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Oregon State fired head coach and Michelle Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson, Sunday night, according to Sports Illustrated. In six seasons with the Beavers, Robinson had a losing 95-104 record, with no NCAA tournament appearances. According to SI, the big surprise in the firing of the president’s brother-in-law is not that he was let go but…

A new study from the Center for American Progress and the National Education Association shows that the racial and ethnic backgrounds of U.S. teachers don’t reflect the diversity of their students. According to the study, nearly half of students who attend public schools are members of minority groups, while less than 1 in 5 of…

Loved ones gathered around a sign in 8-year-old Martin Cobb’s yard not far from the church he and his family attended in Richmond, Va. “Martin: A real hero lived, fought and died here,” the sign read. Martin died Thursday trying to fight off his 12-year-old sister’s attacker, authorities say. On Saturday a 16-year-old boy, whose…

Darius Adams, 17, was behaving aggressively when he arrived at his McIntosh, Ala., home around 2 a.m. Friday, his father told authorities. And the dad says he only meant to scare his son when he went to grab his gun. But the gun went off, hitting the McIntosh High School football player in the stomach…

Since I was a young and slightly overdeveloped girl on the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y.’s East Flatbush neighborhood, I’ve endured street harassment in the form of disrespectful, intimidating, sexualized verbal assaults by strange men. More and more, I’ve truly begun to understand how my experience is part of a larger troubling pattern. One incident in…

Following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declined an invitation Saturday to deliver the commencement address at Rutgers University, the Associated Press reports. In a statement, she told Rutgers President Robert Barchi that she was declining the invitation because she did not…

A trip to the mall ended in a deadly dispute when a pregnant woman fatally stabbed her boyfriend after he bought gifts for everyone, except her, police say, according to the Daily News. Police say Miata Phalen, 24, fatally stabbed the father of her unborn child, Larry Martin, 28, on April 30th at the apartment…

Saturday Night Live tackled the Donald Sterling scandal in its usual fashion, chastising everyone from the embattled owner of the Los Angeles Clippers himself to V. Stiviano, his companion, to the former head of the L.A. chapter of the NAACP. Cast member Bobby Moynihan played Sterling, who bragged about his black friends, alongside other regulars…

A trip to the mall ended in a deadly dispute recently when police say a pregnant woman stabbed her boyfriend to death after he bought gifts for everyone, except her, the Daily News reports. Police say Miata Phelan, 24, stabbed the father of her unborn child, Larry Martin, 28, on April 30 inside the apartment…