Seniors at Berkeley High School in California were shocked and insulted when they got their yearbooks and saw that students in the AMPS program—the Academy of Medicine and Public Service—were described as future “trash collators.” The word “innovators” had been replaced, NBC Bay Area reports. Robael Gizachew, a senior at the school, said he definitely thinks…

This isn’t David Eric Casebolt’s first rodeo with regard to accusations of harboring racial biases and exerting excessive force with African Americans.  Casebolt—the McKinney, Texas, police corporal who was initially suspended, and then resigned, after a video went viral showing him violently shoving a teenage girl to the ground after a pool party—was sued back in…

Dajerria Becton, the 15-year-old McKinney, Texas, teenager who was slammed to the ground by a police officer while attending a pool party, is speaking out about the horrifying ordeal, describing how she wants the officer’s punishment to be severe, Fox 4 News reports. “He grabbed me, twisted my arm on my back and shoved me in the…

Elizabeth Ballinger, the 17-year-old who was viciously jumped by at least four other girls inside a Brooklyn, N.Y., McDonald’s in May, was arrested Saturday, accused of carrying two guns, the Nw York Daily News reports. The May assault—in which Ballinger was repeatedly pummeled, punched and kicked by her attackers while a crowd of several dozen…

A 25-year-old woman fought off a man who followed her into her New York City apartment early Saturday morning and tried to rape her, the New York Daily News reports. The man made it into the foyer of the woman’s apartment and tried to sexually assault her, but she resisted, authorities say. Video surveillance captured…

The body of Timothy Hamlett—the 20-year-old college junior who was reported missing in December—has been found in New York City’s Hudson River, the New York Daily News reports. Officials have ruled his death a suicide. Hamlett was a student-athlete at the University of Pennsylvania on the school’s track team. His parents reported him missing after…

Every single public school student in Baltimore will be offered free breakfast and lunch at school regardless of whether a student comes from a low-, middle- or upper-income family, the Baltimore Sun reports. The initiative is part of a federal program that did away with how public school districts would have some students—those from lower-income…

The drug aptly dubbed “female Viagra,” which will reportedly help women ramp up their sexual drive, may have inched its way closer to the marketplace. An advisory committee voted Thursday to recommend to the Food and Drug Administration that the drug be approved, the Washington Post reports. The FDA sometimes heeds the recommendations given it…

Four former CVS employees—all of them African American—are suing the pharmacy chain because they say they were forced to racially profile customers as a way of preventing shoplifting, the New York Daily News reports. The employees also claim that they themselves were harassed because they are black. In their lawsuit, the four—Sheree Steele, Kerth Polock,…