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…

Vice President Joe Biden will not be running for president for 2016.  In a much anticipated announcement made from the Rose Garden, accompanied by wife Jill Biden and President Barack Obama, Biden announced that the window for him to mount a successful campaign has closed and he will not be pursuing the Democratic nomination.  “As…

The celebration of Halloween brings up all sorts of interesting debates.  If it’s not reports of blackface and cultural appropriation for Halloween parties, it’s stories centered on nooses and depictions of lynching as decorations. This time, a Roy, Utah, man prompted an NAACP response after he put up an animated lynching display in front of…

Thursday’s special City Council meeting in Prairie View, Texas, which was meant to address the tasing and arrest of black Councilman Jonathan Miller, was abruptly canceled late Wednesday. The cancellation didn’t stop more than two dozen residents from gathering at City Hall demanding answers, the Los Angeles Times reports. Tensions have remained high in Prairie…

Demolition workers in St. Louis made a gruesome discovery Thursday morning when a decomposed body was found in an alley. The body has been identified as that of a missing Army reservist, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.  Authorities confirmed that they found the body of Robert Lovings Polk, who was last seen Oct. 3, when,…

Emmanuel Hilton is a 17-year-old soccer goalie at Blackhawk High School in Chippewa, Pa. Emmanuel, however, was born without his lower legs. Despite this, the bright young man, who was adopted from an orphanage in the Republic of Congo, continues to kill the game as a backup goalkeeper for his school’s junior varsity team, WPXI reports. …

Playing football, even at the high school level, takes a lot of tenacity and willpower.  Joe Martel III, who happens to have prosthetic legs, has tenacity and willpower in spades. According to MaxPreps, the freshman is a defensive lineman for his high school in Beggs, Okla., and is already having a huge impact on his…

During a campaign stop in Iowa on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz, who is one of many candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination, told ThinkProgress that Black Lives Matter is “embracing and celebrating the murder of police officers.” “If you look at the Black Lives Matter movement, one of the most disturbing things is, more…