Former BadBoy artist G. Dep was convicted Tuesday of a crime that happened nearly 20 years ago. He faces a minimum of 15 years in prison.

A Chicago teen was shot and killed this past weekend after an apparent robbery attempt over his sneakers.

Ohio State University Police issued a hate-crime alert after someone spray-painted “Long Live Zimmerman” on a building on campus, according the university’s student newspaper The Lantern. A second crime occurred off campus where a mural of President Barack Obama was vandalized.

Famed actor and comedian Bill Cosby, known his role as the lovable Cliff Huxtable in the television series The Cosbys, recently spoke out on the Trayvon Martin case for the first time. He says Trayvon Martin would still be alive today if it wasn’t for George Zimmerman and his gun.

The family of an innocent bystander shot and killed by police last month is suing the city of Chicago.

Boyd was shot by off-duty police officer Dante Servin after he said someone pointed a gun at him. No weapon was recovered at the scene.

Pasadena police chief Philip Sanchez has invited the FBI to conduct an independent review of an unarmed college student’s shooting by police last month.

Travis Carver and Cherie Reed sat down with The Cleveland Plain Dealer to recount T.J. Lane and the deadly school shooting at Chardon High School.

Nicki Minaj released her music video “Stupid H**” a while back. The video is infamous with 42,323,524 views, yet also has 228, 707 likes and 494,458 dislikes.But we noticed something very odd in the video beginning at 48 seconds. A Nicki Minaj Barbie doll flashes across the screen. The doll features Nicki Minaj with enlarged buttocks. We couldn’t help, but liken this to Sarah Baartman, the so-called “Hottentot Venus.”

Hazing charges against 27 Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members were dropped by Dartmouth College, WMUR 9 reports. Charges came as a result of a former member’s allegations.

Hazing at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University was never an isolated incident with the Robert Champion case. It has been a continuous problem at the university, according to hundreds of pages of records obtained by The Associated Press and Tallahassee Democrat.

An Iraqi woman was found severely beaten in an apparent hate crime inside her home. Shaima Alawadi was found unconscious Wednesday by her 17-year-old daughter and taken to hospital where she was placed on life support. She died Saturday afternoon after being taken off life support.