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“Dump Trump.” That’s what a group of Hispanic leaders and protesters are calling on NBC’s Saturday Night Live to do regarding Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is slated to host the popular comedy sketch show on Saturday. If not, protesters plan to march outside the studio with “Dump Trump” placards and chants, according to…

Calling it a “poor choice,” an Arizona Native American leader apologized this week for wearing blackface while dressed as Bob Marley on Halloween. “Recently, I posted on my Facebook page a picture of my Halloween costume dressed up in reggae style,” Terry Rambler, chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, wrote in a…

Just days after a 6-year-old Louisiana boy was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between his father and police, two officers have been arrested in child’s death, according to the New York Times. Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, and Lt. Derrick Stafford, 32, were both charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in the…

An Arizona Native American leader who has been adamant about his efforts to have the Washington Redskins’ name changed because it’s offensive to American Indians posted a photo of himself in blackface dressed as Bob Marley. According to the New York Post, Terry Rambler, chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, posted the…

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson’s campaign admits that the former neurosurgeon never received a full-scholarship offer to attend the prestigious U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a claim that Carson wrote about in his autobiography, Gifted Hands. According to Politico, in the book Carson says he was offered and subsequently turned down a full scholarship…

A Philadelphia woman who kept mentally disabled adults locked in the basement of her home so that she could collect and cash their disability checks was sentenced to life plus 80 years in prison Thursday. Linda Weston, 55, pleaded guilty in September to all 196 counts against her, which included kidnapping, racketeering, conspiracy and murder…

Chicago police now believe that a 9-year-old boy who was shot and killed earlier this week was lured into an alley by a gang because of his father’s relationship with a rival gang. “Tyshawn Lee was murdered in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I’ve witnessed in 35 years of policing,” Chicago Police…

More than 1,500 Berkeley High students staged a protest after a Web page made to look like the school’s home page made references to the Ku Klux Klan and included racial slurs and threats against black students, including a note reading, “Public lynching December 9th 2015.” According to the Contra Costa Times, students at the…