Kyle Canty will have to pack his bags and return to the United States after Canadian officials rejected his asylum application, CBC News reports. The African-American citizen entered Canada back in September. He told border officials in Vancouver that he was coming for a visit but later filed for refugee status. Canty, pointing to Michael…

Baltimore public housing officials agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for up to $8 million with tenants who accused maintenance workers of sexual harassment, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the lawsuit, workers demanded sexual favors from the victims in exchange for making repairs. Those who refused the sexual advances endured life-threatening conditions in their…

The family of a 14-year-old black girl accuses Mall of America security guards of using excessive force to restrain her over a curfew violation, as the local NAACP calls for a boycott, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. According to Isabella Brown’s family, mall guards approached her around 5 p.m. on Dec. 26 and asked Isabella…

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.…