A former Columbus, Miss., police officer has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was fired from his job only because he is white and the man he shot dead was black, The Guardian reports.  Canyon Boykin detailed in a seven-page complaint how he felt that he was being racially discriminated against and that his 14th…

A student at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., sparked outrage online after threatening to smash a fellow student’s computer because of a Donald Trump presidential-campaign sticker, the Daily Mail reports. The student in question, whom the Daily Mail says was identified online as Clifford Durand, tweeted an image of the female student behind her…

A handful of students at Durham, N.C.’s School for Creative Studies had planned to kick off Black History Month with a bang by wearing colorful head wraps reminiscent of those worn by many women across the African continent.  However, parents and students are now planning a protest after an administrator told the students that they…

The United Nations is once again tackling racism and the human rights of black people in America, detailing several concerns, from police brutality to mass incarceration to housing crises to the school-to-prison pipeline.  In a preliminary statement to the media published last week, the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent listed…

Members from the terrorist group Boko Haram firebombed huts and burned children to death in a vicious attack that left 86 people dead, the Associated Press reports.  A survivor hidden in a tree saw the brutality unleashed and heard the screams of children in the latest attack by the Islamic extremists. According to the report,…

The family of Ramarley Graham, a black teen who was gunned down in his Bronx, N.Y., home by a police officer, is demanding justice in the teen’s case, telling the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara that the “foot-dragging is unacceptable,” the New York Daily News reports.  Tuesday will mark…

A student at Desert Vista High School in Arizona who was in a now viral photo of six students spelling out the n-word with their lettered shirts has publicly apologized at a rally for her part in the fiasco, the Arizona Republic reports. About 50 people showed up outside the high school Monday afternoon to protest…

A video of a Gainesville, Fla., police officer responding to a 911 call about kids playing in the streets “too loudly” has gone viral. In it, the officer can be seen dealing with the complaint by joining in on the game.  On Jan. 15, around 5 p.m., a 911 call went out complaining about some…

A DeKalb County, Ga., grand jury has decided to indict a white police officer who fatally shot a U.S. Air Force veteran who was experiencing a mental-health crisis last year, the Washington Post reports.  Officer Robert Olsen was indicted on six counts, including two counts of felony murder, two counts of violation of oath, one…