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…

FBI Director James B. Comey thinks the “Ferguson effect” is impeding law-enforcement efforts. He says that closer scrutiny of police officers makes them less aggressive and that this probably contributes to an increase in violent crime, according to the New York Times. Comey, speaking Friday at the University of Chicago Law School, lends credence to the…

In a nearly unanimous decision, the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate voted to remove the state’s flag from campus, according to WMC-TV.   The 41-1 vote late Thursday supports an earlier decision by the Student Body Senate also to take down the state flag, whose design includes the controversial Confederate battle flag. In the more…

Fort Worth, Texas, swore in its first black police chief Tuesday at a ceremony packed with the city’s top leaders, WFAA reports. He takes over at a challenging time. Fitzgerald replaces Jeff Halstead, who retired in January amid federal discrimination lawsuits filed by several black police officers. Black Lives Matter called for a rally in…

A proposal to place a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. on Stone Mountain in Georgia is coming under attack—from civil rights leaders and Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Atlanta and DeKalb County branches of the NAACP and the national office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference want to halt the plan because the site…

A federal judge sentenced Conrad Alvin Barrett on Friday to 71 months in prison for randomly attacking an elderly black man in Texas, breaking the victim’s jaw with a single punch, in what is dubbed the “knockout game,” the Huffington Post reports.   Barrett, 29, pleaded guilty last June to a federal hate crime charge for…

In a 5-4 vote Oct. 14, the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council in Louisiana rejected a proposal to open a temporary misdemeanor jail. There were widespread concerns that authorities would target poor black, nonviolent offenders, The Advocate reports. “We incarcerate more people than Cuba, Iran and North Korea combined, and our solution here is…

Samaria Rice, whose 12-year-old son, Tamir Rice, was fatally shot last year by a Cleveland police officer, said she wants a different prosecutor to handle the case, CBS News reports. “Since the senseless shooting of my son Tamir, I have had many sleepless nights and days—almost a year, no justice, no peace,” she said at…