When little Emmanuel Hawkins discovered that his mother had died at the hands of a “bully,” his confusion prompted his grandmother to help him write an anti-bullying book, featuring the active 11-year-old as a superhero, My Fox Atlanta reports. In 2003, while his mother, Tara Hawkins, was only three months pregnant, she was viciously attacked by…

An Oklahoma teen was sentenced to spend the remainder of his life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for the 2013 murder of an Australian student baseball player, Reuters reports. Chancey Luna was 16 when he and two other teenagers drove by 22-year-old Christopher Lane and shot him to death as he was jogging…

This morning in: irony. Turns out, former Spokane, Wash., NAACP President Rachel Dolezal was not a fan of Exodus, the embattled movie starring The Dark Knight trilogy’s Christian Bale as Moses. More specifically, she echoed a lot of the complaints that circled the movie last year, decrying the casting of white actors as ancient Egyptians. In an interview…

A North Carolina elementary school teacher and an assistant principal have resigned amid parental outrage over an LGBT-friendly fairy tale that was read to third-grade students at the school, the News & Observer reports. Teacher Omar Currie and Assistant Principal Meg Goodhand, from Efland-Cheeks Elementary School, officially submitted their resignation letters on Monday, an Orange…

Over this past weekend alone, four people were killed and 24 injured in Chicago, prompting new calls for the resignation of its police chief, Fox 32 News reports. According to the report, except for one fatal stabbing in the Uptown neighborhood, the other incidents took place on the South Side or West Side, which have…

Another Rikers Island correction officer is facing serious accusations, with a federal lawsuit claiming that the officer broke a mentally challenged elderly inmate’s arm before lying about how the woman became injured, according to the New York Post.  According to the lawsuit, the inmate, M.J. Norwick, 77, had recently returned to the Queens, N.Y., jail after…

Before Rachel Dolezal started passing as a black woman, she reportedly once sued her alma mater, HBCU Howard University, accusing it of discriminating against her because she was white, the Smoking Gun has uncovered.  According to the report, Dolezal filed the lawsuit for discrimination in 2002, the same year she graduated with a Master of…

Some 2,423 days have gone by since one New York City man has tasted freedom. The last of Carlos Montero’s teenage years, and then some, have been spent behind bars. However, the 24-year-old Manhattan man, who was jailed when he was 17, has yet to be convicted. In fact, he has not even had a…

A much-anticipated statement from Spokane, Wash., NAACP President Rachel Dolezal has been postponed pending further discussion with regional and national leaders, according to NBC News. The 37-year-old had said that she would address her racial identity Monday night at the monthly meeting in response to her parents’ comments last week “outing” her as a white…

A Brooklyn, N.Y., mother is furious and demanding that her son’s high school properly educate the child after he failed his Regents exams despite acing his classwork in the same subjects, the New York Post reports. “He wasn’t educated,” Annette Renaud told the Post. “He can’t compete with students at Millennium, Brooklyn Tech or Stuyvesant.…