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Chicago has tentatively agreed to a $4.9 million settlement for the family of a man whom police dragged from his cell while he was in handcuffs, the Chicago Tribune reports.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office has already set up briefings this week with city aldermen to notify them of the settlement with the family of Philip…

Authorities announced Monday that they had apprehended a second man accused of plotting to kill Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka, NJ.com reports. Jerry Jordan, 65, was arrested in his hometown of New Brunswick, N.J., on Friday, Newark police spokesman Capt. Derek Glenn said in a statement. Jordan had been wanted since March 30, when Baraka’s…

Maryland prosecutors are hoping to compel a second officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray to testify against a colleague, according to a court filing made available Monday, Reuters reports.  In the motion, filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court, prosecutors are asking a judge to make Police Officer Garrett Miller testify at the trial of…

On April 4, 1968, civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tenn., while standing on a balcony outside his motel room. King, who was in the city supporting striking sanitation workers, was 39 at the time.  The assassination left an indelible mark on the nation and on the civil…

James Dixon pleaded guilty to the beating death of a transgender woman in Harlem nearly three years ago, prosecutors confirmed Monday, DNAinfo New York reports.  The 25-year-old admitted to punching Islan Nettles, 21, to the ground after he and a group of friends walked by her just after midnight on Aug. 17, 2013. Dixon hit…

Former NBA stars Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson are among 10 notables who were elected Monday to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016, the Washington Post reports.  Iverson spent his 14-year career playing with the Philadelphia 76ers, Detroit Pistons, Denver Nuggets and Memphis Grizzlies. A nine-time All-Star, Iverson famously clashed with…

Princeton University has decided to keep Woodrow Wilson’s name and image on campus, despite student complaints about the 28th U.S. president’s support of racial segregation, Reuters reports.  The prominent school’s board of trustees announced Monday that it would not be removing Wilson’s name or image from its public spaces or from its Woodrow Wilson School of…

An interracial couple was evicted from an RV park solely because of skin color, leaving the pair—who say they had never faced discrimination before—in shock, the Clarion-Ledger reports.  “Me and my husband, not ever in 10 years have we experienced any problem,” Erica Flores Dunahoo, who is Hispanic and Native American, told the new site.…

Nine Duke University students have occupied an administrative building on campus, demanding that three senior university officials resign after an incident in which a parking attendant was reportedly called a “stupid n—ger,” Gawker reports. The alleged incident unfolded Aug. 30, 2014, before a football game against Elon. The executive vice president of the school hit…

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article quoted Tony Hollis and identified him as president of the Mississippi County chapter of the NAACP. Since the story was first reported, WREG has posted an update indicating that “Tony Hollis told WREG he was the president of the Mississippi County Chapter of the NAACP. The chapter…