The African-American book club that was booted from California’s Napa Valley Wine Train Saturday for what has been dubbed “laughing while black” was given a public apology Tuesday from the company’s CEO. “The Napa Valley Wine Train was 100 percent wrong in its handling of this issue,” Anthony “Tony” Giaccio said in a statement viewed by the…

In an opinion column published in USA Today Wednesday, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson blasted the Black Lives Matter movement, which he said he believes is “focused on the wrong targets,” and called its recent disruption of Bernie Sanders’ speeches “lunacy.” The retired neurosurgeon acknowledged that protesters are right “that racial policing issues exist and some rotten…

There is a flier being distributed in Southfield, Mich., that shows a photo of a Klansman in a hood pointing his gun at the head of a black child who couldn’t be more than 6. The black child is wearing a white hoodie and is extending a bag of Skittles to the man. Another flier…

On Saturday afternoon, the Sistahs on the Reading Edge, a book club made up of 11 African-American women, boarded a Napa Valley Wine Train in California, intent on having a good time. But what started off pleasantly turned into a “humiliating” experience after the women were escorted off the train for laughing and talking too…

Peggy Hubbard, an Illinois mother, has a message for the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and she took to Facebook to voice her concerns. In a video posted to her Facebook page, Hubbard said she believes that the outrage over the Aug. 19 St. Louis police shooting of 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey, whom she calls a “thug,” was misdirected.…

Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, was was shot and killed by St. Louis police officers Wednesday, reportedly died from a single gunshot wound to the back, according to an autopsy, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson urged patience to those who may conclude that the bullet’s location disproves the initial police report…

Jamyla Bolden was in bed Tuesday at 9:30 p.m., doing her homework, when bullets pierced her Ferguson, Mo., home. Her mother was shot in the leg during the shooting and has since been released from the hospital; 9-year-old Jamyla didn’t make it. “I never in a million years thought that I’d be laying my daughter…

On Tuesday, Divine Vaniah Chambliss, 31, was watching his 2-year-old son in their Hoover, Ala., home when he lay down to take a nap. Police believe the child found his father’s gun and began playing with it. When Chambliss’ wife returned home around 3 p.m., she found her husband in bed, unresponsive, according to AL.com.…

St. Louis police Wednesday shot and killed an 18-year-old man they claim pointed a gun at officers. Shortly after the shooting, angry residents began confronting officers and protesting the shooting. According to NBC News, protesters began throwing objects, including glass bottles and bricks, at the officers, and some even blocked traffic. Police arrested nine protesters…

Baltimore Police Officer Wesley Cagle has been charged in the 2014 shooting of a burglary suspect who authorities say was unarmed and subdued on the ground. Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced Wednesday that Cagle, a 14-year veteran of the department, has been charged with “attempted first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault,…