University of Virginia senior Martese Johnson has filed a federal lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and three of its officers in relation to his bloody arrest that went viral earlier this year, the Washington Post reports.  The lawsuit claims that the ABC violated the 21-year-old’s constitutional rights, accusing agents of unlawfully…

A Maryland teenager was stabbed to death while trying to defend his mother from her live-in boyfriend during a domestic dispute, charging documents show, according to WJLA.  The documents report that 14-year-old Keyshaun Mason and his 18-year-old brother, Nathaniel Deberry, were trying to “assist their mother at which time Sean Crawford armed himself with a…

Oct. 12 was a heartbreaking day for the Duane family when they realized that their daughter, 27-year-old Quinn, would not be getting married after the groom-to-be got cold feet and called off what was meant to be a Saturday wedding.  With deposits already paid and more bills to come, the family turned the disappointment into…

Authorities have not ruled the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Maryland transgender woman as a hate crime, but they haven’t ruled out the possibility, either. “We are not ruling out the possibility that this could be hate-based,” Montgomery County (Md.) Police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks told NBC Washington. However, the family of Zella Ziona believes…

Washington Post Managing Editor Kevin Merida will be stepping down at the end of the month after accepting a job at ESPN. According to the Post, Merida will become an ESPN senior vice president, as well as editor-in-chief of The Undefeated, a digital site that delves into the intersection of sports, race and culture.  “I…

The body of a Florida girl who had been missing may have been uncovered in a freezer by relatives, who made the gruesome discovery after the child’s mother dropped the freezer off at a relative’s home, WTSP reports. According to the report, on Friday, Bradenton, Fla., police were following up on a Child Protective Services…

The celebration of Halloween brings up all sorts of interesting debates.  If it’s not reports of blackface and cultural appropriation for Halloween parties, it’s stories centered on nooses and depictions of lynching as decorations. This time, a Roy, Utah, man prompted an NAACP response after he put up an animated lynching display in front of…

Thursday’s special City Council meeting in Prairie View, Texas, which was meant to address the tasing and arrest of black Councilman Jonathan Miller, was abruptly canceled late Wednesday. The cancellation didn’t stop more than two dozen residents from gathering at City Hall demanding answers, the Los Angeles Times reports. Tensions have remained high in Prairie…

Demolition workers in St. Louis made a gruesome discovery Thursday morning when a decomposed body was found in an alley. The body has been identified as that of a missing Army reservist, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.  Authorities confirmed that they found the body of Robert Lovings Polk, who was last seen Oct. 3, when,…

Emmanuel Hilton is a 17-year-old soccer goalie at Blackhawk High School in Chippewa, Pa. Emmanuel, however, was born without his lower legs. Despite this, the bright young man, who was adopted from an orphanage in the Republic of Congo, continues to kill the game as a backup goalkeeper for his school’s junior varsity team, WPXI reports. …