A sign for the University of Missouri’s Gaines-Oldham Black Culture Center was vandalized early Thursday morning, apparently the latest tinder cast to the flames as the school continues to grapple with racial threats since the ousting of President Tim Wolfe, the Los Angeles Times reports.  The sign in front of the center was reportedly spray-painted…

University of Missouri campus police have arrested a 19-year-old suspect on charges of making a “terrorist threat” to black students on campus via social media, the university announced on Wednesday, USA Today reports. The white suspect, identified as Hunter Park, was arrested at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, where he is a student.…

A Louisiana judge has ordered two officers charged in the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy to be held on $1 million bond, a lawyer for the boy’s father told the Associated Press.  Mark Jeansonne, the attorney for Chris Few—who is still hospitalized after being shot in the head—said that police body-camera video shows that…

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned Monday morning amid racial controversy in which students and faculty staged walkouts and hunger strikes to bring attention to the issue.  “I take full responsibility for this frustration, and I take full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred,” Wolfe said in a press conference announcing his resignation.…

The U.S. Supreme Court will be looking into racial prejudice in jury selection Monday, with the justices considering a case of a black teenager who was sentenced to death by an all-white jury in Georgia, The Guardian reports.  According to the report, lawyers bringing forth the appeal on behalf of Timothy Foster, who admitted to…

A black Multnomah County, Ore., sheriff’s deputy is filing a discrimination lawsuit against a local restaurant after, he says, he was made to prepay for his meal even though white customers were not asked to do the same, The Oregonian reports.  Brian Eason has filed a $100,000 discrimination suit against a Vancouver, Wash., Elmer’s Restaurant…

Racial disparities in medical care, with black patients often receiving substandard care in comparison with their white counterparts, are not a new discovery.  However, in what NBC News is describing as the largest study to look at the disparities in breast-cancer tratement in the U.S. (just in time for Pinktober), it is all but confirmed…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has come under harsh criticism after he suggested that he would fight a gunman and “not just stand there and let him shoot me,” a seemingly dismissive response to the recent mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. Now Carson is backing up his supposed bravado, recounting, on Wednesday…

After the horrific mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson posted a photo of himself holding up a sign reading “I am a Christian,” which promptly went viral.  The shooter, who killed nine people, was reported to have targeted Christians, allegedly asking students to identify their religion before…