Talk about classy. Amber Roof, the sister of accused Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooter Dylann Roof, created a GoFundMe page asking for help financing her wedding and honeymoon, hoping to raise some $5,000, the Post and Courier reports.  The page, which the news site notes has since been removed, had raised almost $1,500 of…

A Colorado Springs, Colo., man was arrested Tuesday after admitting to local station KRDO that he was the one who posted racially charged signs outside two churches and around the city, KRDO reports. Vincent Broughton, who is black, faces charges of committing a bias-motivated crime, disorderly conduct, harassment and littering, the news site notes. The…

Three female pastors in South Carolina have received threatening letters, Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett has confirmed, WLTX reports. The letters addressed to the pastors of the Greater Union Cypress African Methodist Episcopal Church, Society Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church and Reeseville African Methodist Episcopal Church came from someone calling himself the apostle prophet Harry L.…

Daniel Wright, a U.S. veteran, was just trying to get home from school when he was denied a bus ride on a New Jersey Transit bus because of his registered service dog, Tank, a pit bull, Fox News reports.  According to Wright, a retired staff sergeant, he was coming home from school when he attempted…

While some people and political leaders across the nation are calling for the removal of Confederate symbols, others, the Ku Klux Klan included, are protesting on its behalf. According to the Post and Courier, the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan applied for a permit to hold a rally of 100-200 people on…

Renowned ballerina Misty Copeland was made a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre on Tuesday, becoming the first African-American woman to hold the position with the company, the New York Times reports.  The promotion, the Times notes, brings to realization a well-known ambition of Copeland’s, who wrote about wanting to secure the promotion in…

Glenn Ford, an exonerated convict who spent almost 30 years in solitary confinement for a murder he did not commit, died early Monday in New Orleans at the age of 65, the Times-Picayune reports.  Shortly after being exonerated and released from Angola on March 11, 2014, Ford found out that he had lung cancer. Supporters…

The police car involved in an ultimately deadly pursuit with a parole violator did not have a working dash camera, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said, according to the Detroit Free Press. “The dash cam was not operational,” Craig told reporters at a news conference Monday. “It was an older marked scout car that a…

A statue of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. is scheduled to be erected on the Georgia Statehouse grounds, a short distance away from the newly opened Liberty Plaza, where demonstrations are now held, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.  The 8-foot statue will be set on a 3-foot base and will include King quotes on all…

Bree Newsome, the woman who became renowned after scaling the flag pole on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse to remove the Confederate flag, has released her first full statement since the ordeal when she was arrested and later released on bail.  Titled with the rallying cry “Now Is the Time for Courage,” the detailed statement…