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In an effort to draw attention to police brutality and racial injustice, scores of mothers marched Saturday in Washington, D.C., to call attention to the problems, reports USA Today. Maria Hamilton, founder of Mothers for Justice United, helped organize the Million Moms March along with the Coalition for Justice, the report says. Dontre, Hamilton’s 31-year-old…

Two brothers and a woman were arrested early Sunday on charges of shooting and killing two Hattiesburg, Miss., police officers during a routine traffic stop that took place just hours earlier, according to the Chicago Tribune. Marvin Banks, 29, and Joanie Calloway, 22, have each been charged with two counts of capital murder, and Banks’…

After months of alleged squabbling among family members as Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, remains hospitalized, lawyers for her father, Bobby, as well as for her grandmother Cissy Houston and aunt Pat Houston, issued a statement Friday about who will oversee the medical care of the 22-year-old, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Bobby Brown and Pat…

Editor’s note: First lady Michelle Obama’s speech to the graduating class at Tuskegee University Saturday, May 9, 2015, was transcribed by the White House. Mrs. Obama: Thank you all. [Applause.] Thank you so much. [Applause.] Let’s let our graduates rest themselves. You’ve worked hard for those seats! [Applause.] Let me start by thanking President Johnson…

In the wake of a scandal over racist and homophobic text messages that rocked the San Francisco Police Department, the city’s prosecutors have dismissed at least eight criminal cases out of concerns about bias among 14 officers, reports the Associated Press. District attorney’s spokesman Max Szabo told the news agency Friday that the department did…

Charles Craddock of Cleveland is studying mechanics at a local community college, and he needs a steady job to help pay his tuition, ABC News reports. So it was a godsend when the 20-year-old landed a job recently as a food-service associate at Cedar Point amusement park, which describes itself as the “roller coaster capital…

In a court motion filed Friday, lawyers for six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray called for the charges to be dismissed and/or for State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby to be removed from the case, according to Time magazine. The papers filed in Baltimore City District Court list multiple concerns, CNN…

What began as a joke for Edgar Antillon, the Latino owner of a barbecue restaurant in Milliken, Colo., has become, well, a thing that shows America’s race problem is not limited to policing. NBC News is reporting that Antillon plans to host “White Appreciation Day” on June 11 at his Rubbin’ Buttz restaurant, offering white…

In August 2013, Dover, Del., police officers were responding to a call regarding a major fight happening outside a Hess gas station. When the first units arrived, the men involved in the melee ran. Cpl. Thomas Webster IV, 41, and another officer responded to the scene and began searching for men who may have been…

The world is already aware that many of the women and girls abducted by Boko Haram have been sexually assaulted and forced to convert to Islam and then into marriage. Now it is being reported that some 214 out of the 234 women and girls who were recently rescued by Nigerian authorities are visibly pregnant,…