Three of the Baltimore officers arrested and charged with various crimes in the death of Freddie Gray are seen in a new video walking from the police van into the jail without handcuffs. According to the Baltimore Sun, the three officers—Caesar R. Goodson Jr., William G. Porter and Edward M. Nero, who all surrendered May…

As it now stands, police departments and the black community may as well be on polar opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to building an effective relationship against the backdrop of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. But that didn’t stop the Chicago Police Department from trying. On Friday it held its first “Daddy Daughter Dance”…

Updated Tuesday, May 26, 5:45 p.m. EDT: Specifics of the agreement between the Department of Justice and the city of Cleveland over abusive and excessive use of force by police have been released, according to Yahoo News, and they include a substantial overhaul of police procedures and policies. An independent monitor will oversee changes in…

A mural of Assata Shakur has been removed from Marquette University after a professor noticed it on the school’s Facebook page. Suspended professor John McAdams contacted the school Monday after noticing the mural with the Shakur quote, “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them,” on the student union’s…

A Prince George’s County, Md., substitute teacher has been suspended after video footage appeared on WorldStarHipHop that shows the teacher beating students with a belt. On May 15 a student at Gwynn Park Middle School in Brandywine, Md., recorded footage that appears to show a substitute teacher striking several students with a belt while other…

Twenty-six-year-old James Brown served two tours in Iraq. He didn’t make it two days in a Texas jail. In 2012, Brown was arrested in El Paso, Texas, where he was living with his family while on active duty, and sentenced to two days in the El Paso County Detention Facility for a DWI. According to…

In 1996 a 17-year-old Jarrett Adams told his parents he was staying at a friend’s house. Adams and two friends ended up at a campus party at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. “I had no business being up there,” Adams told the Chicago Tribune. “It was [a] … recipe for disaster.” The three friends…

The principal of a private, nontraditional high school in Stone Mountain, Ga., who went viral after footage showed her shouting, “Look at who’s leaving, all the black people,” during a graduation ceremony, has been fired, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. According to the newspaper, the TNT Academy board of directors voted to fire Nancy Gordeuk, who…

Florida couple Kayla Davis and Darien Elwin were celebrating Elwin’s 20th birthday Saturday when they decided to stop at George & Dragon British Pub in Orlando for dinner, since they had a coupon. Davis, who turned 21 a few months ago, asked the owner of the pub, Kim Bruns, for a drink recommendation. Bruns made…

Saida Grundy, a sociology professor headed to Boston University, caused quite the stir with a few recent tweets aimed at “white college males” who she believes make up a “problem population.” Grundy, whose Twitter account is now private, also tweeted, “White masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges.” After some deemed her tweets racist, Grundy…