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Texas police are not backing down or apologizing for arresting a man for drunken driving, even though his Breathalyzer result showed no hint of intoxication, the Raw Story reports. Larry Davis was arrested Jan. 13 after he ran a stop sign, the news site notes. Davis—who, officers on the scene said, appeared to be drunk—defended…

Cellphone video has been released showing five Moore, Okla., police officers restraining Luis Rodriguez, an Oklahoma man who later died in custody, the Associated Press reports. The six-minute footage—which shows officers holding Rodriguez facedown on the ground, with one officer holding his head down—was acquired from the phone of Nair Rodriguez, his wife, who started…

For the second year in a row, Vice President Joe Biden used his remarks at his Black History Month reception to emphasize that the fight for voting rights didn’t end during the civil rights movement and to lament that fair access to the ballot remains an unsettled political issue. “The zealotry of those who wish…

Some African-American religious leaders are calling for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to be impeached for his support of gay-marriage laws, backed up by a push to have them federally recognized, regardless of state laws, UPI reports. “The attorney general of the United States should be impeached over his repeated lawlessness in attempting to impose…

“My 3-year-old daughter attends preschool at a public charter in Washington, D.C. The school draws students citywide through a lottery system and is very diverse (a black plurality, with significant Latino and Asian populations). In her classroom of 18, she is one of four white children. “We opt to pay for the school-provided lunch, for…