Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently recounted the harrowing story of losing her childhood friend in the racial attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., when she was just 8 years old, Reuters reports. “As an 8-year-old, you don’t think about terror of this kind,” said Rice, who recounted on Friday…

Fulvio Bressan, a sixth-generation Italian winemaker, faces a boycott of his business after posting a racist rant on Facebook on Aug. 22 about Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black government minister, according to the Huffington Post. Though Kyenge, an outspoken advocate of looser immigration laws, has been a frequent target of racist public incidents in recent months, Bressan’s note was particularly abusive.…

Fox 8 is reporting that New Orleans law enforcement authorities have released a video that captured the shooting of an unarmed black man by police as they entered his home last year during a botched drug raid. Former New Orleans police officer Joshua Colclough was sentenced to four years in prison last month in the…

A Jacksonville, Fla., parent has started a petition on change.org asking that a school district to change the name of a high school named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and the first  “grand wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan, the Washington Post reports. The petition has accumulated about 75,000 signatures so far. And, according to…

The New York Times is reporting that even as thousands of ballots from New York City’s mayoral primary had yet to be counted on Thursday, Democrats and Republicans began to square off, highlighting the deep ideological divide of a general-election matchup. Campaigning for the first time since securing the Republican nomination, [Joseph L.] Lhota promised…

Police Chief Steve Bracknell, in charge of the Florida town where George Zimmerman resides, Lake Mary, agreed in a series of emails that he is a “ticking time bomb.” Lake Mary police responded to the domestic dispute at Zimmerman’s home on Monday. Chief Bracknell also concurred that Zimmerman is another “Sandy Hook” waiting to happen,…

After Miley Cyrus’ controversial performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, New York magazine explored data to determine what American were most interested in reading about. The results? They were 12 times more curious about twerk-gate than about the conflict in Syria, Mediaite reports. Mocking the priorities of the average American news consumer is the…

A black Florida man, Bobby Wingate, is suing the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office after a deputy cited him for “walking down the wrong side of the road” during stop, then punched him in the face last December, according to the Raw Story. The deputy was unable to defend the citation when the case appeared in court.…

Authorities in Council Bluffs, Iowa, are investigating a possible hate crime after the home of an interracial couple was set ablaze and the n-word was scrawled on their walls, the Raw Story reports. Shelly Owens told KETV that firefighters were called to her Council Bluffs home at around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday. “I’m very angry,” she said.…

Dr. Shiping Bao, a former associate medical examiner in Florida’s Volusia County who testified at George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, plans to file a $100 million lawsuit in the case, according to WFTV 9. He reportedly will allege that the medical examiner, the state attorney’s office and Sanford Police…