English teacher Cicely Cobb says she has been tormented by students and administrators at Desert Vista High School in Ahwatukee, Ariz., because of her race, and that the matter has escalated since she filed a lawsuit against the school and the Tempe Union High School District in February, the Raw Story reports. Students brazenly disrespect…

A 9-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., girl leaving church on Sunday was killed in a three-car crash, the Daily News reports. Fourth-grader Rebecca Ramnarine died at Brookdale University Hospital shortly after the late-afternoon accident, the news site notes. The driver who caused the crash is also the suspect in a hit-and-run collision that occurred before the accident…

At Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the group honored black reporter Harry McAlpin, with first lady Michelle Obama presenting a scholarship bearing his name to Howard University student Glynn Hill, the Associated Press reports. The White House Correspondents’ Association—an organization of journalists who cover the president and the White House—is certainly celebrating its 100th…

A small boy was beaten to death while attempting to stop an older male who was trying to rape his older sister in South Richmond, Va., WTVR reports. An aunt told the news station that the two children, both younger than 13, were playing on the railroad tracks when a man appeared and tried to…

Updated Friday, May 2, 2014, 2 p.m. EDT: President Barack Obama called the botched exeuction “deeply troubling” while at a White House press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, NBC News reports.   Obama said that the mishandled execution raised “significant questions about how the death penalty is being applied” in the nation, adding that he…

Los Angeles Clippers’ scorned owner, Donald Sterling, has reportedly been battling prostate for years, the New York Post reports. Sources told the news site that they were surprised at how well his fight was going. “They thought he would die two years ago,” one source told the Post. “People have been predicting his imminent demise.…

It should come as no surprise that a proposed neighborhood-watch group, formed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, is worrying some residents in a southern-Pennsylvania township. However, according to Reuters, whether or not the Klan watch is wanted in Fairview Township, there’s little evidence that a crime watch is needed in the first place.…

The woman at the center of the Donald Sterling scandal, V. Stiviano, is working her newfound fame as a result of a leaked recording of the Los Angeles Clippers owner’s racist ranting—a recording that her lawyer claims he requested. According to the New York Post, Stiviano—hidden behind her now-trademark visor and surrounded by an entourage…

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Congress that the Pentagon would review its grooming standards, particularly those surrounding hairstyles, after some critics called the new policies racially and culturally insensitive, CNN reports. Hagel said that he and his deputy would “work with the service secretaries and the military chiefs to review their respective policies, to address…

Two people were killed and more than 100 injured in a gas explosion at the Escambia County Jail in Pensacola, Fla., the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the explosion occurred about 11 p.m. CDT Wednesday in a booking facility at the jail, causing the building—in which about 600 inmates were being housed—to partially…