While the media takes Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to task for recorded racist rants attributed to him, among other things, here are a few things you may want to know about the fiasco. 1. Donald Sterling was born Donald Tokowitz. According to an article in The Nation, Sterling (né Tokowitz) was the only…

Conservative business giant Donald Trump appeared on Fox News to give his two cents about the Donald Sterling scandal. Although Trump did describe Sterling’s comments as “horrible” and “disgusting,” he also took up a new angle, calling girlfriend V. Stiviano—whose lawyer has denied that she released the audio of Sterling’s racist rant—the “girlfriend from hell.”…

There has been a swarm of media reports celebrating young African-American teenagers who have been killing it in college admissions. There are the DC-area triplets deciding between Columbia and University of Pennsylvania, the North Carolina young man who got into seven Ivy League schools and the New York teen who got accepted into all eight…

Competition is sweet to the Jones triplets, who use their friendly rivalry to egg each other on and bring out the best in each other—a mindset that has landed them straight on the path toward an Ivy League education, NBC Washington reports. Silver Spring, Md., residents Malik, Ahmad and Kahlil Jones are still deciding whether…

Philippe Holland was heading back to his car Tuesday night after making his last stop for his pizza delivery job; he didn’t have his pizza bag with him, Philly.com reports, because it had been a small order. So with his hoodie up and hands in his pockets he trekked back toward his car from the…

When high school senior Patrick Peoples decided to apply to a number of Ivy League schools, he was doing it largely on a whim. “No one ever expects to get in,” the young man told WECT. “I just wanted to apply. Maybe I’ll get into one—maybe, just maybe.” But he did more than that. Peoples,…

By now, the fiasco that was the #myNYPD campaign is well known, with Twitter quickly taking over the hashtag promotion, which was supposed to display New York’s Finest at their friendliest, and turning it into a channel to speak out (with withering sarcasm) about police brutality. As it turns out, however, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton…

Deputy Attorney General James Cole on Wednesday released new criteria for clemency that officials will now consider when dealing with applicants, the Associated Press reports. Nonviolent offenders with a history of good behavior and no gang affiliations, who have already completed more than 10 years of a sentence, are being encouraged to apply for early…

Ruth Hunter was stunned one morning earlier in April when her front door abruptly flew open and she heard shouts of “Police!” WTVR reports. “I thought someone was breaking in to rob or kill me,” the 75-year-old Virginia grandmother, who likes to keep to herself, told the news station. But it was state law enforcement conducting a…