news

The millennial generation is less tolerant of offensive language directed at minorities. A Pew report released on Friday said that 40 percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 support the idea of the government limiting hate speech targeting minorities, Newsweek reports. By contrast, older generations tend to support free speech at higher rates. Only 27…

University of Kansas officials placed a white professor on paid leave after her students filed a complaint over her use of the n-word during a lecture on racism, the Lawrence Journal-World reports. Professor Andrea Quenette, 33, said that school officials notified her on Friday about the formal complaint. Her supervisors agreed to her request for…

Model-turned-mogul Tyra Banks is leaving syndicated daytime show FABLife after about two months, saying that she wants to focus on building her cosmetics line, according to the Hollywood Reporter. There are currently no plans to replace Banks on the show, which is produced by Disney/ABC, notes the report. But a roster of big name co-hosts and contributors…

Protesters encamped at a Minneapolis police station demanded the prosecution of the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, the Associated Press reports. Mel Reeves, a longtime Minneapolis civil rights activist, told AP on Saturday night that witness statements are enough to get the process started. He said the officers…

A black activist was attacked Saturday during a speech by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Birmingham, Ala., according to CBS News. Several recordings show Trump supporters pushing the man and kicking him to the ground. Before the melee, the unnamed man appeared to be shouting “Black lives matter,” which was also…

Angelikque Sutton, 22, and Ashleigh Wade, 22, were classmates in the Wakefield section of the Bronx, N.Y., relatives tell the New York Daily News. They recently rekindled their friendship after Wade reached out to Sutton, who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant and preparing for the baby’s arrival Dec. 2. She was registered at thebump.com for items…

The Department of Justice on Friday released a video of a “knockout game” attack against an elderly black man by a white man in a hate crime that resulted in the 29-year-old receiving a six-year federal prison sentence, according to CNN. Last month Conrad Alvin Barrett, 29, of Katy, Texas, was sentenced to six years…

Student protests at Princeton University have prompted officials to consider renaming buildings dedicated to former President Woodrow Wilson, who supported racial segregation, which was part of public policy at the time, mostly in Southern states, reports Reuters. The decision came after chief administrators signed a deal late Thursday with student demonstrators to end a 32-hour…

At least three suspects are being searched for by Malian security forces after allegedly unleashing a deadly assault Friday at the Radisson Blu hotel, killing 27 people, including an American health worker, according to the Associated Press. President Barack Obama said Friday that U.S. officials were still trying to account for other Americans “who may…