Although Freddie Gray said that he wasn’t doing well and requested an inhaler, one of the six officers charged in his death believed that the dying 25-year-old was just suffering from “jailitis,” investigators have discovered, according to an exclusive in the Baltimore Sun. It was not disclosed which officer made the attempt at humor despite…

Renowned former neurosurgeon Ben Carson has formally announced his presidential campaign in a bid to win the Republican nomination in 2016, the Associated Press reports. Carson has never held public office and, as AP notes, is expected to be the only well-recognized African American to put his hat in the ring for the Republican presidential…

Her son, she was told, was repeatedly disrespectful at school, and so one Columbus, Ga., mother decided that she would take matters into her own hands. She called the police to “arrest” her son to teach him a lesson, the Ledger-Enquirer reports. Chiquita Hill documented the “arrest” on Facebook, posting openly about the unconventional discipline.…

Updated Friday, May 1, 1:30 p.m. EDT: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced during a brief press conference that five of the six officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death were in custody: We know that the vast majority [of the department] serve our city with pride, with courage, with honor and with distinction. But to those of…

The Baltimore Police Department has finished its investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, the young, unarmed black man who was injured in its custody and later succumbed to his injuries. The department handed its findings over to the state’s attorney on Thursday, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, the van that…

Allen Bullock, the 18-year-old seen in photos smashing in a police car with a traffic cone, turned himself in after being encouraged by his parents. But now he is being held on $500,000 bail, an amount his parents cannot afford, The Guardian reports.  Bullock faces charges of rioting and malicious destruction of property, among other…

Rallies spread to different U.S. cities overnight as protesters marched in solidarity with the latest alleged victim of police brutality, Baltimore’s Freddie Gray. According to NBC News, hundreds gathered in New York City’s Union Square on Wednesday, picking up protesters as they marched to different areas of the city and growing to a force of more…

A South Carolina independent college-preparatory school has launched an investigation after attention was drawn to a photo circulating of black students with nooses stenciled around their necks, the Greenville News reports.   The headmaster at Christ Church Episcopal School, Leonard Kupersmith, said that the photo was created on Snapchat and was shared via text messages before…

While media attention has quickly zoomed in on the burning of Baltimore, and as discussions focus on the “bad actors” and “thugs” who were destroying property and, allegedly, targeting police, there is another side of Baltimore that has been studiously overlooked, as a majority of protesters continue to do good for and by their community. …

A Georgia woman was taken into custody after allegedly writing a Facebook post that reportedly incited people to kill white police officers, WXIA-TV reports. Police say that Ebony Monique Dickens, under the Facebook name of Tiffany Milan, posted the statement to Facebook on Monday evening, saying in part, “All Black ppl should rise up and…