Chicago police have arrested one of two people suspected of mugging Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s son in December near the family’s home on the North Side, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The apprehended suspect allegedly sold Zach Emanuel’s phone online to another man, who then sold it to a woman via Facebook, the police told the news…

Friends of the unarmed, black Wisconsin teen who was gunned down by a Madison police officer were questioned for hours without legal counsel or family present after the fatal shooting, BuzzFeed reports. The news site was given a video that shows attorneys and family members arguing with officers trying to gain access to two brothers,…

A naked, unarmed black man was killed by an officer in DeKalb County, Ga., at an apartment complex on Monday, 11 Alive reports. The New York Times has identified the victim as 27-year-old Anthony Hill. The officer responsible for the shooting death is white, Cedrick L. Alexander, the DeKalb County deputy chief operating officer for…

The University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter is essentially all but a memory after being kicked off campus on Monday because of a video of frat members singing a racist chant surfaced. However, as Talking Points Memo reports, there is one casualty who not only has to come to the realization that his “family”…

Another frat is in the news. According to Raw Story, the University of Texas at Austin chapter of Phi Gamma Delta is in the news after it posted rules—racist and homophobic prohibitions included—in the frat house. The letter, which was supposed to be confidential and also shows that one of the members probably needs to…

A Mississippi sheriff’s deputy is out of a job after authorities say he threatened another person online using racial slurs, the Clarion-Ledger reports. A man identified only as “David” on YouTube posted a video that shows an Xbox screen and reportedly provides audio of a conversation between him and then-Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Slater. David also…

Diane Nash, one of the main leaders and strategists during the civil rights movement, refused to march at the historic restaging of the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., this weekend because of the presence of former President George W. Bush, the Washington Post reports. Nash refused to join Bush and…

Two New York City police officers are recovering after being beaten up by a group of suspects whom they were trying to arrest in the stairwell of a housing project in the borough of Brooklyn, the New York Post reports. According to the report, the cops were patrolling the housing project early Sunday morning, searching…