UPDATED: August 12, 7:34 AM EST: Twenty-year-old Simone Manuel became the first African-American female swimmer to take gold in an individual event  on Thursday night. The native of Sugar Land, Texas, who attends Stanford University, “surged home in the final half of the second lap to finish in a time of 52:70,” reports USA Today. […]
Students held signs that read "Rape is Rape" and "Stanford Protects Rapists" to denounce Brock Turner's lenient sentence.
