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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
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White Man Posts Cards Against Humanity Play About Gunning Down African Children With an AR-15, Gets Arrested. Joke's on Him?

There’s something about Facebook that just makes white people go, “I’m gonna end my whole career today.” In one of the most inventive instances of playing oneself, a Florida man was arrested after posting, among other things, a racist Cards Against Humanity play. According to Insider, this was only one of many racist posts from…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

July 27, 2020
Sex Offender Owns Up to Making Racist Death Threats Against Howard Students

Given what we know about John Edgar Rust, it’s fair to call him a racist. The 26-year-old convicted sex offender admitted in a Virginia court on Tuesday that he was responsible for threatening Howard University students online with violent, racist messages in 2015. The death threats, made on 4chan and Reddit, declared that “any niggers…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

March 9, 2018
‘I Hope You Die’: Racist Note Found in Black Student’s Locker at NJ Christian School

A black student attending a New Jersey Christian school has been the target of racial harassment, prompting an investigation by the school and sermons at school about how to treat one another. According to Philly.com, the black student found two notes in his locker at the Gloucester County Christian School, complete with racial slurs. Campus…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

November 1, 2017
‘It’s Not Murder if They’re Black’: Man Charged With Sending Racist Death Threats Targeting Howard University Students

A 24-year-old man from Alexandria, Va., is finally facing charges in connection with racist death threats online on 4chan and Reddit that targeted students at historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C. “Any niggers left at Howard University after 10 tomorrow will be the first to go,” the messages read in part, according to the…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

October 5, 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
NYC Chiropractor Was Falsely Accused of Making Racist Threats Against Child, Cop; Has Charges Dropped

Updated: As it turns out, a Staten Island, N.Y., chiropractor was falsely accused of sending racist letters to a school crossing guard, having been apparently framed by her alleged victim. “My client was accused of some horrible, horrible acts,” Danielle Serini’s attorney Mark Fonte confirmed back in November. “She has now been vindicated.” Serini, who…

By

Breanna Edwards

Published

March 17, 2017
Black Volunteer Firefighter's Home Engulfed in Flames 2 days After Receiving Racist, Threatening Note

A North Tonawanda, N.Y., volunteer firefighter who was threatened by a racist letter found in his mailbox Monday lost everything in a fire at his home Wednesday morning, WGRZ reports. Kenneth Walker and his family are safe, but two cats died in the fire damage, and the family lost all their possessions. According to the…

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Breanna Edwards

Published

August 4, 2016