Diane Nash, one of the main leaders and strategists during the civil rights movement, refused to march at the historic restaging of the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., this weekend because of the presence of former President George W. Bush, the Washington Post reports. Nash refused to join Bush and…

There was a ton of excitement when HBO announced the HBOAccess Writing Fellowship, which specifically targets and encourages diverse and female writers to submit scripts. It was unprecedented in many ways, but to add to the competition, HBO made it clear that it would consider only the first 1,000 submissions. The cable network also gave…

The Department of Justice is preparing to release findings this week alleging that the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department practiced routine racial bias and violated the constitutional rights of residents, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, department officials discovered that although 67 percent of Ferguson’s population is black, black people made up 93 percent…

A 19-year-old Haitian was reportedly beaten and hanged in a public square in Santiago, Dominican Republic, the Haiti Sentinel reports. The victim, identified only as “Tulile,” was hanged in the square of Ercilia Pepin, his hands and feet tied up, near the María José Cabral and Baez hospital, where he reportedly worked shining shoes. According…

Three Muslim students were shot to death at a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill residential complex, and a suspect, with reportedly anti-religious views, has been taken into custody, Al-Jazeera reports.  Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was arrested and charged in the triple homicide of 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat; his wife, 21-year-old Yusor Mohammad; and…

Rookie New York City cop Peter Liang will face criminal charges for his part in the November shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, NY1 reports. Last year Gurley was shot in the stairwell of a Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment building. At that time, the New York City Police Department called the shooting an “accident.” Liang had only…

A Georgia man who killed his ex-wife and three others reportedly had been arguing with the ex about taxes and child support, an investigator said, before going on a deadly shooting spree that ended with him killing himself, the Associated Press reports. On Saturday, a little after 3 p.m., Cedric Prather Jr., 33, parked a…

Students at South Pointe High School in South Carolina wasted no time in turning around the ugly message that had been spray-painted across a spirit rock outside the school over the weekend, turning it into a message of equality, the Herald Online reports.  The first, racist message, which read “Happy N—ger Month” and was signed…

A South Carolina high school was the target of racist graffiti Sunday when a large rock, which sits in front of the school, was spray-painted with the slur “Happy N—ger Month,” Raw Story reports. The rock, in front of South Pointe High School in Rock Hill, was signed “KKK,” the news site notes. “It was…