Новости за 28.09.2015

A 5-year-old San Diego girl is at home, instead of starting kindergarten with her friends, because her school, the Mount Erie Christian Academy, refuses to welcome her any longer because she has two moms, KGTV reports. 

Rockmart High School in Polk County, Ga., went into a lockdown drill after tensions broke out over a Confederate battle flag on campus, Fox 5 Atlanta reports. 

There’s a particularly mean meme about presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson and his wife, Lacena, aka Candy, circulating around social media. In the meme, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are striking at the China state dinner Friday. President Obama is dressed in a well-tailored tuxedo, and the first lady has long, side-swept hair and an off-the-shoulder, custom-made Vera Wang gown.

Local radio sports talk show host Miko Grimes, who is also the wife of the Miami Dolphins' cornerback Brent Grimes, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after a confrontation with officers just outside Sun Life Stadium, the Sun Sentinel reports. 

When Kanye West announced at the MTV Video Music Awards that he would run for president in 2020, my reaction was, “We’ll never get that HBO comedy show, but at least the Negro still has jokes.”

Virginia police officials are investigating an incident captured on video that appears to show a black man complying with an officer's demands, yet the officer still uses a Taser on him.

An Indianapolis teen suspected of shoplifting died in police custody Saturday after complaining of having trouble breathing.

Jeb Bush’s recent comments in South Carolina about Democrats getting black people to vote for them by promising them “free stuff” during election season is a powerful reminder that a leading Republican presidential candidate is woefully ignorant about contemporary race relations and the history that’s shaped the racial-justice struggle.

Escalating tensions between establishment Republicans and members of the Tea Party over Planned Parenthood has pushed the GOP into chaos and the government to the brink of another shutdown, with Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner announcing his resignation last Friday.