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In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a Pennsylvania attorney claims that at least 80 African Americans and other minority employees at American Airlines in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., were the victims of racial discrimination, according to NBC Philadelphia. The letter from the Philly-based Mildenberg Law Firm, which represents maintenance, catering and baggage…

Scuffles broke out Saturday at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia after members of the Ku Klux Klan held a rally to protest a decision to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the Statehouse, reports Al-Jazeera. About 100 members of the KKK and other white supremacist groups were greeted by about 400 African-American…

More damaging information about Bill Cosby surfaced Saturday with the publication of previously undisclosed testimony in which the actor himself describes how he took sexual advantage of young women. In stunning detail, the fallen 78-year-old television icon describes how he used his fame, drugs and manipulation to ensnare women to satisfy his sexual whims, according…

America is used to seeing President Barack Obama in his role as a world leader, but rarely as a father. On Saturday he changed things up, traveling to New York City with Sasha and Malia to spend some “father time” with his daughters and to attend a fundraiser, according to the New York Daily News.…

Since Friday, two men were killed and at least 17 other people were wounded in shootings on Chicago’s South and West sides, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Last weekend, six people died and 26 were wounded in shootings in Chicago, reports the Chicago Tribune. That’s not all. An estimated 135 more people have been shot…

A North Carolina man who covered his home with Confederate flags after the Charleston, S.C., church massacre was arrested on a parole violation and put behind bars this week, according to the Daily Mail. The man, Edward Lee West, 69, of Rocky Mount, N.C., was taken to Nash County jail on Wednesday on a probation-violation…

A trooper violated Texas Department of Public Safety procedures and the agency’s courtesy policy when he stopped Sandra Bland, who was jailed and days later was found dead in her cell in what police are calling an apparent suicide, reports Reuters. The trooper has been put on desk duty during an investigation by the FBI…

The mistress of former NFL player Buster Barnett reportedly killed his wife and herself after a miles-long police chase from Georgia into Alabama, according to 11Alive, WXIA. Lisa Brown reportedly kidnapped Sandra Barnett, 49, at her Ellenwood, Ga., home just outside Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon, escaping in a Dodge Durango reportedly owned by Buster Barnett.…

Mitchelle Blair, the Detroit woman who killed two of her four children and stuffed their bodies in the freezer, was sentenced to life in prison Friday and told the judge, “I don’t regret none of this. … I don’t feel no remorse for the death of them demons.” According to the New York Daily News,…