Before North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott, he had been subject to two complaints, including a separate complaint about inappropriate use of force, for which the 33-year-old cop was exonerated, NBC News reports. According to documents released by the North Charleston Police Department, the news site notes, the U.S.…

Two black women filed a complaint with the Transportation Security Administration claiming that their sisterlocks made them targets for TSA agents at airports. Now, they say, their complaint has prompted the agency to put measures in place to stop the singling out of women based on hairstyles, Raw Story reports. It all started when Malaika…

Ben Carson—neurosurgeon, Tea Party superstar and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate—is well-known for his controversial comments, whether he’s comparing the Affordable Care Act to slavery or claiming that prison makes people gay. According to GQ, on the night of Obama’s State of the Union address in January, Carson implied that the president was a psychopath…

Empire, the new “it” show on Fox, has succeeded in reeling in more viewers from week to week. For Wednesday night’s two-hour season 1 finale, the show broke all prior records, scoring on average some 16.7 million viewers, a rise of 12 percent from the 14.9 million watching last week’s episode, USA Today reported. According…

Abreham Zemedagegehu was held in jail for six weeks in a Virginia prison without an interpreter and not knowing why he was being held in the first place, the Associated Press reports. It was alleged that Zemedagegehu, who is deaf, stole an iPad, which its owner later found. For that accusation he spent more than…

Black people in America progressed a lot better when lynchings were still occurring. Or at least that’s what Wall Street Journal editorial-board member Jason Riley said in a recent op-ed, Media Matters reported. In his column addressing the notorious racist chant on a bus by members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of…

Two University of Virginia officials say that they are “outraged by the brutality” that a black undergraduate faced early Wednesday morning while out with friends. University of Virginia junior Martese Johnson was celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at a bar when he was allegedly thrown to the ground by officers from the Virginia Department of Alcoholic…

A mom living in the Bronx borough of New York City was merely trying to teach her young son a valuable lesson about why stealing is wrong. She petitioned the help of people who should know best—New York’s finest—when she ended up being handcuffed herself, DNAinfo New York reports. According to the report, 29-year-old Tyeesha…

A pregnant woman said she was attacked earlier this month after she did not say “thank you” to a man who held a door open for her at a New York City public housing building, CBS New York reports. Lakeeya Walker, who works as a caretaker at the building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan,…

Pretty much anybody can make edits to Wikipedia pages. As it turns out, Internet Protocol addresses from the New York City Police Department have been linked to changes in Wikipedia pages about several controversial police-brutality cases, Capital New York reports. According to the report, IP addresses in the computer network at the NYPD’s 1 Police…