The president of a white supremacist group that was referenced in a manifesto attributed to accused Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal shooter Dylann Roof donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns, including those of former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania) and Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rand Paul (Kentucky), all of whom are running for…

Graffiti bearing the message “Black Lives Matter” has turned up on a memorial dedicated to the “Confederate Defenders of Charleston” who died at South Carolina’s Fort Sumter, Yahoo News reports. This comes days after a shooting rampage at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., by a gunman who has been photographed with a…

President Barack Obama underscored the persistence of racism in the United States, pointing out, for example, that just because it’s no longer considered polite to say the n-word in public doesn’t mean the country is not still suffering the aftereffects of systemic discrimination, the Associated Press reports.  “Racism, we are not cured of it,” Obama…

Police are searching for gunmen after a West Philadelphia block party on Saturday ended with shooting, resulting in injuries to 10 people, including three children, CBS Philadelphia reports.  According to the report, at least two blasts from a shotgun were fired at about 10 p.m. on Saturday. Police Lt. John Walker told the CBS station…

A Struthers, Ohio, man is due on court Friday after allegedly chasing several children while waving his gun and screaming racial slurs earlier this week, WKBN reports.  According to the report, Gust Mamounis was charged with aggravated menacing, disorderly conduct and inducing panic in the incident Monday evening. Two kids had reportedly gotten into a…

The notorious alleged Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal shooter is now being held on a $1 million bond for a weapons charge in the crime that left nine people in Charleston, S.C., dead and a community reeling.  Appearing before a magistrate judge via video on Friday, Dylann Storm Roof spoke only when asked direct questions and remained…

National Rifle Association board member Charles L. Cotton opined on an online gun-rights forum that if deceased Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal pastor Clementa Pinckney had allowed congregants to carry weapons into the Charleston, S.C., church, innocent people might not have died, the Washington Post reports. According to the news site, Cotton, who also runs the…

The man accused of shooting at George Zimmerman during a traffic confrontation in Florida is now being charged with attempted murder, the Associated Press reports.  On Thursday a prosecutor upgraded the charges of Matthew Apperson—who was initially charged with aggravated assault and battery—to attempted second-degree murder. Zimmerman escaped the alleged scuffle in May with minor…

A raging Virginia man threatened churchgoers at a Richmond church, banging on the door and threatening to kill the people within while yelling racial slurs during a regular Thursday-night service, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.  The man reportedly had something resembling a weapon in his hand, which a police officer, who was working security at the…

A former University of Mississippi student took a plea deal from prosecutors, pleading guilty Thursday to a federal civil rights charge in the racially charged vandalism of a statue of the school’s first black student, Reuters reports.  Graeme Phillip Harris, who was 19 at the time of the vandalism, could get up to a year…