Donald Trump has gone on a hiring spree, tapping several individuals as he expands his campaign.  Most notably he has been hiring quite a few black Republicans, including Tea Partier Katrina Pierson, who now serves as national spokesperson. On Thursday he announced that Earl Phillip had joined his team as his North Carolina state director,…

A legend in his own right, one of the last remaining flight instructors who trained the renowned Tuskegee Airmen to fly combat planes in World War II has passed away in Georgia at the age of 96, the Associated Press reports.  Milton Pitts Crenchaw died Tuesday at Piedmont Henry Hospital after succumbing to cardiovascular disease…

East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg, Ga., is currently investigating a photo that surfaced on social media this week, showing a student wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood and carrying a Confederate battle flag, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The school sent out a letter to parents Wednesday detailing the incident and ensuring them that the…

Girls on the basketball team at Salmen High School in Slidell, La., were kicked off the team a day after they boycotted a game. They say they refused to play because complaints about their new coach were not properly addressed, the New Orleans Advocate reports.  Seven girls in total were kicked off the team Wednesday…

Parents of Chicago’s Fiske Elementary School students weren’t impressed after a substitute teacher gave sixth-graders a lesson and assignment based on controversial local rapper Chief Keef, calling the material inappropriate, WLS reports.  According to the news station, a Chicago Public Schools spokeswoman said that Tuesday was the teacher’s last day.  “If you were a sub,…

Students across the nation joined together Wednesday in a mass protest to hold their universities accountable and demand an end to institutionalized racism on campuses. In what organizers are calling #StudentBlackOut, student leaders on campuses around the country are encouraged to organize events that uplift blackness, one organizer, Yamiesha Bell, told NBC News.  “We hope…

A California businesswoman gave a harrowing first-person account of her encounter with the Santa Monica, Calif., Police Department in the Washington Post, detailing how 19 officers arrived at her apartment after a white neighbor reported a possible burglary.  Fay Wells, the vice president of strategy at a California company, told of how she accidentally locked…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has brought on Katrina Pierson, a black Tea Party activist, as his new national spokeswoman, Politico reports.  Pierson, who used to stand firmly by the side of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), represents, the news site explains, Trump’s hope to keep his hold on the party lead and keep it away…

A 19-year-old Northwest Missouri State University student charged with making terrorist threats against black people on that campus appeared in court Tuesday and was later released on bond, his attorney confirmed, Reuters reports.  Connor Stottlemyre is one of three men arrested last week because of threats they allegedly made against black students on social media.…

The grieving sister of a North Carolina man who was fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies on Sunday claims that her brother was “murdered,” and that deputies should have gotten a search warrant before entering the man’s Spring Lake trailer home, the Huffington Post reports.  John Livingston, his sister insists, was “an innocent man” and officers…