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…

Former tennis superstar James Blake was standing outside his New York hotel Wednesday afternoon waiting for a car to take him to the U.S. Open when, he says, a white undercover cop slammed him to the ground. Blake, 35, once known for his blistering forehand and relentless play, told the New York Daily News that…

An Oregon police chief who was placed on administrative leave amid a racial controversy has resigned. He had reportedly made racist remarks on learning that a black woman threatened to file a discrimination lawsuit. According to KOIN 6, Clatskanie Police Chief Marvin Hoover had been on administrative leave since August after Officer Dustin Alex Stone,…