A Wisconsin teachers aide has been arrested after being caught on video brutally beating a student inside a classroom Wednesday morning, WDJT reports. In the video, the 39-year-old staff member at Bay View High School in Milwaukee is seen roughly pushing a 14-year-old student onto a desk before holding him by the neck and pushing…

When Jonathon Nicola arrived in Ontario in November as a refugee from South Sudan, the believed-to-be 17-year-old was thought to be a natural fit for the boys’ basketball team at Catholic Central High School in London, standing at 6 feet 9 inches. The team’s basketball coach, Pete Cusumano, whom Nicola lived with, believed that Nicola…

 Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) is not pleased that President Andrew Jackson, a Tennessee native himself, is being taken off the front of the $20 bill and replaced with Harriet Tubman, ABC News reports.  “United States history is not Andrew Jackson versus Harriet Tubman. It is Andrew Jackson and Harriet Tubman, both heroes of a nation’s…

Harriet Tubman will be replacing President Andrew Jackson as the face of the $20 bill, the Treasury Department confirmed Wednesday. But Tubman is not the only civil rights icon set to be honored on U.S. currency.  Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew said during a press call Wednesday that the $5 bill will also…

Whole Foods is fighting back against a gay Texas pastor who claims to be the victim of discrimination, denouncing his accusation that the grocery chain gave him a cake reading, “Love Wins F—,” the New York Daily News reports. The company is countersuing Jordan Brown for $100,000, saying that he made up his story. It…

The mother of a black Chicago teen who was gunned down by police last week has filed a lawsuit against the city and two officers, the Chicago Tribune reports.  The federal wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday by Tambrasha Hudson, claims that 16-year-old Pierre Loury “presented no threat” as he was being chased by…

A man who reportedly claims to be from four years in the future, where everyone is dead, was arrested after assaulting a fast-food-restaurant employee and stealing chicken and bacon, KOCO reports. Dante Rashad Anderson is accused of walking into a Carl’s Jr. and screaming at employees to give him food, before being turned away. Anderson,…

Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., decided to hold a campus forum Tuesday after six rainbow-colored nooses were found hung on a tree on campus, WKRN-TV reports.  After an investigation, the university confirmed that the display was from an artist as part of an introductory course that focuses on yarn, WKRN-TV reports. The school…

A Missouri man has pleaded guilty to making a terrorist threat on social media against black people at the University of Missouri after the university’s president was ousted because of complaints over his handling of racial abuse, Reuters reports. Hunter Park, 20, pleaded guilty to the charge Monday and is scheduled to be sentenced June…

The 11 members of a book club who were kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train after being “too loud” have settled their racial-discrimination lawsuit, their attorney confirmed Monday, the Mercury News reports. The book club, the Sistahs on the Reading Edge, is based in the San Francisco Bay Area’s East Bay. The women, 10 of…