A New York City yellow-taxi driver was hit with a $25,000 penalty after refusing to pick up a black family but then picking up two white passengers shortly after, according to DNAinfo New York. The cabdriver, Baqir Raza, reportedly told Cynthia Jordan and her two daughters that he was off-duty when they tried to hail…

An Alabama police officer reportedly suggested killing a black resident and then covering up the incident as self-defense, The Guardian has uncovered. Alexander City Police Officer Troy Middlebrooks was apparently “disciplined” after making the statements in May 2013 but kept his job and still goes out on patrols in the neighborhood. According to the report,…

“Evil.” “A waste of space.” These are the words Lesley McSpadden used in an interview with Al-Jazeera America to describe former Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson, who shot her unarmed son, Michael Brown, to death last August, the New York Daily News reports. “The devil. That’s what comes to mind,” the still-grieving mother said…

Agnes Fenton was born 110 years ago—Aug. 1, 1905—in Mississippi. However, she doesn’t view her astonishing longevity as any big deal. “The birthday is just another day,” she said of the superspecial day, now come and gone, that ushered her into the “supercentenarian” club, North Jersey Media Group reports. Although she doesn’t always have great days,…

Kymora Johnson has been playing with the Charlottesville Cavaliers under-11 team since she was 6 years old. Despite that fact, the entire Virginia basketball team was disqualified Saturday from the National Travel Basketball Association’s national championship tournament because Kymora is, obviously, a girl. “She’s played in hundreds of tournaments and two prior NTBA national championship…

It’s been a year since now-former Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson gunned down unarmed teen Michael Brown after an alleged confrontation. During that time, Wilson has had to think about his part in Brown’s death but apparently hasn’t given much thought to Brown as a person, according to an extensive profile in the New…

A St. Louis man was charged on Sunday for allegedly ramming into a police car and injuring two officers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Kevin Labriado, 48, was charged with two counts of second-degree assault on a law-enforcement officer and child endangerment. Labriado’s 5-year-old daughter, along with other individuals, was in the car at the time…

The family of Sandra Bland—demanding accountability for the Illinois woman’s death while in police custody at a Texas jail—filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday, KHOU-TV reports. “We are looking for Waller County and the individuals involved to take accountability,” family attorney Cannon Lambert Sr. said, according to the Houston news station. The wrongful death suit…

There will be an investigation into the death of Raynette Turner, a mother of eight, who died in a Mount Vernon, N.Y., police holding cell while in custody last week, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Monday, according to the Huffington Post. “My office’s Special Investigations and Prosecutions Unit will investigate the death of…

A man accused of stealing a Mercedes-Benz in Florida thought that the best way to avoid being identified was to gnaw at his fingertips to forgo the fingerprinting process, the Huffington Post reports. Kenzo Roberts was arrested July 30 after Lee County sheriff’s deputies saw a 2015 Mercedes-Benz automobile that had been reported stolen. According…