Protesters took to the streets Monday night after police shot and seriously injured a 17-year-old Somali refugee in Salt Lake City, the Associated Press reports.  Abdi Mohamed, who immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 2004, was reportedly shot twice in the torso as officers intervened as he and another person allegedly attacked a…

A Raleigh, North Carolina police officer has been placed on administrative duty pending the investigation of the shooting death of a young black man, who was wanted on a warrant, ABC 11 reports. Officers declined to identify the dead man on Monday, however Rolanda Byrd said that the man who was fatally wounded by officers…

Police in Beaumont, Texas, arrested a white man and were questioning others after an allegedly racially charged shooting at the campaign headquarters of Jefferson County, Texas, sheriff candidate Zena Stephens, who is black, KMBT reports. Stephens told the news station that she was standing outside the headquarters with a group of people when a white…

A 23-year-old New Jersey woman pleaded guilty Monday to a reduced charge of aggravated manslaughter in the death of her newborn daughter, who was set on fire in the middle of a roadway, Reuters reports.  Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier had originally been charged with first-degree murder in the case, but as part of the plea deal, the…

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas created quite a stir Monday when he spoke for the first time in a decade during oral arguments, CNN reports.  Thomas reportedly directed his questions to government attorney Ilana H. Eisenstein in the case Voisine v. United States. His questions concerned whether a previous domestic-assault conviction based on reckless conduct…

Members of the Ku Klux Klan who were arrested after a brutal beatdown in Anaheim, Calif., Saturday were released because they were acting in self-defense, police said, the Associated Press reports.  The five KKK members were released, but seven other people remained in custody because they were seen beating, stomping and attacking the Klansmen with…

Barrington High School in Illinois is apologizing after two students performed a skit on Friday at the 2016 Illinois Junior Classical Convention, depicting a slave auction, NBC Chicago reports.  The two students at Barrington performed the skit during the “roll call,” in which each school participating in the competition displayed their knowledge of Greek and…

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry has confirmed that she will not be appearing on the self-titled show she hosts this Saturday after several weeks of pre-emptions and what she says is a loss of editorial control, the New York Times reports.  The Times reports that it obtained an email that was sent out this week to…

There are still a lot of questions that need to be answered as the nation reels from yet another mass shooting. On Thursday a gunman, identified as 38-year-old Cedric Ford, killed three people and injured at least 15 others before being killed himself in a shootout with a police officer. The motive behind the shooting…

Three students at SUNY Albany in upstate New York who said that they were targeted because of their race while on a bus last month will face assault charges after police cited evidence suggesting that they were the instigators, the New York Daily News reports.  Alexis Briggs, Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell, all 20 years…