A woman has been formally charged with murder for shooting another woman at a Iron Bowl party in Hoover, Ala., on Saturday, WBRC reports. The 28-year-old suspect, Adrian Laroze Briskey, allegedly shot Michelle Lacette Shepherd, 36, with a small handgun in a parking lot after what was allegedly an argument over Auburn’s last-second victory over…

It’s been a week since David Cornell Bennett Jr. was taken into custody, but charges have not yet been filed against the 22-year-old, who is being held on a $5 million bond, the Associated Press reports. Bennett was arrested on Nov. 26 at gunpoint in connection with the deaths of a young Kansas mother and…

Three white male students have slapped a black female Minneapolis Community and Technical College professor with a racial-discrimination complaint, causing the professor to be formally reprimanded by school officials for creating a “hostile learning environment,” Salon reports. Shannon Gibney was teaching her class, Introduction to Mass Communication, when the students reportedly reacted in a hostile…

You may remember Elle France Beauty Editor Jeanne Deroo, who infamously wore blackface a few weeks ago, complete with an Afro wig. Well, Deroo has since come forward to apologize, via Twitter, International Business Times reports. “I realise how much the fact of painting oneself brown is an offensive act. I didn’t realise the seriousness…

Over Thanksgiving break, three basketball players from Edison Tech High School in Rochester, N.Y., were arrested for disorderly conduct. But the teens and their basketball coach are saying they did nothing wrong. According to WROC-TV, the teenagers were waiting downtown with about 16 other teammates for a school bus to take them to a scrimmage…

Some residents of south Baton Rouge, La.—a predominantly affluent and white area of the city—want to secede from the city and create a new one named “St. George,” the Raw Story reports.  A study by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber has already concluded that incorporating a new city would most likely end in Baton Rouge…

An Olympic gold medal won by African-American track-and-field legend Jesse Owens is being auctioned off, the Associated Press reports.  The medal, won at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, is currently held by SCP Auctions, one of the largest auctioneers and private sellers of important sports memorabilia, and represents a significant part of African-American—and world—history. When…

“The sun of Oman shines in this museum,” said National Museum of African Art Director Johnnetta B. Cole on a rainy Tuesday in Washington, D.C. “My colleagues and I at this museum are profoundly grateful to the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center for this amazingly generous funding that will make it possible for us to tell…

As you travel for the holidays, keep in mind that not all places in these United States are as friendly as others. Now someone has pinpointed the most racist and homophobic locations in the United States—at least according to tweets sent from those areas, Policy Mic reports. A map, created by the folks over at…