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Clemson University put its Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity chapter on probation for two years over a party the frat threw last Christmas, the Associated Press reports. An investigation found that the gang-themed party violated the university’s alcohol rules and student-conduct codes. Students attended the gathering, dubbed a “Cripmas” party, dressed like Crips and Bloods gang…

The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor, one of the leading voices on faith, politics and social justice during the civil rights movement, died Sunday of a heart attack, the New York Times reports. He was 96 years old. Taylor presided over a 10,000-member congregation in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the Concord Baptist Church of Christ from 1948…

A survey reported by the Associated Press found that white Americans approve of police use of force far more than black and Hispanic Americans do. About 70 percent of whites can imagine a circumstance in which they would approve of an officer striking an adult male. By contrast, only 42 percent of blacks and 38…

Officials in Tulsa, Okla., are investigating the “inadvertent” deadly shooting of a suspect. The Tulsa County reserve deputy who used his gun instead of his Taser is on administrative leave, according to CNN. The shooting occurred Thursday during an undercover operation by the Tulsa County Violent Crimes Task Force. Officials say the suspect, Eric Courtney…

The trial of a white Cleveland police officer began Monday in a case that triggered a federal investigation into the Cleveland Police Department’s use of deadly force. Michael Brelo faces two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the November 2012 deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, who were African American, after a high-speed chase. A…

Hakeem Kuta, a 17-year-old Bronx, N.Y., native, was smoking marijuana with others in the lobby of an apartment building in the New York City borough Thursday evening when police officers approached, according to Raw Story. The group began to run in different directions, and Hakeem and a 14-year-old friend ended up on the building’s rooftop,…

Kenya is retaliating against al-Shabab—the militant Islamic group that assumed responsibility for the campus shooting in Garissa last week that left 147 dead—and has bombed two al-Shabab camps in neighboring Somalia, the BBC reports. According to Kenyan military spokesman David Obonyo, Kenya launched the airstrikes Sunday night. Obonyo explained that the al-Shabab camps were located…

A school board president in Louisiana has come to the defense of Claudetteia Love, a high school senior. It says that Love, a lesbian, can wear a tux to her prom if she wants to, Raw Story reports, despite the arbitrary rule by the school’s principal that girls must wear dresses and guys must wear…

University of Kentucky guard Andrew Harrison apologized Sunday for directing an obscenity and a racial slur at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Frank Kaminsky during a Final Four postgame news conference, according to the Associated Press. Harrison, who is African American, muttered ”F—k that n—ger” into a live microphone when another player was asked a question…

A University of South Carolina student has been suspended after a photo surfaced on social media of her listing “n—gers,” among other things, as a reason the school’s Internet connection works improperly, President Harris Pastides said Friday, according to The State. The student, an unnamed white female, is captured in a photo writing the list…