This is what I do whenever I see flashing lights in my rearview mirror: I put on my hazard lights and pull over as soon as safely possible. Then I put the car in park, roll down both front windows fully, turn off the engine, take the keys out of the ignition and dangle them…

President Barack Obama took a break from his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., to speak on the rising tensions surrounding police and protesters in Ferguson, Mo., where an unarmed 18-year-old was fatally shot by a police officer Saturday. The president called for calm and asked for protesters and police to “take a step back.”  “Now…

For Debra Harrell, the South Carolina mother arrested in June for letting her daughter play in a park alone, the ordeal is not over. Local ABC affiliate WJBF News Channel 6 obtained and posted Harrell’s police interrogation video and personal information, including her Social Security number. In the video, Harrell can be heard answering the police officer’s…

It was another tear-gas-filled night in Ferguson, Mo., as protesters continued to demand justice in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a still-unnamed police officer. A militarized police force with riot gear and SWAT vehicles continued to demand that protesters disperse around 9 p.m., according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But demonstrators were…

An African-American math teacher who had been given three warnings for foul language and eventually was dismissed after she was found to have called students “lazy n—gers” may be given her job back after a technicality in her firing, WJXT reports.   According to the news station, Florida teacher Joyce Quiller ran a “profanity-laced classroom”…

Black children face a 50 percent likelihood of developing diabetes during their lifetime. This staggering figure is according to a study published Wednesday in The Lancet, Mother Jones reports. Compare that with only a 40 percent chance for American children overall. The epidemiologists who conducted the study based their findings on mortality data for nearly…

During their childhood spent in Harlem, retired NBC Universal executive Paula Madison and her two brothers knew they were different. On strolls through their predominantly black neighborhood with their mother, Nell Vera Lowe—who was half Jamaican and half Chinese—their obvious Asian heritage made them magnets for stares and questions about their ethnicity. Madison remembers her…

Editor’s note: In a Grapevine blog earlier today, we recounted the experience of a passenger on board Spirit Airlines, who claimed to have seen an African-American passenger denied a seat and sent to the back of the plane when a white man refused to move. Spirit Airlines contacted us about the incident and was insistent…