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 cornered a 12-year-old Black boy and unleashed a racially-charged tirade. Ronnie Barnes is accused of pulling down the boy’s pants inside a gas station and using the “n-word” to address […]

Crime

The man accused of killing nine Black parishioners at the historic Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, S.C. was indicted on federal hate crime charges Wednesday, the New York Times reports. Dylann Roof, 21, was also indicted on other charges, including killing someone while obstructing religious freedom, a charge eligible for the death penalty. Roof, […]

A couple from Brooklyn, New York believes they were victims of a hate crime after they were allegedly attacked by an off duty police officer. According to the Huffington Post, Stephanie Dorceant, 29, and her girlfriend Nandi Allman were leaving a concert in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn when Dorceant and Officer Salvator Aquino bumped into each other. […]

FBI Director James Comey said Thursday he is still weighing whether the killings of nine African-Americans at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, last month by an avowed White supremacist Dylann Roof meets the legal definition of terrorism, reports The Huffington Post. Terrorism is defined by the FBI as “the unlawful use of force or […]

UPDATE: Friday, June 26, 3:50 PM EST: After delivering a powerful eulogy that both memorialized Rev. Clementa Pinckney and called for the removal of the Confederate flag, President Obama lead the congregation in the singing of Amazing Grace. See the emotional video above. ————— Friends, family and loved ones will gather early Friday afternoon to […]

Family and friends of the late Sen. Clementa Pinckney paid their respects to the Charleston shooting victim on Wednesday afternoon, NBC affiliate WYFF reports. Thousands of people waited in line for hours to say goodbye to the pastor and politician at the South Carolina State House. Those in attendance included state Governor Nikki Haley and Angela […]

Exactly a week after a gunman massacred nine people at a historic Black church in South Carolina, police are investigating a deliberate fire that destroyed a predominantly Black church in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to NBC, Charlotte fire officials have officially ruled the blaze at Briar Creek Baptist Church arson, but police are investigating if the fire […]

Two police officers in Anniston, Alabama have been placed on administrative leave over allegations that they belong to a hate group, according to AL.com. Lt. Josh Doggrell and Lt. Wayne Brown are being investigated for ties to the League of the South after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) posted an article on its Hatewatch […]

Police are continuing their investigation into the South Carolina shooting that left nine dead at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, but the suspect, a White male identified by the FBI as 21-year-old Dylann Roof, was arrested by police early Thursday. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime by authorities. An investigation is […]

Suspect in Charleston #AMEshooting identified as Dylann Roof, 21, of Lexington County http://t.co/r0Xy6LKzQ1 pic.twitter.com/JThebV3n7R — NewsOne (@newsone) June 18, 2015 Police have arrested Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old Lexington County, South Carolina native who killed nine people Wednesday evening at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. One of the victims included the church’s pastor and […]

As details regarding the Charleston, SC church shooting continue to unfold, the nation is grappling yet again with what appears to be a violent hate crime aimed against people of color. What occurred Wednesday night at the Emanuel AME Church is another in a long history of terrorism against the Black Church, a cowardly tactic […]

A survivor of the Emanuel AME shooting in Charleston, South Carolina says she was left alive to retell the incident, The Post Courier reports. Dot Scott, President of the NAACP in Charleston, spoke to reporters about the woman and the nine other victims. Three men and six women were killed by a White male inside […]