A teacher at a school in the New York City borough of Queens explained in an interview with the New York Post that she passed a senior who deserved to fail because of the “tremendous amount of pressure” to just graduate kids. Andrea McHale, an instructor at William Cullen Bryant High School, admitted to passing…

Is a Confederate-flag-waving, Ku Klux Klan-tattoo-having but FUBU-wearing person a walking oxymoron? The irony sailed right by an unidentified man who was attending a rally in support of the Confederate flag at State Mountain Park in Georgia, Raw Story reports. A video, posted to YouTube, opens with the man arguing about his constitutional right to…

A Clayton County, Ga., sheriff has come under increased scrutiny after accidentally shooting a friend while “practicing police tactics,” WXIA reports. The fallout started May 3 when Sheriff Victor Hill called 911 to report that he had accidentally shot Gwenevere McCord, a 43-year-old real estate agent. Hill was charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct in the…

A Hammond, Ind., teen who kept on pushing forward in life despite coping with the strain of needing two heart transplants died Wednesday at Franciscan St. Margaret Health hospital, the Post-Tribune reports. Ryan Brown didn’t make excuses. The bright 18-year-old tenaciously kept up with his studies with the help of teachers and staff at 21st…

A Tampa, Fla., school district will most likely fire the music teacher who allegedly duct-taped a kindergartner’s eyes shut as a form of punishment. However, for now, according to the Tampa Bay Times, the Hillsborough County School Board has voted 6-0 this week to suspend Lindsay Blanc, the music teacher in question. The 29-year-old reportedly earns…

A Chicago man who was wrongly imprisoned 17 years for a murder he did not commit was killed during a drug deal Tuesday, three years after finally walking free, the New York Daily News reports. Alprentiss Nash was shot multiple times during an argument with a man in a “drug deal gone bad,” Chicago police…

A Texas mother is outraged that her 10-month-old son was forgotten and left alone in the dark at a locked day care center in Houston, KTRK reports. Authorities are currently investigating 30-year-old Sharonda Ross’ claims after she and her husband, Lawrence Matthews, were forced to break into the day care to retrieve their crying little boy,…

A maintenance worker discovered four Confederate battle flags on the grounds of the Ebenezer Baptist Church—a national historic site that includes the new church, the original historic church were Martin Luther King Jr. preached and his boyhood home—near the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta early Thursday morning, the Associated Press reports. The flags…

Ray Tensing, the University of Cincinnati campus officer who fatally shot Sam Dubose during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate, has pleaded not guilty to murder and involuntary manslaughter charges, the Associated Press reports. During an arraignment on Thursday, Tensing’s bond was set at $1 million. Prosecutors have claimed that the officer…

It’s been a little over two weeks since Sandra Bland was discovered dead in her Texas jail cell from what authorities say was a suicide. In those 17 days since Bland’s controversial death, which has sparked social media fury and a plethora of unanswered questions, at least four more black women have died while in…