Ciare Mckenzie took her 6-year-old child to Bancroft Elementary in Minneapolis, and twice, the school placed her daughter on the wrong bus home. According to Fox 9, on Wednesday Jomyra Mckenzie was placed on a bus that dropped her at the corner of 37th and Snelling when she was supposed to have been dropped off at…

On July 13, 2013, 33-year-old Jermaine McBean had just purchased a BB gun from a Florida store and was headed home when police spotted him. Police say McBean ignored their orders to drop the weapon, so they fired shots, killing the information-technology specialist. A nurse on the scene that day says that police stopped her…

An emotional Tracy Morgan spoke with Today’s Matt Lauer for the first time since a 2014 accident in which, police say, the driver of a Wal-Mart delivery truck didn’t see slow-moving traffic and crashed into the back of Morgan’s limousine. The accident, which happened on the New Jersey Turnpike as Morgan and friends were returning…

Natalie Carson doesn’t want to spend another birthday alone. So the Westminster, Colo., 19-year-old posted an ad on Craigslist saying that she was willing to rent a family so that maybe this birthday would be more memorable. “I am not a weirdo or anything I was just inspired by another girl that rented a family…

Charnice Milton, 27, was born in Southeast Washington, D.C., an area plagued by crime and poverty. She would go on to graduate from Ball State University and earn a master’s degree from Syracuse. She wanted to make a difference in her community, so she returned home to take a job with a local newspaper. “She…

Three of the Baltimore officers arrested and charged with various crimes in the death of Freddie Gray are seen in a new video walking from the police van into the jail without handcuffs. According to the Baltimore Sun, the three officers—Caesar R. Goodson Jr., William G. Porter and Edward M. Nero, who all surrendered May…

As it now stands, police departments and the black community may as well be on polar opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to building an effective relationship against the backdrop of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. But that didn’t stop the Chicago Police Department from trying. On Friday it held its first “Daddy Daughter Dance”…

Updated Tuesday, May 26, 5:45 p.m. EDT: Specifics of the agreement between the Department of Justice and the city of Cleveland over abusive and excessive use of force by police have been released, according to Yahoo News, and they include a substantial overhaul of police procedures and policies. An independent monitor will oversee changes in…

A mural of Assata Shakur has been removed from Marquette University after a professor noticed it on the school’s Facebook page. Suspended professor John McAdams contacted the school Monday after noticing the mural with the Shakur quote, “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them,” on the student union’s…

A Prince George’s County, Md., substitute teacher has been suspended after video footage appeared on WorldStarHipHop that shows the teacher beating students with a belt. On May 15 a student at Gwynn Park Middle School in Brandywine, Md., recorded footage that appears to show a substitute teacher striking several students with a belt while other…