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**Trigger warning: vehicular violence, racial aggression** An ugly scar that’s long been a part of the United States of America was exposed again this weekend as hundreds of white supremacists and racists gathered in Charlottesville, Va. to protest the removal of a Confederate statue. The tone of the already tense environment took a turn for […]

“You illegal?” That’s the first thing Marcos Antonio Huete heard when approached by a Monroe County sheriff. Just moments earlier, the back wheel of his bike had been clipped by a car. Instead of seeing how he could help him, the officer was asking Huete about his immigration status, according to Univision. 

Walmart is blaming Tracy Morgan’s lack of wearing a seatbelt for injuries he suffered in the accident with a Walmart truck. According to legal documents, the company says Morgan not being properly restrained caused most, if not all of the comedian’s injuries as he rode home in a limo van in NJ back in June. 

  Texas A&M University-Commerce experienced a great loss after two members of its women’s basketball team died in a car accident on Loop 286 in Paris. Four members of the Lion’s were injured as they traveled to Paris High School to watch a summer league basketball game.  

The family of a woman shot to death wants answers. 19-year-old Renisha McBride died of a gunshot wound to the head after knocking on the door of a home in Detroit. Her family says that McBride went for help after a car accident around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning.

Content Warning: Medical Violence My nana, Ella D. Martin, was a nurse from Greenwood, Louisiana who slept with medical books underneath her bed, and sometimes her pillow. And no matter the time of day, Nana would receive medical emergency calls from folks all over the world, well until she was 80. Though she worked in […]

by Jamila Mitchell This article discusses suicide, r/pe, and other topics that may be triggering for some readers.  For some reason, I found myself in pain on the floor of my bathroom with a closed door, empty pill bottles, and spilt bleach. Frantically, I reached out to people through my phone and Facebook contacts. All […]

On Sunday, a 49 year old woman was struck and killed in Tempe, Arizona by an Uber vehicle that was doing testing of its autonomous mode. Reports from BBC indicate that there was a human monitor behind the wheel, but according to Tempe Police Elaine Herzberg was not using a crosswalk when the Uber car struck […]

HOW DID WE GET HERE???? The President* of the United States sent a majority of the country’s citizens into a tailspin of confusion on Tuesday following a press conference that will likely go down in history.

Over the weekend – Saturday, to be exact – the Cincinnati Zoo shot and killed a western lowland gorilla after a 4-year-old boy slipped into the animal’s enclosure. The 17-year old, 400-pound gorilla, Harambe carried the boy around its space for about 10 minutes, and the zoo’s dangerous animal response team considered a life-threatening situation.

Local authorities in St. Peteresburg, Fla. pulled a stolen 1990 Honda Accord out of a pond and found the bodies of three teenage girls. Dominique Battle, 16, Ashaunti Butler, 15, and Laniya Miller, 15, were all found to have their seat belts off, possibly from trying to get out of the car, and no sign […]

  A Texas mother of four says she was mistakenly pulled over and handcuffed at gunpoint by police as her children watched from the car. Forney Police say they were responding to a report of a driver waving a gun out of a window and thought the woman’s car was the one they were looking […]