17 Arrested In Latest Ferguson Protests
Officers arrested 17 protesters and used pepper spray to subdue some of them Sunday in a St. Louis neighborhood not far from the suburb…
LGBT Kids Of Color Are More Likely To Be Disciplined In School, Study Shows
Tanayshia Price, a 15-year-old black student who identifies as queer, says she has been suspended from school more times than she can count. “I…
Howard University Hospital Testing Patient for Ebola
The D.C. Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Oct. 4 that a patient being treated at Howard University…
Michael Dunn found guilty of 1st-degree murder in loud-music trial
Jurors found Michael Dunn guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Dunn’s parents were in the courtroom…
Obama: Mistrust Of Police Corroding American Society
The widespread mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Missouri exists in too…
Summit addresses LGBT youth in foster care
The Maryland Judiciary held a summit on Sept. 10 to help LGBT young people in the foster care system. The summit, “Identifying, Supporting, and…
