shoot himself with an assault rifle. On Tuesday, Palin was charged with…

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain claims that the “Trump phenomenon” is so powerful that black women are leaving the Democratic Party to support Donald Trump, a current Republican presidential candidate. “And let me tell you a phenomenon that I discovered on my radio show. I get callers who call up and say, ‘I am…

The family of 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen is left with many questions and few answers after the teen was found unresponsive at a Kentucky juvenile-detention center. According to CBS News, McMillen was found the morning of Jan. 11 at the Lincoln Valley Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, Ky. But state and local officials have been…

Ishmael Gilbert had only been working at the Glendale, Ind., Target for a few days when an elderly woman approached his checkout line to purchase her items. The 19-year-old rang up her items and then learned that she would be paying for them in coins. “She was all worked up because the line was getting…

Update: 1/17/16 at 12:37pm. ESPN’s NFL Countdown reports that Demaryius Thomas’ mother will be in the stands in Denver today to see her son play for the first time in his professional football career. After her release from a halfway house in Atlanta, Katina Smith was allowed to travel to see the Broncos take on…

Five teenagers who were arrested and charged as adults in the alleged gang rape of an 18-year-old woman in a Brooklyn, N.Y., park have been released from jail. “Because we are determined to get to the truth about what happened in that park, we need more time to investigate this complex case and gather more…

Residents in Whitesboro, N.Y., voted overwhelmingly to keep the town emblem, which appears to depict a white man choking a Native American man. According to the New York Times, some residents have balked at the image for over four decades, but very little has been done—and that tradition continued after a viral push to remove…

Lawrence Phillips, the college football standout whose life was littered with highlight, jaw-dropping, on-the-field runs and checkered with off-the-field issues, was found dead in his cell at California’s Kern Valley State Prison early Wednesday, according to USA Today. Phillips’ death was being investigated as a suicide, according to a press release from the California Department…