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Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Burn Down a Black Church in Virginia

A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to threatening to burn down a Black church in Virginia. On June 7, 63-year-old John Malcolm Bareswill, a resident of Catawba, N.C., made a threatening phone call to a church located in Virginia Beach, Va., according to NBC News. Only several days earlier, one of the church leaders…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

August 6, 2020
‘We Should Have Hung All You … While We Had the Chance’: Parents Fear for Daughter’s Safety After Classmate Sends Her Threatening Message

It always amazes me when people don’t like being called racist, so then they jump to the most racist thing ever. That totally makes sense. Except now a Texas family are terrified because their daughter received a threatening message after she called out a classmate for being racist. According to the Houston Chronicle, the unidentified…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

October 12, 2017
‘Day of the Rope Is Coming’: Racist, Anti-Semitic Signs Found at Va. Church

A predominantly black Prince William County church has been the latest target of racists after messages of hate were posted up at the church’s front entrance over the weekend. According to Fox 5 DC, church members at Greater Praise Temple Ministries in Dumfries, Va., found the disturbing messages on Sunday. The news station was told…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

August 29, 2017
Racist ‘Kill List’ at Calif. High School Sparks Outrage From Black Community Leaders

African-American leaders in the South Bay area of California are accusing administrators at Monta Vista High School and the local sheriff’s office of failing to take action following the discovery of a “kill list” last fall that specifically targeted black students. “You’re talking about killing people in school. Killing people—you understand,” Walter Wilson, from the…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

June 15, 2017
University of Ala. Student Suspended After Racist Threats on Facebook

Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. The University of Alabama has suspended and removed a student from campus after he allegedly made racist threats on Facebook, AL.com reports. According to the news site, it is not clear what led up to the racially charged threats, but posts of…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

October 6, 2016
Politics

Man Who Threatened Black Mizzou Students Sentenced to Probation

A white Missouri man who threatened black Mizzou students on social media after the University of Missouri’s president, Tim Wolfe, resigned amid protests over his mishandling of racial abuse has been sentenced to probation, Reuters reports. Boone County Circuit Judge Kevin Crane sentenced 20-year-old Hunter Park to five years’ probation for the threats he made in…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

June 17, 2016