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A 7-year-old Colorado girl came home with a note from the teacher. The note, according to the girl’s father, used nicknames and included a photo of the male teacher sticking his tongue out. “As I read over the letter, it was concerning since it had the teacher’s face and he was using pet names to…

On Tuesday, cellphone video showing some five Stockton, Calif., police officers violently arresting a teen for jaywalking went viral on social media. Since then, demonstrations have been held in and around Northern California to protest the use of force against the teen, who says he did nothing wrong. Emilio Mayfield, 16, told CBS Sacramento that…

Montreal Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban is one of the most hated players in the NHL, and he is also one of the most generous. According to CBC News, Subban will donate $10 million to the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation over the next seven years. The donation will be used to fund P.K.’s Hands, which will…

A Boston transit cop has been reassigned to administrative duty after a video emerged of a violent encounter between him and a female passenger aboard a bus filled with fightened and startled passengers, according to the Boston Globe. The video shows the unnamed transit officer raising his baton and repeatedly striking the woman, who is…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson absolutely “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” he said in an interview with NBC News that aired Sunday morning. “I absolutely would not agree with that,” the lone black Republican presidential candidate told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd during a discussion about…

During a short but hard-hitting speech to African-American leaders Saturday, President Barack Obama pushed for “greater focus on helping black women who are more likely to be stuck in minimum wage jobs, have higher rates of illness and face higher rates of incarceration than other women,” according to the Washington Post. He made the statement…

In a strange case of blaming the victim, lawyers for New York City say the family of a woman murdered at her home in New York City’s East Harlem community does not deserve a court settlement because the 23-year-old woman should have known the risks of living in public housing, according to the New York…

A Georgia couple on Friday said that they forgive their two sons accused of brutally beating and trying to suffocate them earlier this month at their home in suburban Atlanta, according to WSB-TV 2. Speaking outside Gwinnett County Courthouse in Lawrenceville, Ga., Yvonne and Zachery Ervin told the television news station that they “hold no…

The FBI arrested a 21-year-old friend of confessed Charleston, S.C., church shooter Dylann Roof on Thursday on charges that he lied to investigators and concealed information at the beginning of the probe, according to Yahoo! News. Joseph Meek, 21, with whose family Roof lived for a short time before the shootings took place June 17 at…

A 45-year-old Whitney, Texas, man was arrested Friday on a misdemeanor charge of filing a false police report after officials concluded that it was he who wrote “Black Lives Matter” and other graffiti on his pickup truck as part of a hoax, reports Raw Story. Scott Lattin, 45, a disabled veteran, claimed on Sept. 8…