Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Friday that he’s calling on the state’s attorney general to investigate comments made by a local councilman, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. Jackson Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes said, “When you have these police officers coming from other jurisdictions and they will not respect human life, then I said we should…

Samaria Rice told MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Saturday that she’s “mad as hell” that a grand jury declined to indict the Cleveland cop who fatally shot her 12-year-old son, Tamir. “Due to the corrupt system, I have a dead child,” she told Harris-Perry. Rice added: “I feel like breath has been taken out my body again,…

The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab released a recruitment video Friday targeting African Americans and Muslims, which features Donald Trump, the Associated Press reports. It appeared on Twitter and reportedly recounts the stories of several Somali-Americans from Minnesota who journeyed to East Africa to fight alongside al-Shabab. The nearly hour-long video points to Ferguson, Mo., and…

Hillary Clinton is reaching out to South Carolina’s black families through an ad on black radio that debuts Tuesday. In the 60-second spot, the Democratic presidential candidate delivers a key message of her campaign: Raising wages “is the defining economic challenge of our time.” A narrator in the ad says that hardworking black families in…

A San Francisco Bay Area vice principal is spending the Christmas recess preparing to undergo a kidney transplant to save her former student, the Washington Post reports. Christine Buell is donating her organ on Dec. 29 to Kelvin Sanders, 19, who has end-stage renal disease. She learned from perusing Facebook about his sudden illness and…

It could cost South Carolina taxpayers up to $3.6 million to display a Confederate battle flag that flew over the Statehouse in a state museum, the Charlotte Observer reports. That proposed price tag is a markdown from the original $5.3 million that the commission for the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum voted to spend.…

Bobby Daniels’ family—some of them eyewitnesses to his death—held a news conference in suburban Atlanta Wednesday to tell their version of what led to his fatal shooting by a Douglas County, Ga., deputy, the Washington Post reports. Chris Stewart, the civil rights attorney representing the slain man’s family, said the relatives want law-enforcement officials to…

It’s unclear what led to a deadly shooting by Chicago police early Saturday morning. Two families are asking why officers responding to a domestic dispute killed a teenager and a woman, the Chicago Tribune reports. By that evening, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said that “anytime an officer uses force the public deserves answers, and regardless…

Ben Carson downplayed reports of plans to reorganize his apparently troubled presidential campaign—just hours after suggesting that a major shake-up was coming. Carson told CNN Wednesday night that reports of personnel changes and confusion in his camp were overhyped. But earlier that day, in a Washington Post interview, the GOP presidential candidate blamed his falling…