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A destroyed piano is part of the charred remains of Briar Creek Road Baptist Church Wednesday, June 24, 2015 in Charlotte, N.C. (Davie Hinshaw/The Charlotte Observer via AP) In the week after nine people were shot dead at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina, six churches with predominately black congregations in five southern…
Six predominantly black churches in various cities in the South caught fire this week, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Three of the fires have been confirmed as cases of arson, two were likely accidental, and authorities are still investigating the cause of another. The College Hills Seventh Day Adventist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee…
Fires burned four predominantly black southern churches over the last week, and authorities say at least three of the blazes were the work of arsonists. Monday: The first of the fires burned College Hills Seventh Day Adventist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. The predominantly black church suffered some damage to its lawn, front doors, and van,…
A family has been forced to flee their new $1.3 million home in Westfield, New Jersey, after repeatedly receiving threatening packages from a person who calls themselves “the Watcher,” according to a lawsuit filed against the previous owners of the home. CBS New York reports that the packages are from someone who claims the six-bedroom…
Dylann Storm Roof is a domestic terrorist. He is a 21-year-old White supremacist. He has made it as clear as possible that he hates Black people. He went into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of our nation’s oldest Black churches, in Charleston, South Carolina, armed with a loaded gun and said to the congregants:…
A former friend who had reconnected with the man accused of a shooting massacre inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, said Dylann Storm Roof had become an avowed racist. Joey Meek reconnected with Roof a few weeks ago and said that while they got drunk together on vodka, Roof began complaining that…
President Obama spoke briefly about the church shooting in Charleston that left nine dead, in what the Department of Justice and other authorities are investigating as a hate crime. There’s no official word from the feds on what kind of hate crime, so per Fox News and other rightwing “news” outlets, it’s likely the alleged…
Photo Charleston police released a photograph taken from surveillance footage of the man who is believed to be the gunman. Credit Charleston Police Department, via Reuters CHARLESTON, S.C. — An intense manhunt was underway on Thursday for a white gunman who opened fire on Wednesday night at a historic black church in this city’s downtown,…
Photo Rachel Dolezal, center, president of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash., before the start of a Black Lives Matter Teach-In in January. Credit Tyler Tjomsland/The Spokesman-Review, via Associated Press The parents of a civil rights activist in Spokane, Wash., say their daughter has misrepresented herself as black for years, spurring a growing discussion on social…
This 2012 photo shows a camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Ramon Espinosa/AP) Here’s a headline you don’t see every day: “How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes“ That’s just over $83.3 million a house, according to my iPhone calculations. Or around the same…