Police officers were stationed on Monday outside the home of a Pennsylvania man who may have been involved in “a killing spree” in which six people were shot dead and one person severely injured, Al-Jazeera reports.  “The [alleged] gunman was identified as 35-year-old Bradley William Stone and described by authorities as being armed and dangerous,” the…

The families of nine of the 26 victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have filed a lawsuit against “the manufacturer, distributor and seller” of the rifle that was used by the gunman, Al-Jazeera reports. “The negligence and wrongful death lawsuit, filed in Bridgeport Superior Court on Monday, asserts…

Within social-justice movements, tensions often surface between older and youngster activists—that’s hardly new. But the Rev. Al Sharpton says that recent criticism that he isn’t doing enough to groom younger, up-and-coming activists within his civil rights tradition is simply not true. “This is more about ideology than it is about generational differences,” Sharpton told The…

It’s official. British actor David Oyelowo (pronounced oh-yellow-oh) is a bona fide star. He’s an actor whom viewers have been seeing over the last 15 years, but they may not have been able to put a name to his face, as we say in the United States. That’s about to change with Oyelowo’s portrayal of…

Analyses that evaluate the success of HBCUs by observing their six-year graduation rates often miss the mark. On the surface, graduation rates tell us little about a college’s or university’s ability to educate a racially and economically diverse student body. Few colleges and universities educate a majority low-income student body and also graduate the majority…

The FBI is investigating hate crimes in a rural Florida county where three predominantly black churches were recently defaced with racist graffiti scrawl, according to the International Business Times, which cites a report at the Tallahassee Democrat. The latest case was discovered Wednesday when members of Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church in Crawfordville in Wakulla…

The Associated Press is reporting that three cardboard cutouts of black people were found hanging by nooses Saturday on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. University spokeswoman Amy Hamaoui said police are investigating the incident to determine who hanged the effigies, which were found at two prominent campus locations Saturday morning, the report…

Amid a welter of decades-old allegations of sexual assault, embattled actor and comedian Bill Cosby broke his silence recently, placing the burden on black media outlets to remain neutral in the widening scandal, the Hollywood Reporter writes, citing a piece at the New York Post. “Let me say this,” Cosby told the New York Post Friday.…

As a nation marched against police violence in the black community, the Associated Press reports that the St. Louis prosecutor on Saturday quietly released additional documents from the investigation into the police shooting death of Michael Brown, including an interview transcript of a friend who reported seeing the teen get shot in the back. St.…