BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A 19-year-old Indiana University student accused of trying to remove a Muslim woman’s headscarf and shouting racial slurs says he had been drinking alcohol and hadn’t taken his anti-anxiety medication prior to the incident. Triceten D. Bickford has been charged with multiple felony charges, including intimidation, strangulation and battery, in the […]
In the town of Clinton, La., a white 54-year-old man was arrested and charged with a hate crime and an additional misdemeanor charge after he…
Like many other unspeakable tragedies, we look at icons for some truth to disperse the dark cloud. Nas did some of that following the Charleston…
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Debbie Dills thought the black Hyundai next to her at a stoplight looked familiar — it had a South Carolina tag and a white decal on the front. Her heart raced when she saw the driver, the bowlcut-wearing white man who authorities say killed nine people in a black church […]
UPDATE: 5:20 p.m. An assistant clerk in North Carolina says the extradition hearing for suspect in the fatal shooting of nine people at a historic black church lasted just 10 minutes, and he waived his right to counsel. At the hearing, suspect 21-year-old Dylann Roof waived his right to extradition, which means he will be […]
A Black family living in an exclusive Southern California enclave is now wondering if an explosion was deliberately set because of their race. Earlier this month, the $3.5 million Manhattan Beach home of Ronald and Malissia Clinton was targeted by someone who poured gasoline on a tire, lit it and left it at their front […]
We have a crisis in our country when a white police officer who is sworn to protect and serve his community is charged with boldly preying on eight black women by pulling them over for routine traffic stops, raping and sodomizing them, threatening them with jail or physical harm if they tell, and then return to […]
Yusef Hawkins, a 16-year-old Brooklyn boy, was killed August 23, 1989 in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York by an angry white mob. Bensonhurst, a predominantly Italian neighborhood, became the center of attention and the target of several race-related protests led by religious and civic leaders such as Rev. Al Sharpton. On that fateful […]
I’m still questioning the notion of our so-called post-racial society after hearing about a white businessman who confronted a prominent Chicago judge – a 79-year-old Black woman, called her “Rosa Parks,” spit on her, and then slapped her in the face. This is an unconscionable act. It’s racist and disrespectful, yes, but it also speaks […]
The New York Daily News is reporting that Luke Schreiner, a white firefighter, attacked a black mailman during a fit of road rage. 49-year-old Schreiner reportedly said “You want to get smacked today?” to the victim before adding “You are a f—–g n—-r” and slapping him in the face. The 17-year FDNY veteran has been […]
Tevin Geike (pictured), a White soldier, was allegedly stabbed to death in Washington Saturday night by one of five Black males, and Geike may have…
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man’s face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York’s police commissioner called an “anti-gay” hate crime. Before opening fire early Saturday, the gunman confronted the victim and his companion in Greenwich […]
