The Berkeley, Calif., NAACP chapter said that black students at Berkeley High School feel “deeply shaken” by the racist threat from a student there and will closely watch how the school board responds, according to the Contra Costa Times. “I hope the school board understands how serious this is. The black community sees this as…

Black students at the University of Missouri increased pressure on the school’s president, Tim Wolfe, to step down over his handling of campus racism. On Saturday night, a group of black athletes said they will stop playing football until Wolfe resigns, ESPN reports. “The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed reclassifying marijuana to allow research into medical use of the drug, according to NewsOne. Clinton noted that several states have legalized marijuana, and she would like to see how it works there before taking that step at the federal level. “The problem with medical marijuana is that there’s a…

The Associated Press has found that about 1,000 police officers have had their law-enforcement licenses revoked for sexual misconduct while in uniform. AP based its yearlong study on a state-by-state search of decertification records. It covered a six-year period, 2009-2014, during which 550 officers lost their license for rape, extorting citizens into performing sexual acts…

The police say they believe they’ve caught the person who torched churches in the St. Louis area. Authorities announced Friday the arrest of David Lopez Jackson, who has been charged with the arson of two churches, according to the Washington Post. “Hopefully, there are more charges coming,” said St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson, referring…

Scores of people gathered Saturday at Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in West Palm Beach, Fla., to say their final farewells to Corey Jones. He was laid to rest, with his drumsticks inside his casket, during a nearly four-hour funeral, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Police Officer Nouman Raja killed Jones in…

St. Louis County Police said Saturday that the county medical examiner’s autopsy concluded that Amonderez Green died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound under the chin, the Associated Press reports. The bullet was fired from a .38-caliber revolver, which is the same type of gun that police said Green used during a shootout with them. According…

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is facing backlash over his comments at a police-brutality protest over the weekend. New York City’s police union is calling on New Yorkers to boycott the Academy Award-winning director’s movies, the New York Daily News reports. “It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater,…

GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson is comparing yet another public policy he rejects to slavery. This time, it’s a woman’s right to have an abortion. The retired neurosurgeon told NBC’s Chuck Todd Sunday that abortion should be outlawed, with almost no exceptions—equating women who abort their pregnancies to “slave owners,” the Washington Post reports. “During…

Donald Trump sees no need to apologize to Ben Carson for comments he made yesterday about Carson’s religion, according to ABC News. The Republican presidential hopeful noted at a rally in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday that he is a Presbyterian—a denomination that he described as “down the middle of the road.” He then made a…