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Since the June 17 fatal shooting of nine African Americans inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., some six black churches have been torched throughout the South. According to Al-Jazeera, three Muslim organizations—Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, the Arab-American Association of New York and Ummah Wide—have created the “Respond With Love” campaign to raise…

Dylann Roof, the South Carolina suspect who was arrested and charged in the shooting deaths of nine people inside Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., last month, has been indicted on new charges by a grand jury. NBC News reports that Roof has been charged with three counts of attempted murder connected…

A DNA test has confirmed that Eric Garner had a 16-month-old daughter with a woman he lived with for three years before his death. According to the New York Daily News, Garner, who died outside a Staten Island, N.Y., store after police administered a banned choke hold, was never legally divorced and his widow, Esaw…

For one Spring, Texas, family, the Fourth of July holiday weekend had barely started when they awoke to find racist and vulgar messages spray-painted on the family’s truck. “My black friend, he’s been here for two days,” Darren Franke told KHOU. “Me and him hung out in the yard and just mowed the grass and…

The son of a former New York City fire commissioner who resigned from his position with the city’s Fire Department after admitting to posting several bigoted and anti-Semitic tweets is set to rejoin the department, to the ire of some black firefighters. According to the New York Daily News, Joseph Cassano, 26, was still on…

Even after the South Carolina church massacre during which nine African-American worshippers were fatally shot, and the subsequent public outcry that the Confederate flag be removed from the Statehouse, a new CNN/ORC poll shows that public opinion on the flag has not changed in 15 years. According to the poll, most still believe that the…

On Saturday, John S. Williams Jr. and his children took a cab from Philadelphia to Uniontown, Pa., to surprise his fiancee, but the person who got the biggest surprise was the cabbie, who officials say had driven some 300 miles, only to be stiffed on the fare. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Williams, 35, told…

A historically black church located just outside Charleston, S.C., and which was burned to the ground 20 years ago by the Ku Klux Klan, was ablaze Tuesday evening. According to WACH Fox 57, the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, located in Greeleyville, S.C.—about an hour away from Charleston—burned well into the evening as two…