Decked in a T-Shirt emblazoned with the names of murdered black men, including Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin, British singer and producer Devonté Hynes alleges he was attacked by security guards after a recent performance at Lollapalooza, Buzzfeed reports. Hynes, known as Blood Orange, announced on Twitter that he and his girlfriend, Samantha Urbani, were assaulted…

The first Ebola victim brought to the United States from Africa arrived in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday amid hysteria and outrage from some Americans concerned that the deadly disease could escape an isolation unit at one of the nation’s top hospitals and spread, the Associated Press reports. Dr. Kent Brantly, a missionary doctor who was infected…

Bruce Lawson thought he was bidding farewell to his 81-year-old mother last week at her funeral in Houston, Texas, KHOU11 reports. That’s why he was surprised when he received a call several days later saying her body was still at the funeral home, the report says. Mabrie Memorial Mortuary was calling to apologize, the news…

In the aftermath of the choke hold death of Eric Garner, some more officers with the New York Police Department may be in hot water after allegedly dragging a half-naked Brooklyn, N.Y., woman into the hall after responding to a domestic disturbance call, the New York Daily News reports. A police spokesman told the News…

Update: Saturday, Aug. 2, 2:53 p.m. EST: The Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday that he will lead a protest “march across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City later this month in response to a medical examiner’s ruling that Eric Garner was the victim of a homicide after police placed him in a chokehold last…

In a city known for its racially segregated communities, residents in a neighborhood in Chicago’s Hermosa community on the Northwest Side are pushing for integration for personal reasons, according to a note scrawled on a sign. “Wanted white people to play so the city will take care of this park,” the sign reads, according to…

On May 6, 1981, James Brown appeared with boxing legend Muhammad Ali on the late-night Tom Snyder show to introduce a young and unknown civil rights leader to the world. That young activist was the Rev. Al Sharpton, and he was Brown’s kind of black leader. The two had become fast friends during the 1970s and…

All those who want justice for Eric Garner—the Staten Island, N.Y., father who died after New York City police officers placed him in a choke hold during an arrest—will be relieved by this update. According to the Daily News, the New York City medical examiner has declared Garner’s death a homicide—by choke hold. Some of…

On June 27, black BART track-maintenance workers said they found graffiti messily drawn in black marker on three of their lockers. It read: “F-you [first name of worker] dies N-,” according to Jody LeWitter, an attorney representing the workers of California’s Bay Area Rapid Transit agency, SFGate reports. The employees said in a statement that…