Harmony Jones lives in Memphis, Tenn., and was excited about her 10th-birthday party last week, which included a sleepover at her house. But Harmony’s parents were shocked to learn that one of their daughter’s friends at Highland Oaks Elementary wouldn’t be able to attend the festivities because Harmony is black. Fox 13 reports that Harmony’s…

Shanesha Taylor, the Phoenix woman whose tearful mug shot went viral after she was arrested for leaving her two small children in her car while she attended a job interview, has pleaded guilty to child abuse. According to AZ Central, after Taylor’s arrest March 20, 2014, a crowdfunding campaign raised $114,000 in donations, and Taylor’s…

Two plainclothes Los Angeles police officers traveling in an unmarked car sustained minor injuries in a shooting Sunday afternoon at the intersection where officers fatally shot unarmed Ezell Ford last year. According to the Los Angeles Times, the two unnamed officers were driving at 65th Street and Broadway when several men opened fire. The officers…

James Robertson, the Detroit man whose story of walking some 21 miles to and from his job went viral and included an outpouring of donations, has taken out a restraining order against his ex-girlfriend, who reportedly wants some of his newfound wealth. “He said he was going to give me $50,000 to fix up the…

Police arrested a 16-year-old girl Thursday in connection with the savage beating of a teenage girl caught on tape inside a McDonald’s in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. According to the New York Daily News, Aniah Ferguson, who police note can be seen during the three-minute attack wearing a hoodie and then only…

A 15-year-old girl who was brutally beaten inside a McDonald’s restaurant in Brooklyn, N.Y., has refused to speak with police about the attack—which happened Monday and went viral after footage was loaded to Facebook. She apparently fears retaliation from the girls, who police believe to be members of a gang called the Young Savages. According…

Two police officers in Ferguson, Mo., were shot outside police headquarters early Thursday morning after protesters gathered there following news that embattled Police Chief Thomas Jackson would be resigning. According to the Associated Press, a 32-year-old officer from Webster Groves, Mo., was shot in the face and a 41-year-old St. Louis County officer was shot…

Turns out it’s hip-hop’s fault for the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon frat members’ racist chant that included the lyrics, “There will never be a n—ger SAE/There will never be a n—ger SAE/You can hang him from a tree, but he will never sign with me/There will never be a n—ger SAE.” According to…

The fallout from a video that captured members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter singing a racist chant continued Tuesday as university President David Boren announced that two students have been expelled. Boren said that both students, Parker Rice and Levi Pettit, played “a leadership role” during the party-bus ride’s racist sing-along. Thank you for…

Just days after video emerged of members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racist chant, new footage has popped up that appears to show the fraternity’s housemother spouting the n-word repeatedly. On Monday the Oklahoma Daily, the student newspaper, published the Vine video, which appears to show Beauton Gilbow spouting…