Seven people were shot and critically injured early Saturday after mayhem erupted at a spring-break house party in Panama City Beach, Fla., according to USA Today. The coastal community is known as “the Spring Break Capital of the World,” the report says. Bay County Sheriff’s deputies are still trying to determine what sparked the shooting,…

At the annual Black Girls Rock ceremony Saturday in New Jersey, Michelle Obama celebrated “the beauty, power and tenacity of black women while spreading her own message of education,” the Associated Press reports. “No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful,” Obama told the crowd of mostly young black…

St. Louis police are searching for an African-American man in his 20s who assaulted a white man Monday supposedly for declining to answer a question about Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old who was fatally shot last August by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., CNN reports. The attack occurred late Monday aboard a…

Detroit residents gathered Friday to bid farewell to two siblings whose bodies were found this week in a freezer—allegedly put there by their mother—and to call on the community to unite against child abuse, according to the Detroit News. Autopsies conducted Friday on Stoni Blair, 13, and her brother Stephen Berry, 9, determined that they…

Nearly two weeks after issuing a strong condemnation of a racist chant that reverberated across the nation and resulted in the closing of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter, SAE leaders on Friday acknowledged that the song was likely taught at a national event four years ago, CNN reports. Members of the group’s…

Taraji P. Henson was roundly applauded on social media this week over actions she took after claiming that police in Glendale, Calif., racially profiled her son, Marcell, during a traffic stop. In a recent interview with Uptown magazine, she said she was sending her son to Howard University after he was profiled on the campus…

A white Oklahoma mayoral candidate has apologized to voters after videos surfaced of him wearing blackface and performing in drag as a black woman named Pollyester Kotton, according to Think Progress. Bill Helton, who is currently serving as Elk City’s commissioner and works as a hairstylist, claims that the character was inspired by one of his African-American…

The U.S. Army is investigating allegations that soldiers on a base in Alaska were given a pass to hurl racial slurs at one another during so-called Racial Thursdays, according to Army Times. The soldiers are members of 2nd Platoon, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, a member of the unit told the Times. The…

Friends and family at a rally remembered Rekia Boyd Saturday as a trial date looms for the Chicago police detective accused in her fatal shooting, reports the Chicago Tribune. The officer, Dante Servin, was charged with involuntary manslaughter after, prosecutors say, he recklessly opened fire, over his shoulder, at a group of people on March…

The owner of a bar where University of Virginia student Martese Johnson was brutally arrested released a statement Saturday denying claims that the 20-year-old man was belligerent, according to NBC 29. Kevin Badke, owner of Trinity Irish Pub, issued the statement through his attorney. His description of his interaction with Johnson early Wednesday morning runs counter…