New video footage of NFL free agent Ray Rice in the aftermath of the infamous February assault against his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer, surfaced Saturday in the news. Security-camera footage released exclusively by ABC News shows Palmer shortly after the assault as she is questioned by police in the lobby of an Atlantic City, N.J., casino…

Amid escalating tensions between police and some New York City communities, a lone gunman, who reportedly vowed online to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, allegedly killed two officers execution-style in a patrol car before running to a subway station and killing himself, authorities said, according to…

Lowell Steward, a former Tuskegee Airman who flew nearly 200 missions in Europe during World War II, died Wednesday at a hospital in Ventura, Calif., The Guardian reports. He died of natural causes, said his son Lowell Steward Jr.   Steward joined the Army Air Corps and trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama…

North Korea on Saturday proposed an investigation with the United States into the hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, warning of “serious” consequences if Washington rejects a probe that Pyongyang says will clear it of orchestrating the breach, the Associated Press reports. Analysts viewed the proposal as a charade by North Korea to try to…

A Missouri lawmaker has accused St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch of “manipulating” the grand jury in the explosive Ferguson, Mo., case to clear white Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown, the Associated Press reports. State Rep. Karla May (D-St. Louis) called for the…

After an uproar over information in emails stolen and leaked by hackers allegedly working for North Korea, Sony has hired crisis consultant Judy Smith, according to the Hollywood Reporter, citing a report at TMZ. Smith is the real-life inspiration for Kerry Washington’s popular character Olivia Pope in the ABC TV series Scandal. The report says…

The FBI is investigating hate crimes in a rural Florida county where three predominantly black churches were recently defaced with racist graffiti scrawl, according to the International Business Times, which cites a report at the Tallahassee Democrat. The latest case was discovered Wednesday when members of Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church in Crawfordville in Wakulla…

The Associated Press is reporting that three cardboard cutouts of black people were found hanging by nooses Saturday on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. University spokeswoman Amy Hamaoui said police are investigating the incident to determine who hanged the effigies, which were found at two prominent campus locations Saturday morning, the report…

Amid a welter of decades-old allegations of sexual assault, embattled actor and comedian Bill Cosby broke his silence recently, placing the burden on black media outlets to remain neutral in the widening scandal, the Hollywood Reporter writes, citing a piece at the New York Post. “Let me say this,” Cosby told the New York Post Friday.…

As a nation marched against police violence in the black community, the Associated Press reports that the St. Louis prosecutor on Saturday quietly released additional documents from the investigation into the police shooting death of Michael Brown, including an interview transcript of a friend who reported seeing the teen get shot in the back. St.…