A 15-year-old Pine Hills, Fla., boy is suffering from second-degree burns after he and a friend were reportedly playing the “fire challenge,” in which participants douse themselves in flammable liquid and then light themselves on fire. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Robert Seals went to a friend’s house near his home Monday. Police say that…

Philadelphia police are searching for five to six men they believe robbed and brutally beat a transgender woman early Tuesday morning before fatally shooting her in the back. Capt. James Clark told WPVI that footage shows Keisha Jenkins, 22, getting out of a car around 2:30 a.m. Police say they received a call shortly after…

An African-American garbage-hauling company has filed a $24 million lawsuit against the city of Chicago, a waste-removal company and a teamsters union, claiming that the trio conspired to keep the minority-owned business from competing for Chicago garbage contracts.  According to the Cook County Record, Linda and Jesse McGee, owners of Linda Construction Inc., claim that…

A Providence, R.I., police officer went into a local Dunkin’ Donuts Friday looking for a hot cup of coffee, but he claims he was given a hot cup of attitude and a social-justice hashtag on the side of his cup. According to ABC 6, the officer, who didn’t want to be named, says he was…

President Barack Obama has chosen Deputy Education Secretary John King Jr. to succeed Arne Duncan to oversee the Education Department. According to NBC New York, King, formerly New York State commissioner of education, was not nominated by the president for his new position, a move that would have required confirmation by the Republican-run Senate. Instead,…

Updated Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6 p.m. EDT: Dan Andriacco, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, issued a statement about the incident, noting that the girl is Asian, not white, as was reported by various media. The archdiocese also indicated that in addition to the African-American boy, a white boy was also suspended in the incident.…

Texas mom Roni Dean-Burren took to YouTube to call out book publishing giant McGraw-Hill after she opened her son’s World Geography textbook and noticed a slight change in history, ABC 13 reports. In the section titled, “Patterns of Immigration,” Dean-Burren noticed that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was considered immigration and that slaves were referred to as…

Phyllis McDole, the mother of a Delaware man in a wheelchair whose fatal shooting by police was captured on video, was arrested for allegedly beating a woman she believed called the police on her son, but according to police, the victim was not the 911 caller. Wilmington police fatally shot Jeremy McDole, 28, Sept. 23…

Members of the Sistahs on the Reading Edge book club, who were kicked off California’s Napa Valley Wine Train in August, have filed suit against the train’s owners, seeking $11 million in damages, charging that they were singled out because the majority of the group is black and that they were humiliated for supposedly “being too…

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Woman hired into a top-level position for a job with heavy racial focus is let go after people protest whether said woman is, in fact, being truthful about her race. On Thursday, Dartmouth announced that newly hired Native American Program Director Susan Taffe Reed, who claimed she was…