The Missouri man who stabbed his ex-wife and her male friend repeatedly over child support is scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday, Reuters reports.  Andre Cole’s ex-wife, Terri, survived the attack, but the male friend did not, and Cole was convicted of first-degree murder and first-degree assault, among other charges, the wire notes.…

A Michigan middle school student won’t be returning to school Monday because he was the target of repeated bullying and racial harassment at his suburban school, WDIV reports. Phoenix Williams, a 13-year-old at Bloomfield Hills Middle School, has come forward with his story after capturing students’ racist taunts on his cellphone. The video shows his…

For Charleston, S.C., attorney David Aylor, it was over as soon as he saw the disturbing video that showed North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager opening fire on 50-year-old Walter Scott, shooting a reported eight times as Scott was running away. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Beast, Aylor didn’t go into details…

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…