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Two former Mississippi sheriff’s deputies were sentenced Tuesday for their roles in torturing two Black men. Hunter Elward received an approximately 20-year sentence from U.S. District Judge Tom Lee in a Jackson federal court. Jeffrey Middleton, the leader of the so-called “Goon Squad” that abused the men, was given a 17.5-year prison sentence. Four other […]
Karrem Nasr, 23, was arrested in Kenya and brought back to the U.S. December 29, 2023, 12:06 PM ET • 3 min read A New Jersey man motivated by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel “devoted himself to waging violent jihad against America and its allies” and sought to join a foreign terror group, […]
A judge has ordered a pair of white men sentenced to prison for breaking a Black man’s jaw to pay $1.25 million in damages for the racially motivated, random attack November 15, 2023, 12:34 PM ET • 2 min read PORTLAND, Maine — A pair of white men sentenced to federal prison for breaking a […]
Editor’s note: This story contains censored language that could be considered offensive, including words such as “f—ing,” “n—-r,” b—-,” “g–d—,” “s—,” “motherf——,” etc. Historian Marvin Dunn was surveying land he co-owns in a Florida town called Rosewood – once a haven for Black Americans – as part of plans to memorialize the horrific racial violence […]
A state commission’s investigation into a sitting North Carolina Supreme Court justice is just the latest attempt by conservative politicians to diminish Black people’s political power, a group of Black lawyers and politicians said Wednesday. That investigation — which has the potential to remove Earls from office — is based on recent comments she made […]
A racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, reopened wounds for the city’s Black community on a weekend known for its racial history. On Saturday, three Black people were killed at a Dollar General store by a shooter who detailed a “disgusting ideology of hate” in writings preceding the attack, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said of […]
A racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, reopened wounds for the city’s Black community on a weekend known for its racial history. On Saturday, three Black people were
CNN — The White gunman who killed three Black people in a racially motivated attack at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday legally purchased the two firearms he used in the . . .
Three Black people were killed in a Florida discount store Saturday by a white man driven by racial hatred, authorities said. The shooter then took his own life after a standoff with police. “He targeted a certain group of people and that’s Black people. That’s what he said he wanted to kill. And that’s very […]
Aug 26 (Reuters) – A white man armed with a high-powered rifle and a handgun killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday, before shooting himself, in what local law enforcement described as a racially motivated crime. “This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff […]