Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday invoked examples of slavery and internment camps in his ardent dissent in response to the court’s 5-4 decision that gay couples have a constitutional right to marry. The dissent (pdf) takes issue with the use of the concepts of “liberty” and “dignity,” saying that the petitioners in Obergefell…

Three former Florida A&M University marching-band members who were convicted of manslaughter in the 2011 hazing death of drum major Robert Champion were sentenced Friday in Orlando, Fla., to 10 years’ supervised probation, reports the Associated Press. They were convicted in April. In announcing the sentences for Benjamin McNamee, 24, Aaron Golson, 22, and Darryl…

Marilyn Mosby has asked a judge to order a separate trial for two of the six officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death, according to the Associated Press. For reasons that are unclear, the Baltimore state’s attorney filed court documents Friday asking a judge that the officers, William Porter and Lt. Brian Rice, be tried separately…

Updated Saturday, June 27, 2:20 p.m.: #FreeBree is now trending on black Twitter, and a bail fund has been set up to help Bree Newsome defray the legal costs associated with her arrest for removing the Confederate flag. Earlier: A woman identified as Bree Newsome was arrested Saturday after climbing the flagpole at the South…

After an intense manhunt, New Orleans police on Sunday arrested a 33-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a 22-year veteran of the Police Department, according to NOLA. Officers arrested Travis Boys, 33, a suspect in the Saturday shooting death of Officer Daryle Holloway, the report says. Boys was captured in the city’s Lower 9th Ward after…

Former Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is scheduled to be released from prison Monday to serve out the remaining three months of his prison term under house arrest, according to the Chicago Tribune. The 50-year-old entered prison on Oct. 29, 2013, after a conviction for misuse of about $750,000 in campaign funds, the report says.…

If Dylann Roof’s goal was to halt worship at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., it did not work. The church held service Sunday after police say Roof shot and killed nine people, including the beloved pastor, at the historically black church last week in an effort to start a race war, according…

Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell Jr. sparked outrage Friday when he appealed for sympathy for the family of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old self-professed racist who last week gunned down nine African Americans at prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. But the good news in this sad and disturbing story is…

A 2,000-word screed believed to be written by Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused shooter in the Charleston, S.C., church massacre, are the ramblings of a man with a deep-seated hatred toward blacks. The manifesto was discovered at lastrhodesian.com through a Reverse Whois lookup on domaintools.com and is registered to Roof, Gawker reports. “I have no…

A South Carolina judge—disciplined in the past for using the n-word in an open courtroom—Friday called for the community to rally around the family of accused church shooter Dylann Roof at a hearing, according to the New York Daily News. “We have victims—nine of them. But we also have victims on the other side,” Charleston…