Huffpost Black Voices – Spoken Edition

Lamar Bunn, a 32-year-old employee of the police department in Milner, Georgia, and his mother, Sandra Bunn, 58, are charged with obstruction. Gregory Huffman, a 47-year-old detention officer with the sheriff’s department, is charged with obstruction and violation of oath of office. “There is some misinformation out there that his body was hanged, but his body was not hanged,” Capt. Dwayne Jones of the sheriff’s office told HuffPost.

The26-year-old Atlanta resident has been in and out of jail on misdemeanor theft charges and a first-degree forgery charge since 2011, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Dickerson was recentlyreleased on a $2,600 bond on charges of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and possession of a firearm or knife during attempted felonies. Criminal record or not,Dickerson has vowed to do right by his 2-year-old, A.J. Burgess, who was born without a working kidney.

A restaurant manager in Conway, South Carolina,has been indicted in federal court for allegedly forcing a mentally disabled man to work as a buffet cook under appalling conditions. Bobby Paul Edwards, 52, was indicted on Wednesday on one count of forced labor. A U.S.Department of Justice release alleges that he used force, threats of force, physical restraint and coercion on the victim between 2010 and 2014.

Actor and producer J.J. Green had a specific vision when he wrote the script for a film on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and no amount of money will make him change it. “Flint 6”tells the story of how young residents of Flint took matters into their own hands to demand change and reparations after government officials were criticized for their inadequate leadership.

Footage of a drunken white man identified as Paul Lawson repeatedly calling a group of black teens a racial slur has been making the rounds on social media. Holding a Lime-a-Rita on the L train in New York City, the man verbally assaults the group while another man tries to block his path to the passengers. “I talk shit cause I know I can cause I’m a lawyer. I went to NYU Law,” the man said.

Police in Alexandria, Virginia, have arrested a registered sex offender who allegedly threatened to murder students at Howard Universityin an online post. John Edgar Rust,26, was arrested Wednesday after a two-year investigation into the threat, according to WTTG TV.Court documents allege that on Nov. 15, 2015, Rust posted a note on websites Reddit and 4Chan suggesting he was planning to kill students the next day at thehistorically black university in Washington D.C.

Chance the Rapper livestreamed a traffic stop on Sunday after Chicago police pulled over the car he was riding in. “I just want y’all to be here in case it gets out of hand,”the Grammy-winning artist said to the camera. “Should be good, though. Should be straight. I have great faith in humanity and the men and women that put on the badge, but, you know, you can’t be too careful.

A Houston student was suspended from school for refusing to stand during the pledge of allegiance. India Landry, a high school senior at Windfern High School, was kicked out on Monday after refusing to stand for the pledge and wasn’t allowed to return to classes for the majority of the week,KHOU reports. India says she has been sitting during the pledge for years, but it wasn’t until the National Football League protests began that the school took issue with it.

In a poignant defense of equality, the United States Air Force Academy’s superintendent made it crystal clear that the institution will not tolerate any form of disrespectful behavior toward someone of another race or gender. The Academy’s Preparatory School found racial slurs written on message boards of five African-American cadets, leading Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria to express his disgust to the Academy’s more than 5,000 cadets, faculty and staff in Colorado Springs.

A father of three is being heralded as a hero after he saved dozens of people during the Las Vegas shooting that took the lives of at least 59 people and injured more than 500. Jonathan Smith, a 30-year-old copy machine repairman, was visiting the city from Orange County, California, with family for his brother’s birthday.