Two seniors at a private Catholic high school in South Huntington, N.Y., were indefinitely suspended for wearing a Confederate flag draped around their shoulders, CBS New York reports. The students, who brought the flag to an after-hours sports event at the Long Island school, have prompted outrage, according to the report. “The African-American students who…

Actor Columbus Short has been served divorce papers after allegedly threatening to kill his wife, Tuere Short, and then himself, TMZ reports. According to a restraining order that the entertainment news site got ahold of, on April 7 the actor went into Tuere’s room intoxicated, with a wine bottle in hand, acting as if he…

Air Force Capt. Nicolas Aquino’s future is on hold as he faces charges arising from entering his own house in Monterey County, Calif., KSBW reports.  Aquino, who is a student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, got the news of his arrest when his school supervisor called him and told him he is barred…

An elderly bank robber who was homesick for prison is to be sentenced Thursday for the bank robbery he committed last year in the hopes of returning to prison life, the Associated Press reports. Walter Unbehaun, who dropped out of high school, spent most of his adult life in prison, and last year, bored, alone…

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. So the adage goes—and in the case of Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, it is painfully true. The 80-year-old legend was subjected to racist slurs and threats days after a controversial interview with USA Today. Last week Aaron spoke to the news site about the lack…

Western Washington University of Bellingham, Wash., is taking its goal for greater diversity to the next level, reportedly sending out a community questionnaire asking students, “How do we make sure that in future years ‘we are not as white as we are today?’” Campus Reform reports. According to the campus-news site, the WWU communications-and-marketing department’s…

Stop the presses. One of the most beloved animation studios, DreamWorks, is working on its next project, Home, but there’s something just a little bit different about this 3D post-apocalyptic film. The main star of this feature will be a little black girl, Tip. According to the Indiewire, the futuristic film is based on the…

Radio personality and activist Joe Madison was arrested Thursday outside the United Nations after a protest against human rights abuses in South Sudan. Madison was among three people arrested after the protest, which was held at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, before the group walked to the Ugandan Mission—where the South Sudan Mission is co-located—demanding reconciliation and…