The North Carolina sheriff’s deputy who pepper-sprayed and punched a Black man in the back of the head inside a courthouse — only for the Black man to return multiple punches, forcing the deputy to back away — has been charged with assault. Gregory Colson left the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office following the Jan. 22...
President Donald Trump and his team at the White House should be embarrassed, critics say, but they’re probably not. A week after launching a weird website with MAGA-themed games based on old-fashioned arcade-style videos, Trump’s team has pulled down at least one of the games over copyright infringement issues. Their “Build the Wall” video was...
Robin “Rocky” Myers was sentenced to death once before. Now, after spending decades fighting to prove he was wrongfully convicted and uncovering evidence that the attorney who defended him had ties to the Ku Klux Klan, his latest bid for freedom has been denied. An Alabama judge rejected Myers’ request for a new trial on...
A Black woman alleges that manager began asking vulgar questions about her relationship and making intrusive calls to her personal cell phone two years after Mastronardi Produce-USA hired her at its packaging center in Livonia, Michigan. He allegedly said, “So you don’t like to get f***ked with the strap at all?” and asked her other...
The Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio said deputies had probable cause to search a Black man’s car after pulling him over last month for an alleged turn-signal violation and an issue with a license-plate light. But their report does not explain what prompted deputies to summon a K-9 unit, pat down Roy Lee Campbell...