Rights group paints devastating picture of systematic racial discrimination by the sheriff’s department of Madison County in a federal court complaint

A California school district suspended a high school student after racist images that included nooses drawn around the necks of a black student and coach appeared on his social media site. But a federal lawsuit says the district went too far when it also disciplined students who indicated they “liked” the posts on the Instagram account.

At the same baseball game that saw Boston Red Sox fans make amends with a player targeted by racial slurs at Fenway Park, one fan reportedly used a slur to comment on a singer — and that fan has now been banned from the stadium. "Yes, it was a racial comment," Red Sox club President Sam Kennedy said, according to the team. "It was a racial comment used to describe the national anthem that was taking place, the performance of the national anthem. It was sickening to hear."

In a 5-3 decision, the court said the cities had standing to sue under the Fair Housing Act for allegedly discriminating against minority borrowers. By David G. Savage.

German authorities have launched an investigation into the death of a 22-year-old Egyptian student in the German city of Cottbus. New witnesses claim the student was racially abused by the passengers of a car that struck her and left her fatally injured in the German city of Cottbus. According to German media, Shaden Mohamed Al-Gohari was struck by a car in a hit-and-run as she crossed the road in the German city on 18 April. Shaden was transported to hospital but later passed away due to the serious injuries she sustained from the hit-and-run.

African American women organizing shooting classes are finding a surge of interest – and many say it comes down to feeling less safe in the era of Trump

The rise of Le Pen in France is due to the failure of mainstream political parties to confront the racism of the National Front. Instead, they tried to co-opt it. By Mehdi Hasan.

“This is a war and we intend to win.” By Wes Enzinna.

An Australian shop owner who put a sign up banning "black teenagers and dogs” has taken it down after it caused widespread outrage. The printed sign in the window of a Melbourne milk bar read: “Statement. Because the 14-18 year old black [sic] always steal. Prohibit 14-18 year-old blacks and dogs into the shop”.  A resident, known as Cam, tweeted a photo of the sign and told 3AW radio of his disbelief. "I don't think anyone in the Melton community would fancy this," he said.

A man accused of being racist was ejected from a Flysafair flight to Port Elizabeth on Algoa Bay in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province after passengers complained to the pilot about his behavior. In video of the incident, a white man can be seen talking to a black passenger, who apparently said that he was going to a funeral. A female passenger told the captain when he came to investigate the altercation what had happened, saying, “[He] called this gentleman an a**hole and when we proceeded to say to him that’s unacceptable, he said to me: ‘You people are all the same’.

Critics often used this argument to counter the push for indigenous rights but now it’s clear I am a full-blooded Māori. And there will be others

We cannot come to terms with the Civil War because it presents us with an unacceptable kind of self-knowledge.

In August 2015, Marco Rubio, a rising star in the Republican Party and, by the reckoning of many at the time, the most likely candidate to claim its 2016 presidential nomination, gave an interview to Fox News. In it, Rubio offered a moving explanation for why he sympathized with the anger many African-Americans felt toward police. “This is a legitimate issue,” he said.

A Jewish community association in northern Sweden has decided to close following a series of far-right threats, seven years since it opened. Their centre in the town of Umea was targeted with swastikas and daubed with messages like "we know where you live", and a car was vandalised. Local members said the authorities had been unable to provide enough security. Community spokeswoman Carinne Sjoberg said some people no longer dared to come to the centre.

For generations of black Americans, the United States between the end of Reconstruction and the civil rights movement was a dystopian state. By Ezekiel Kweku and Jane Coaston.

By Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Move over Russia. By Aamna Mohdin.

“The Camp of the Saints” tells a grotesque tale about a migrant invasion to destroy Western civilization. By Paul Blumenthal, JM Rieger.

A Florida man who attempted to set fire to a convenience store told deputies that he assumed the owner was Muslim and that he wanted to "run the Arabs out of our country," according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff later said the store owners are actually Indian, appearing to make this the latest in a string of incidents targeting South Asians mistaken for people of Arab descent.

Less than a week ago, Tarek El-Messidi, a Muslim activist, helped organize a fundraiser to help with the cleanup of a desecrated Jewish cemetery near St. Louis. It raised more than $130,000, garnering widespread media attention and tweets from celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and J.K. Rowling. Because it brought in considerably more than expected, El-Messidi vowed to use the remaining money strictly when needed to counter anti-Semitism.