The Minneapolis NAACP is calling for action after a lynching photo was found in a Joe’s Crab Shack table with a tasteless caption, WCCO reports.  According to the organization’s leaders, two black diners, Tyrone Williams and Chauntyll Allen, sat down for a meal at the Roseville, Minn., diner when they noticed the disturbing image inside…

A Brooklyn, N.Y., IHOP waiter is aligning himself with folk hero Robin Hood, even though he is accused of being a thief, the New York Daily News reports.  William Powell, 27, is facing charges of felony grand larceny and possession of stolen property after allegedly giving away more than $3,000 worth of soft drinks over…

The first daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, looked completely stunning while attending their first state dinner Thursday night, which was held in honor of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.  And perhaps it was a timely experience. Trudeau, whose own father was a prime minister from the time he was born until he was 8 years…

A California father and other parents are demanding an apology after Oak Ridge High School fans reportedly yelled racially insensitive slurs during a girls basketball game, KCRA reports.  “What the student body would ‘cheer’ during the game is even worse—keep in mind that half of our team is of Asian descent,” Glen Kumamoto told the…

Ammon Bundy and other members of the armed militia that took over a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon have been slapped with new federal charges, including carrying firearms into federal property and stealing and damaging government property, Reuters reports.  According to the report, the new indictment supersedes an earlier indictment in the case in which…

A terrified taxi driver got a lucky break when an unobservant armed man tried to rob him while a police car was right behind the cab, Fox 43 reports.  According to the report, Berks County, Pa., Deputy Sheriff Terry Ely became suspicious after noticing that the taxi did not move as the traffic light turned…

A staggering number of Americans say that they face discrimination at work, from the police or in other situations that can be linked back to stress and poor health, according to a study released Thursday by the American Psychological Association, USA Today reports.  The study, based on a survey of 3,361 adults last August by…

A Texas woman is second-guessing burying the remains of her husband of 44 years in a cemetery that initially turned her away, telling her that burial was for “whites only,” the Daily Mail reports.  Last week Dorothy Patton Barrera, who is white, approached her hometown cemetery, seeking to bury the ashes of her husband, who was…

An accused serial killer has been charged with five new counts of murder and 10 other crimes, the Gary, Ind., Police Department confirmed Monday, CNN reports.  Darren Vann, 44, of Indiana, was arrested back in 2014 and charged with killing 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy and 35-year-old Anith Jones. Now authorities are saying that Vann has confessed…

Chicago authorities have charged a 22-year-old man for the execution-style slaying of a 9-year-old boy last November, the Washington Post reports.  The suspect, whom the Post identified as Dwright Doty, was charged Monday with first-degree murder in the shooting death of fourth-grader Tyshawn Lee. Authorities have maintained that Tyshawn was lured into an alley on…