North Carolina police talked about what it was like capturing and arresting Dylann Roof, including how eerily calm and cooperative he was. And when Roof said that he was hungry, Shelby, N.C., police bought him food from a nearby Burger King, the Charlotte Observer reports.  Roof reportedly confessed to police that he was the gunman…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson wrote in a Monday USA Today op-ed that leaders ought to be clear in articulating that last week’s church massacre in Charleston, S.C., resulted from racism. To Carson, it’s clear that the gunman, Dylann Roof, was fueled by racial hatred because he is alleged to have uttered racially charged statements during the…

Editor’s note: After speaking with two members of Dylann Roof’s family, The Intercept, the outlet from which this piece obtained its information, can no longer stand by the premise of this story. Read The Intercept’s full retraction statement here. Dylann Roof’s hatred for black people—in horrific display during his shooting spree last week inside a historically black church—may…

Chris Singleton—a college student who lost his mother, the Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, in the Charleston, S.C., church massacre Wednesday—admitted that his knees were a little weak during a press conference Thursday, but he vowed to push on because his mom “was a God-fearing woman.” “We are mourning right now, but I know we’ll get through…

One woman coached the girls track team at a local high school. Another young man had just graduated from college last year and was thinking about pursuing a career in broadcast journalism. Another man was the consummate community leader, having met both President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of…

The members of a Maryland Girl Scouts troop—the Chesapeake Bay Troop 176—attended a public meeting of the Animal Care and Control Oversight Commission in Cecil County, Md., to protest the mistreatment of animals at a county animal-control facility. The Girl Scouts were allegedly told by a group of adults to “go back to Baltimore, where…

One reason Rachel Dolezal’s parents may have outed her as the white woman she is—since she’s been successfully masquerading as a black woman for years—is the role she may have played in her older brother’s standing trial in the sexual assault of a young black child, the Washington Post reports. Joshua Dolezal is Rachel Dolezal’s only…