A Boston transit cop has been reassigned to administrative duty after a video emerged of a violent encounter between him and a female passenger aboard a bus filled with fightened and startled passengers, according to the Boston Globe. The video shows the unnamed transit officer raising his baton and repeatedly striking the woman, who is…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson absolutely “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” he said in an interview with NBC News that aired Sunday morning. “I absolutely would not agree with that,” the lone black Republican presidential candidate told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd during a discussion about…

During a short but hard-hitting speech to African-American leaders Saturday, President Barack Obama pushed for “greater focus on helping black women who are more likely to be stuck in minimum wage jobs, have higher rates of illness and face higher rates of incarceration than other women,” according to the Washington Post. He made the statement…

In a strange case of blaming the victim, lawyers for New York City say the family of a woman murdered at her home in New York City’s East Harlem community does not deserve a court settlement because the 23-year-old woman should have known the risks of living in public housing, according to the New York…