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Arthur Scott, a San Diego police sergeant, is suing his Police Department because he believes that a cartoon shown during a training event was “racist” and depicted an African-American officer as a “monkey,” KGTV reports. Scott says that when he tried to communicate his concerns about the video, he “was transferred to a different division,”…

Georgia high school linebacker Brian Bell recently committed to Florida State University, but since he is one of the defendants named in a wrongful death suit filed by Kendrick Johnson’s family, some people find that news very upsetting, WTXL reports. Kendrick Johnson was the Georgia high school student who was found dead, rolled up in a…

A 13-year-old Tennessee girl was shot in the head during a drive-by shooting and later died earlier this month, and on Tuesday, police officers arrested the man they believe is responsible: 19-year-old Joseph Hendry, WKRN reports. C’Asia Watkins was sound asleep in her Lebanon, Tenn., home on Jan. 5 when it “was riddled with bullets,”…

Michael Foster, 43, is white. Clarence Daniels, 62, is black. Both men live in Florida and met rather violently Tuesday at a Wal-Mart as Daniels shopped for coffee creamer for his wife. What Daniels didn’t know was that Foster had watched him leave his car and saw him put his legally registered firearm into his…

The father of two children who allegedly bullied another child has lost his job after the bullied child’s father posted an emotional YouTube video noting how both the children and their father reportedly called him and his daughter “n—ger.” Confused? Follow me. Brad Knudson and his wife adopted an African-American girl 11 years ago. On…

After months of investigating by the FBI, early reports show that the U.S. Justice Department won’t be filing civil rights charges against former Ferguson, Mo., Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot unarmed teen Michael Brown, according to the New York Times.  The news comes a day after President Barack Obama referenced Brown in his State…

The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., was one of 14 recipients Tuesday night of an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, with Gates honored for his PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. The six-part documentary explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies,…