News for May 3, 2025

Rodney Hinton, the father of an 18-year-old shot dead by Cincinnati police, has been charged with aggravated murder after prosecutors say he deliberately hit and killed a Hamilton County deputy with his car.

The Met Gala is making history by centering Black men’s fashion, with Monica L. Miller’s work helping shape a major exhibit and red-carpet theme at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Denver Fire Station 3, the city’s oldest working firehouse, is being remembered as a key site in the history of Black firefighters and the Denver Fire Department’s slow move toward desegregation.

Police in Rochester, Minnesota, are investigating after Sharmake Omar said a white mother used racist slurs against a Black child at a park and then against him when he stepped in.