The BBC is reporting that a unified African army that can quickly respond to crises impacting the continent is coming to fruition. The BBC writes: “From January 2016, the African Standby Force (ASF) will be able to intervene...
Craig Melvin and Erik Ortiz of NBC News are reporting that Deputy Ben Fields has been fired after video of him assaulting a high school student went viral. The reporters write: “The school resource officer who was caught on ...
BBC News is reporting South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, 28, has been released from prison nearly one year after he was jailed for killing his girlfriend. He is expected to spend the remainder of a five-...
Writing for The Nation, Dave Zirin examines the seven things that we learned from Thabo Sefolosha, the Atlanta Hawks guard whose leg was broken by NYPD, who then charged him with a slew of misdemeanors to add insult to his injury....
Steve Almasy of CNN is reporting that reports prepared for the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor by two experts say the police shooting death of Tamir Rice, an unarmed 12-year-old boy playing with a pellet gun, was “reasonable.R...
Erica L. Green of The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a threat against the Charles Theater, screening Stanley Nelson’s critically-acclaimed documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, caused the evacuation of...
UPDATE: (9/10/15) A judge has ruled that the criminal trials against the six officers accused of killing Freddie Gray will remain in Baltimore, MD. Read more at NBC News. Yvonne Wenger and Mark Puente of The Baltimore Sun are rep...
Faith Karimi of CNN is reporting three Americans Anthony Sadler, Alex Skarlatos, Spencer Stone along with a French National and Briton, subdued a would-be terrorist on a high-speed train traveling from Paris to Amsterdam. T...
Tyler Whetstone of the Jackson Sun is reporting that the headstone of a relative of the celebrated author and historian Alex Haley has been defaced with racist graffiti. Whetstone writes: “The tombstone of a relative of auth...
Madeleine Davies of Jezebel.com is reporting Charnesia Corley, a 21-year-old black woman from Houston, Texas, was pulled over by a police officer in June and vaginally searched because the officer claimed he smelled marijuana in h...
