Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Four students charged after swastikas, racial graffiti found at Glenelg High School  Glenelg High School students were charged with hate crimes after swastikas and racial epithets, including one that police said targeted the central Howard County school’s African-American principal, were found painted on campus sidewalks, outside walls and the parking lot Thursday morning. Howard County police said they used video from surveillance cameras to help identify the 18-year-olds, who are facing multiple counts of destruction of property based on bias.

Border patrol agents threatened migrant children with death, sexual abuse, ACLU says Migrant children in custody of United States Customs and Border Protection officers were routinely beaten, kicked and shocked with Tasers, and some were threatened with sexual violence or death, according to  a report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. The documents detail allegations made by migrant children who say that border patrol agents used unnecessary and illegal force in detaining them between 2009 and 2014. The children's accounts include brutal, detailed accusations of physical and mental abuse allegedly suffered at the hands of the officers. The ACLU also alleges that CBP leadership knew of the sharp rise in complaints against its officers and did nothing to stop the abusive practices. The report is based on 30,000 pages of government documents released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and lawsuit. Most of the children in the rep

Michelle Obama Reveals the Cover for Her New Memoir Becoming Michelle Obama has unveiled the cover for her highly anticipated first memoir, Becoming, out Nov. 13. The former first lady took to her Instagram for the reveal, captioning her post: “I’m thrilled to share with all of you the cover for BECOMING. The process of writing this book has been so personally meaningful and illuminating for me. As I prepare to share BECOMING this fall, I hope you’ll also think about your own story, and trust that it will help you become whoever you aspire to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own. #BECOMING.”

'Reparations Happy Hour' invites white people to pay for drinks In Portland, Oregon, organizers of the “Reparations Happy Hour” invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend. Brown Hope, a local activist organization, wanted the event, which was held Monday, to be a space for people of color in a mostly white city to meet one another, discuss policy issues and plan potential action. While it was far from the full-scale reparations sought by some as penance for the horrors of slavery and continuing racial injustice, Cameron Whitten, the 27-year-old activist who organized the event, said there was one similarity: It made attendees feel as if their pain were valued and understood.

Cop Sentenced to 150 Days in Jail for Repeatedly Raping his Friends' Child An Oregon judge sentenced a cop for sexually abusing a girl under the age of 16. Woodburn cop Daniel Kerbs, 29, was sentenced to 150 days in jail and five years of probation by Washington County Judge Charles Bailey. Two months before, Kerbs admitted to sexually abusing a girl under the age of 16 and soliciting sex online from the daughter of a family friend.

NFL's new anthem policy won't impact Dak Prescott and always-standing Cowboys FRISCO  The Dallas Cowboys have always stood  and respected the national anthem, as mandated by owner Jerry Jones. And that won't change in 2018,  despite a new anthem policy adopted by the NFL Wednesday  that gives players the option to stay in the locker room but be subject to a fine if they sit or kneel. The new policy is a compromise among the owners to the dozens of players who sat, kneeled or raised a fist during the national anthem the past two years to protest racism and police brutality. Teams are subject to a fine if a player or any other team personnel does not show respect for the anthem by sitting or kneeling.