Accused of pretending to be black, Dolezal attracted widespread criticism but also sparked interesting discussions.
Three students are threatening to sue after being suspended for sending a school-wide email on Islamophobia.
A video of a police officer in Texas drawing a gun at teenagers at a pool party has yet again highlighted the debate on the use of force by U.S. law enforcement officials.
Parents of McKinney, Texas, high school students criticized brutality and racism in their community after a video emerged depicting an officer throwing a girl on the ground.
Tatiana Rhodes said racial slurs were hurled at her by adults before police arrived at the scene in McKinney.
South Africa has dealt with rising anti-immigrant sentiment in recent months.
Sunday's violence in Texas has American Muslims looking for ways to counter what they see as anti-Muslim bigotry.
The xenophobic attacks in South Africa have targeted foreigners living in the country. Three South Africans were among the dead.
Xenophobic violence has killed seven people in the past month.
The term 'genocide' also has special resonance in Germany, which has worked hard to come to terms with the Holocaust.
The alert urged Chinese citizens visiting South Africa to "exercise caution" and "avoid protests and large gatherings of people."
Michael Bublé posted an Instagram selfie that included an image of a woman without her consent; fans cried "sexism."
In a book published posthumously, Stéphane Charbonnier condemns those who say religion should be exempt from mockery and ridicule.
The plan moves on to the state Senate Education Committee after demonstrators opposed its approval by the Senate Health Committee.
Muslim Turkey accepts that many Christian Armenians died in clashes with Ottoman soldiers beginning in 1915, but denies hundreds of thousands were killed and that this amounted to genocide.
No. 1: The word "genocide" is the subject of fierce debate.
Armenia and many historians say as many as 1.5 million people were systematically killed by Ottoman forces in 1915.
"It's time to stand up," says Markus Nierth, a former leader of Tröglitz, after an arson attack targets 40 refugees.
Turkey recognizes that many Armenians died during World War I but denies that the deaths resulted from genocide.
For terrorists, 81 percent in news reports were labeled as Muslim, compared to the 6 percent so identified in FBI reports.
Since 9/11, the Justice Department has investigated 800 cases of violence, threats, assaults and vandalism targeting the groups.
The restaurant allegedly had a rule of not allowing Africans inside the place after 5:00 p.m.