Radio personality and activist Joe Madison was arrested Thursday outside the United Nations after a protest against human rights abuses in South Sudan. Madison was among three people arrested after the protest, which was held at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, before the group walked to the Ugandan Mission—where the South Sudan Mission is co-located—demanding reconciliation and…

A Brooklyn, N.Y., mother has filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department, the Metropolitan Transit Authority and four officers, demanding answers as to how her 17-year-old son ended up paralyzed and eventually dead, DNAinfo New York reports. Karen Fludd says she has gotten very little information about what happened last May when…

A Texas couple is claiming that they were subjected to a strip search over a pair of $3 earrings when they stopped at a beauty-supply store to buy hair extensions, KHOU reports. The demeaning incident occurred last week at Y Beauty Supply in southeast Houston, where they were allegedly threatened and forced to remain in…

Black women in the military have garnered the support of the powerful women of the Congressional Black Caucus. All 16 congresswomen signed on to a letter sent to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday asking him to reconsider the new grooming policies, which some consider “racially biased.”  Early last week the U.S. Army came under…

Google is on a roll, using Friday as a chance to serve up another one of its fun (and educational) doodles. This time it’s celebrating the birthday of the noted African-American chemist Percy Lavon Julian, who would have turned 115 today. Julian was the first black scientist to be inducted into the National Academy of…

What was supposed to be an exciting day visiting Humboldt State University ended in tragedy as a tour bus carrying California high school students was hit head-on by a FedEx big rig Thursday afternoon, NBC4 reports. Ten people—the drivers of both vehicles, five students and three chaperones—were killed and more than 30 injured in the…

It’s commonly accepted that white Americans will no longer make up the majority of the population by 2050. However, what a new study published in the journal Psychological Science suggests is that the more fearful white Americans are of losing their majority status, the more conservative leaning they become, the Association for Psychological Science reports. Researchers…