Over Thanksgiving break, three basketball players from Edison Tech High School in Rochester, N.Y., were arrested for disorderly conduct. But the teens and their basketball coach are saying they did nothing wrong. According to WROC-TV, the teenagers were waiting downtown with about 16 other teammates for a school bus to take them to a scrimmage…

Some residents of south Baton Rouge, La.—a predominantly affluent and white area of the city—want to secede from the city and create a new one named “St. George,” the Raw Story reports.  A study by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber has already concluded that incorporating a new city would most likely end in Baton Rouge…

An Olympic gold medal won by African-American track-and-field legend Jesse Owens is being auctioned off, the Associated Press reports.  The medal, won at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, is currently held by SCP Auctions, one of the largest auctioneers and private sellers of important sports memorabilia, and represents a significant part of African-American—and world—history. When…

“The sun of Oman shines in this museum,” said National Museum of African Art Director Johnnetta B. Cole on a rainy Tuesday in Washington, D.C. “My colleagues and I at this museum are profoundly grateful to the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center for this amazingly generous funding that will make it possible for us to tell…

As you travel for the holidays, keep in mind that not all places in these United States are as friendly as others. Now someone has pinpointed the most racist and homophobic locations in the United States—at least according to tweets sent from those areas, Policy Mic reports. A map, created by the folks over at…

Del City, Okla., Police Capt. Randy Trent Harrison has been convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the 2012 death of Dane Scott Jr., an unarmed teenager, the Guardian reports. The case centered around the day last year in March when Harrison tried to pull over Scott’s car. The teenager left the car and got into a…

Jawon Johnson was enjoying Thanksgiving break from West Virginia State University when he got pulled over Saturday night for a traffic violation in Harford County, Md. At that point, Johnson’s vacation started to go downhill. In a case of mistaken identity, Johnson was taken into custody by the Baltimore police as a wanted man. He…

Los Angeles County Judge David Cunningham III, who is also a former Los Angeles Police Commission president, is suing UCLA police for using excessive force during a seatbelt stop. According to Cunningham, he was stopped over the weekend because, as the police put it, he only began to buckle his seat belt when he saw…

Fashion has been used many a time before as an excuse to wear racist costumes, like blackface, beyond Halloween. It looks as if the fashion industry—well, some of those associated with it, anyway—is at it again. Elle France Beauty Editor Jeanne Deroo posted a picture on Instagram in which she is in full-on blackface, complete…