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Holden James Matthews was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for setting three historically Black churches in Louisiana ablaze last year, ABC News reports. Matthews, 22, pleaded guilty in February to three counts of using fire to commit a felony and three counts of intentional damage to religious property. Under the Church Arson Prevention Act […]
It has been 194 days since police fatally shot Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, while she slept in her bed. On March 13, around 1 a.m., plainclothes Louisville Metro Police Department Officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, along with Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, used a battering ram to force open Taylor’s apartment door while executing […]
Two Delaware women are facing hate crime charges after they allegedly took a seven-year-old’s “Make America Great Again” hat outside the DNC, in Delaware, the New York Post reports. 21-year-olds Olivia Winslow and Camryn Amy were indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday on charges of robbery, conspiracy, hate crimes, and a misdemeanor charge of endangering […]
An 11-year-old girl is recovering after being the victim of a brutal racist attack at the hands of a 12-year-old boy, the Kansas City, Kansas Fox affiliate reports. Nevaeh Thomas was playing with her friends near her apartment building on Friday night when the boy, whose race has not been reported, started to verbally harass her. After he […]
A video of a group of white men holding a Black man against his will has gone viral. Now, two of the white men have been charged after the alleged assault, which happened on the Fourth of July near an Indiana lake. Yahoo News reports that Sean Purdy and Jerry Cox have been charged with […]
Texas authorities are investigating the death of Merci Mack, a Black transgender woman who was found shot to death Tuesday morning. According to the Dallas News, a passerby discovered the woman unconscious at around 6:15 a.m. in the parking lot of a Dallas apartment complex. Local police say residents allegedly heard gunshots an hour before Mack’s body was found, “but there […]
Yosef Aranbayev, also known as Joe Avianne of the Avianne & Co jewelry shop, has been charged with attempted murder as a hate crime and additional charges after firing a weapon at a car he was following. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the charges on Monday, asserting that the incident “could have ended with someone […]
Harry Rogers, the self-proclaimed president of the Virginia Ku Klux Klan, has been charged with assault and battery, attempted malicious wounding, and destruction of property for driving his car through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters during a demonstration on Sunday, The Guardian reports. “The accused, by his own admission and by a cursory glance at […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to keep the Karens of the world at bay, and his new proposed bill is firsthand proof of that. Cuomo wants state lawmakers to authorize a bill that will make it a hate crime to call 911 and cite a false accusation due to race, gender, or religion, the New York Post reports. […]
JAY-Z and Team Roc are calling on government officials in Georgia to act swiftly when handling the case of Ahmaud Arbery. Hov, Alicia Keys, Yo Gotti, Meek Mill, and two of the Team Roc attorneys signed an open letter addressed to several state officials, including Governor Brian Kemp. Team Roc acknowledges that Gregory and Travis McMichael were arrested […]
