Leah Still is now among a celebrated list of sports champions like Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan who have appeared on their own Wheaties cereal box, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Her proud father, football player Devon Still, posted a photo of the cover on Instagram. The 5-year-old girl has faced ups and downs in her…

Prosecutors declined to file charges against the federal agent who fatally shot a black man in Detroit, the Associated Press reports. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Terrance Kellom, 20, during a raid at his home in April. Agent Mitchell Quinn says Kellom attacked him with a hammer, but Kellom’s family says it…

The Georgia NAACP says it’s time to end veneration of the Confederacy at a high school in southern Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The civil rights group is pressuring officials at Effingham County High School to change the school’s nickname, “Rebels,” because of its connection with the Confederacy during the Civil War. “It’s time for…

Shaun King, a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, denied accusations that he lied about being biracial and a victim of a brutal racial attack by a white mob, the New York Times reports. The Daily Caller, a right-wing conservative blog, has been circulating posts for weeks that question King’s honesty. One conservative…

Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay said he’s proud of an officer’s courage to “speak difficult truths” through his artwork, which protests police brutality against unarmed black men, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. “The preservation of human life, all human lives, is the most foundational value in the policing profession. His statement against police misconduct is not…

Israeli officials detained two black American Jewish converts in a holding cell for nearly two days at Ben Gurion Airport before sending them back to the United States, the Jerusalem Post reports. Idit Malka, 40, and her 10-year-old son, Kahxin, of Cape Coral, Fla., said that they landed in Israel on June 12. Malka told…

Jalyn Broussard went to kindergarten one day, proudly sporting a new hairstyle. But his modern fade quickly raised eyebrows among administrators at his Belmont, Calif., Catholic school. Officials called the 5-year-old’s mother to pick him up because his haircut violated the school’s standards. She was outraged. The school and Jalyn’s family reached a stalemate. According to…

A U.S. Department of Justice report finds significant faults in law enforcement’s response to the demonstrations last summer in Ferguson, Mo., over the slaying of Michael Brown, the Associated Press reports. State and local authorities antagonized demonstrators in several ways, such as using military-style equipment and inappropriately using tear gas. The DOJ also concluded that authorities…

Numerous people attended the Pickens County, Ala., NAACP meeting on June 29 to complain about false arrests from a drug sweep. The state’s NAACP said that the organization is launching an investigation, WBRC-TV reports. The claims stem from an 18-month drug operation that netted more than four dozen suspects. But many of them claim that…