The millennial generation is less tolerant of offensive language directed at minorities. A Pew report released on Friday said that 40 percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 support the idea of the government limiting hate speech targeting minorities, Newsweek reports. By contrast, older generations tend to support free speech at higher rates. Only 27…

University of Kansas officials placed a white professor on paid leave after her students filed a complaint over her use of the n-word during a lecture on racism, the Lawrence Journal-World reports. Professor Andrea Quenette, 33, said that school officials notified her on Friday about the formal complaint. Her supervisors agreed to her request for…

Protesters encamped at a Minneapolis police station demanded the prosecution of the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, the Associated Press reports. Mel Reeves, a longtime Minneapolis civil rights activist, told AP on Saturday night that witness statements are enough to get the process started. He said the officers…

A federal court in Iowa accused an alleged white supremacist on Wednesday of a hate crime for viciously beating a semiconscious black man in a racially motivated attack, the Associated Press reports. Randy Joe Metcalf, 40, was out on bond, awaiting trial on state assault charges for the attack, when federal authorities arrested him Tuesday.…

According to a new study, only half of young black people expect to live past age 35, the Huffington Post reports. On Monday the American Sociological Association and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior released the study (pdf), which asked more than 17,000 young people to predict their longevity. According to the Huffington Post, two out of three…

A top NBC executive apologized to members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus after using the “i-word” in reference to undocumented immigrants during a meeting with the lawmakers, Politico reports. While discussing NBC’s integration with Telemundo, its Spanish-language network, NBC News President Deborah Turness gave an example about how it had covered Pope Francis’ U.S. visit.…

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has hired Burrell Communications, a black-owned advertising and marketing firm, to help it focus on black voters, NBC News reports. African Americans demonstrated their strength when they turned out in historic numbers to support President Barack Obama’s two presidential campaigns. But will they show up for Clinton? The former secretary of…

The Cleveland police officers who fatally shot Tamir Rice filed a legal motion Friday to dismiss the medical-indifference claim alleged in the wrongful death lawsuit of Tamir’s family, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.   Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback argued in the motion (pdf) that they “did not show a deliberate indifference to…

Foreign policy was the primary focus of Saturday night’s Democratic presidential debate in Iowa. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fielded tough questions on the night following the terrorist attack in Paris, NBC reports.    Clinton has more foreign policy experience than rivals Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. Yet…

Virginia’s attorney general lacks the authority to take over the investigation into Linwood Lambert Jr.’s death, his spokeswoman said, according to the Associated Press. MSNBC was first to obtain a video that shows South Boston, Va., police officers shooting a handcuffed Lambert, 46, multiple times with Tasers. The incident happened in 2013, and black leaders…