The tiny pink house was pretty much empty. Nevertheless, someone was trying to burglarize it, a caller told 911 well after midnight on a Sunday in Montgomery, Alabama.

An Alabama man killed by a K-9 officer was one of thousands of Americans bitten by police dogs every year. Few ever get justice.

Party City is pulling Confederate-themed Halloween costumes after a mother and her two Black children discovered them in a Virginia store.

In Salt Lake City, police officers set a dog on 36-year-old Jeffrey Ryans after responding to a call that he was arguing with his wife. Body-cam footage shows officers cornering him as he exited his backyard, demanding that he “get on the ground” and warning that if he didn’t, he was “going to get bit!” This threat set the stage for the spectacle of violence that soon followed as the officers encouraged the dog to attack a compliant Ryans, mangling his leg for 50 seconds. The animal’s only job in this scenario was to debase, violate and humiliate a Black man the officers presumed to be guilty.

Everyone loves Chasten Buttigieg, who was briefly in contention to become the nation’s first first gentleman. His Twitter feed, with more than 447,000 followers, helped him become Pete Buttigieg’s “not-so-secret public-relations weapon,” as he was described in a profile for this newspaper. Now, six months after the historic campaign of “Mayor Pete” for the Democratic presidential nomination came to an end, Chasten’s memoir, “I Have Something to Tell You,” is being published.

As the U.S. faces a reckoning on racial injustice, people from coast to coast are taking to the streets to protest the killing and injury of unarmed Black people at the hands of police officers. This surge of activism has ignited calls for government to rethink law enforcement in our country. In turn, "defund the police" has quickly become a hot button phrase.

Kendra Gage describes implicit bias as the stories we make up about people before we get to know them. It’s a practical and personal definition from an historian who studies what some consider an unlikely, even unpopular, topic for a white professor — the civil rights movement.

Tyler Perry, a UNLV assistant professor of African American studies, is weighing in on what’s happening in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake.