Racism

Watch: Bill O’Reilly blames #BlackLivesMatter for ‘killing Americans’

Watch: Bill O’Reilly blames #BlackLivesMatter for ‘killing Americans’

Kelly Cohen · May 26, 2016 11:46 am

Uniformed employees would be part of a protected class under the so-called "Blue Lives Matter" bill. (Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Louisiana will be first to include cops in hate crime laws

Kelly Cohen · May 24, 2016 7:56 pm

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., urged city residents on Monday "not to take us off course" after a judge found a police officer not guilty of actions leading to the death of Freddie Gray. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Baltimore Dem calls for calm in wake of Freddie Gray verdict

Susan Ferrechio · May 23, 2016 5:03 pm

The presumptive Republican nominee has accrued a vocal band of racist, anti-Semitic followers. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Does Trump have to distance himself from his fringe supporters?

David M. Drucker · May 22, 2016 4:01 am

Resignation took place just hours after a black woman was fatally shot by a city officer. (Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Examiner via AP)

San Fran police chief resigns amid racial tensions

Kelly Cohen · May 20, 2016 7:11 pm

Vice President Joe Biden said that racism is very much alive today and evident in the 2016 campaign. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Joe Biden says racism still exists today

Ariel Cohen · May 19, 2016 3:13 pm

The judge stated the town's decision to send African-American and Caucasian students to separate schools has "deprived generations of students of the constitutionally guaranteed right of an integrated education." (AP Photo/The Kalamazoo Gazette, Mark Bugnaski, File)

Mississippi town’s schools desegregated 62 years after Brown v Board of Ed.

Anna Giaritelli · May 16, 2016 9:46 pm

A judge has found Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in contempt of court Friday for disobeying his orders in a racial profiling case. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Sheriff Joe Arpaio found in contempt on racial profiling charges

Anna Giaritelli · May 13, 2016 8:21 pm

Slager, who is white, is already facing state charges in the death of Scott, 50, who was black. (Feidin Santana via AP Images, File)

Ex-cop in Walter Scott shooting faces federal civil rights charges

Kelly Cohen · May 11, 2016 5:49 pm

Donald Trump's campaign rejected the inclusion of a white nationalist in its selection of California delegates late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Trump campaign removes white nationalist Calif. delegate

Anna Giaritelli · May 11, 2016 12:39 am

Two women who were involved in the alleged hoax have been expelled from the State University of New York at Albany, while a third student was suspended for two years. The disciplinary action comes after the students were arrested and charged with 10 misdemeanor charges, including assault and false reporting. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Beltway Confidential

UAlbany race hoaxers have been expelled

Ashe Schow · May 9, 2016 7:52 pm

An economics professor was accused of being a terrorist for doing math on a plane. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

National Security

Woman who thought Italian mathematician’s model was ‘terrorist code’ delays flight

Kyle Feldscher · May 7, 2016 6:27 pm