The pastor and members of the congregation of an Alabama church are being hailed as heroes after wrestling a gun away from a man who opened fire during a Sunday-morning service, CBS News and the Associated Press report.  James Junior Minter was arrested and is being held without bond after reportedly shooting his girlfriend, his…

Former neurosurgeon and current Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson stood firm on his position that a Muslim should not be president of the United States in an interview with The Hill on Sunday, despite backlash.  Earlier Sunday, during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Carson had created a media firestorm after saying that he…

By now we’ve all heard the story of Ahmed Mohamed, the brilliant 14-year-old who brought his homemade digital clock to school to show his science teacher, only to wind up arrested.  Unfortunately, it’s not the first time that the scientific creativity of a person of color has been mistaken for a threat. In fact, Kiera…

Most young teens wouldn’t pass up the chance to spend money on sprucing up a “new” car to do something nice for others instead—like buy 11 student-athletes new running shoes—with their hard-earned money. Stefan Pressley of Pensacola, Fla., is not most teens. The Pine Forest High School cross-country runner dropped $500 of his own money…

Ahmed Mohamed will not be returning to his Texas high school after being put in handcuffs by police for having a “bomb,” which was actually a digital clock that the brilliant 14-year-old whipped together to show to his science teacher, the Huffington Post reports.  After the traumatic experience, which Ahmed said made him feel like…

One California teen is being called a hero after she shielded her baby nephew with her body when gunfire rained on the family’s SUV, ABC 7 reports. De Je Brewer was sitting in the back of her family’s SUV in South Los Angeles with her aunt’s 10-month-old son Wednesday night when the shooting happened. “I…

The Confederate flag is under continued scrutiny, and one Virginia high school ended up suspending students at the beginning of the new school year for wearing clothes depicting the controversial flag and then refusing to comply when given the opportunity, USA Today reports. Montgomery County Public Schools spokeswoman Brenda Drake said that some 22 or…

A student at Baltimore’s Frederick Douglass High School is facing attempted-murder charges in a violent attack on his football teammate who he believed stole a piece from his football helmet, school officials told the Baltimore Sun. The brutal beat-down occurred in the school cafeteria and was caught on video and posted online. The video shows…

Stockton, Calif., police are under scrutiny after a video posted to YouTube Wednesday showed a total of nine officers ganging up to arrest a black teenager for jaywalking, the International Business Times reports. In the beginning, one officer approached the teen, presumably to write him a ticket for jaywalking to catch a city bus. The…

Carey W. Gabay, a lawyer for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration who was shot in the head before the West Indian American Day Parade on Labor Day, is brain-dead, his family announced Tuesday night, the New York Times reports. Gabay, 43, was caught in a shootout in the Crown Heights neighborhood of New York…