Former Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Brandon Boykin wants to make it clear that he doesn’t believe his ex-football coach is a racist; he just feels that he has trouble relating to men of “our culture.” Boykin explained to CSN Philly in a series of text messages that he wasn’t trying to call Chip Kelly a bigot,…

Dylann Storm Roof, the suspect in the Charleston, S.C., church massacre, pleaded not guilty Friday to 33 federal charges. Earlier this month, Roof was indicted on 33 counts, “including federal hate crime and firearms charges,” for the June 17 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine people dead, CNN reports. According to…

The former University of Cincinnati police officer who has been indicted for murder in the fatal shooting of Sam Dubose during a routine traffic stop has posted bail, and a union representative has filed a grievance demanding that he be reinstated with the school’s Police Department. Thomas Fehr, a representative of the Fraternal Order of…

An underage University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student reportedly drank at two local bars before getting behind the wheel and driving the wrong way on the interstate, causing a head-on collision that left three people dead, authorities said. Chandler Michael Kania has been charged with second-degree murder in the July 19 accident on…

Eight-year-old Zion Harvey of Owings Mill, Md., lost his hands and feet to a dangerous infection when he was just 2 years old. Now Zion is the youngest person to receive a dual hand transplant, and while there are several hurdles to cross before Zion gets the all-clear, doctors are hopeful that this will be…

Updated Wed., July 29, 3:15 p.m. EDT: Officer Ray Tensing is in custody and reportedly broke down in tears when he was notified that he was being charged with murder in the death of Samuel Dubose, according to his lawyer, Stew Mathews, NBC 12 reports.  Tensing reportedly turned himself in and will be arraigned Friday, according to…

In an attempt to dispel rumors that Sandra Bland was dead when she arrived at the Waller County jail, Texas officials released some three hours of footage showing the 28-year-old’s arrival at the jail. According to the Associated Press, rumors on social media have spread far and wide that Bland may have been dead when…

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts did not meet with the family of Freddie Gray after the 25-year-old’s death in police custody in April, a claim that he made on several occasions, according to the family’s attorney. According to the Baltimore Sun, once the Gray family’s attorney William H. Murphy Jr. found out that Batts…

On Saturday a black child’s birthday party in Douglasville, Ga., took a racist turn after, witnesses say, several men driving Confederate-flag-bearing pickup trucks interrupted the gathering and began yelling racial slurs and threats at the partygoers. “One had a gun, saying he was gonna kill the [racial slur],” Melissa Alford, who hosted the party at…

The principal of Teachers College Community School in West Harlem reportedly threw herself in front of an oncoming train after a whistleblower notified the New York City Department of Education that she had altered third-graders’ test scores. According to the New York Post, Jeanene Worrell-Breeden’s death April 17 came less than 24 hours after the…