On Tuesday evening around 10 p.m., the first day of a citywide curfew, only dozens of Baltimore protesters were in the streets, in stark contrast to the hundreds who demonstrated Monday night. Police fired tear gas canisters at some demonstrators who continued to defy orders to leave, and by midnight, 10 people had been arrested.…

Freddie Gray was laid to rest Monday morning, and Monday evening Baltimore was ablaze. According to the Baltimore Sun, some 27 protesters were arrested and more than a dozen police officers were injured in separate incidents. Police confirmed to the Sun that shots were fired at police around 10 p.m. “Too many people have spent…

Police were called to the Delaware home of a couple after an argument between the two turned violent. By the time authorities arrived, they found 37-year-old Adeyinka Adebamiro unconscious on the floor suffering from a stab wound to the upper body. Paramedics pronounced him dead shortly after their arrival. The victim’s wife, Temitope Adebamiro, has been…

If there is a high school student who hasn’t seen Selma, Paramount Home Media Distribution is hoping to change that. On Friday the movie company announced that every high school—public and private—in the U.S. will receive a free copy of the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, which is available in digital HD and is set…

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who allegedly beat, sexually assaulted and robbed a woman on a Chicago subway train turned her son over to police after she saw surveillance photos of the attacker that had been captured on subway cameras. According to the Chicago Tribune, DeShawn Isabelle was on an empty subway car around 3…

It took years to make the biggest fight in boxing history a reality and less than 60 seconds for the tickets to sell out. Tickets went on sale for the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 2 around 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday and were sold…

WNBA players Brittney Griner and her fiancee, Glory Johnson, both 24, were arrested Wednesday for a domestic dispute that included allegations of assault. According to AZ Central, Griner, center for the Phoenix Mercury, and Johnson, a forward for the Tulsa Shock, were arrested “on suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct.” AZ Central notes that Griner…

Freddie Gray was able to walk April 12 when he was handcuffed and put inside a Baltimore police van. Forty minutes later, his spine was broken. A week later, he was dead. The optics of those 40 minutes as a mathematical equation look somewhat familiar: White police officers plus black man plus 40 minutes in…

Ben Affleck isn’t quite apologizing for not wanting his ancestor’s slave-owning past to be revealed on the PBS genealogy show Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr., but he did admit that finding out was “embarrassing.” Leaked emails between the show’s executive producer (and The Root co-founder), Henry Louis Gates Jr., and top Sony…