The media sphere is still reeling from the video footage that surfaced of a McKinney, Texas, police officer pulling his service weapon on teens and manhandling them at a pool party in their neighborhood. But at least one McKinney resident is standing by the police, insisting that the actions taken were appropriate. “I want everyone…

Ms. Sweetie is going to be 106 years old soon, but the spry “human being”—she doesn’t like calling herself an old lady—is an avid basketball fan, and nothing is going to stop her from cheering on her favorite team, the Golden State Warriors, as they play in the NBA Finals. In an interview with ESPN,…

Kalief Browder, 22, who struggled with readjusting to society after being jailed at New York City’s Rikers Island for three unexplained years without a conviction or even a trial, has died, the New Yorker reports. The young man reportedly ended his life over the weekend after pulling out an air conditioner in one of the…

The former North Charleston, S.C., police officer who killed a fleeing Walter Scott was indicted by a grand jury Monday on a murder charge, the New York Times reports. Michael T. Slager, who was fired from the North Charleston Police Department after the April 4 shooting that rocked the nation after citizen video became public,…

Salinas, Calif., police officers were called in Friday evening to help Jose Velasco, who suffers from an unspecified mental illness, according to family. The 28-year-old was reportedly running into traffic, so his mother called the police requesting assistance, Raw Story reports. Video of the incident, however, shows officers beating Velasco with batons and using a…

The book cover looks like that of any other science book, to be honest: White man showing a multicultural group something that looks like displaced atoms. However, Holding Fast to Dreams: Empowering Youth From the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement is a little more than meets the eye.  “It’s a great conversation starter,” Freeman…

A Kennesaw State University student has finally gotten an apology after a student adviser accused him of harassment merely for sitting and waiting for a chance to speak to his own adviser, 11 Alive reports.  Kevin Bruce tweeted out his encounter with student adviser Abbie Dawson, who berated him for harassing his academic adviser, even…

The historic Edmund Pettus Bridge, known for its significance during the civil rights movement as the site of Bloody Sunday and the starting point of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, could be getting a new name following a vote Wednesday by the Alabama Senate, the Montgomery Adviser reports. Democratic state Sen. Hank Sanders of Selma sponsored the…

A Texas father has been charged with capital murder after allegedly beating his sons so severely over their lack of progress in potty training that one of the children died, KHOU-TV reports. According to the news station, 24-year-old Anthony Trakemon Powell could face the death penalty for the death of 3-year-old Tristan Powell. Charges for…

A former elementary school employee is not sorry she broke the law when she decided to give school lunches to kids who didn’t have money for food, CBS Denver reports. Della Curry, who worked as a kitchen manager at Dakota Valley Elementary School in Aurora, Colo., was fired by the Cherry Creek School District after…