Новости за 19.04.2016

Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., decided to hold a campus forum Tuesday after six rainbow-colored nooses were found hung on a tree on campus, WKRN-TV reports. 

It's been a year since Freddie Gray died.

A Missouri man has pleaded guilty to making a terrorist threat on social media against black people at the University of Missouri after the university's president was ousted because of complaints over his handling of racial abuse, Reuters reports.

The 11 members of Sistahs on the Reading Edge, a book club based in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay, who were kicked off the Napa Valley Wine Train after being "too loud" have settled their racial-discrimination lawsuit, their attorney confirmed Monday, the Mercury News reports. 

A New York City teen accused of starting a fire at a housing project in the city’s Brooklyn borough that killed an officer has rejected a plea deal of 22 years in prison, going against his lawyer's advice to take the deal, the New York Post reports. 

Maybe Donald Trump should have stopped by a 7-Eleven to grab a cup of coffee before his Buffalo, N.Y., rally Monday. That way he would have been alert enough not to confuse the convenience store with 9/11.

If there is any way to mathematically stop Donald Trump from having the most delegates at the Republican convention, it pretty much has to happen in New York. If the real estate mogul/reality-TV star/erstwhile Republican manages to get over 50 percent of the vote in every New York district, he’ll score almost 80 of the 95 GOP delegates available. That means only a contested convention will stop him from being the GOP standard-bearer.

An openly gay Texas pastor says he ordered a cake from a local Whole Foods that was only to have the phrase "Love Wins" written on it. When he returned to pick up the dessert, he says he didn't notice that the words written on the cake were actually, "Love Wins [F--]."

Police have arrested a 33-year-old Michigan man and charged him with bank robbery after he reportedly dressed up as a woman and robbed a bank.

Between 1995 and 2005, three of the greatest NBA players of all time—Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James—and several perennial all-stars, including Dwight Howard, Tracy McGrady and Tyson Chandler, were drafted straight out of high school. Unfortunately, that path wasn’t quite the yellow brick road that it seemed.

Let’s get this out of the way: Nina, the much-discussed biopic about legendary songstress Nina Simone, is bad. Really bad.

Even though it’s political season and there are lots of commercials that indicate that every vote counts—vote or die and s--t—forcing politicians to do everything to court the votes of communities not like theirs, I kind of wish Hillary Clinton would stop trying to win the black vote now. Or, at least, cut the s--t.

The Washington Post series “Fatal Force,” which took a hard look at the number of deadly police shootings throughout the country last year, and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit Hamilton were two of the big winners when the 100th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday around 3 p.m. EDT.