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Authorities work to find the source of racist texts sent to Black people nationwide after the election. Here’s what we know

By Dalia Faheid, Ashley R. Williams, Jack Forrest, Jillian Sykes and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country referencing slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.” Children, college students

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A woman was murdered in 1974 while hitchhiking to a Chicago art show. 50 years later, investigators found her killer

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Investigators in Wisconsin used genetic genealogy to solve a 50-year-old cold case this week, charging an 84-year-old Minnesota man with killing a woman who was found dead in 1974, authorities said. Mary K. Schlais, 25, was found dead at an intersection in the township of Spring Brook, Wisconsin on

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Several people across the US have reported receiving racist text messages from unrecognized numbers.

Authorities work to find the source of racist texts sent to Black people nationwide after the election. Here’s what we know

KHOU, KUSA, WSB, WTVF, CNN By Dalia Faheid, Ashley R. Williams, Jack Forrest, Jillian Sykes and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country referencing slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at the

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15 Salisbury University students charged with hate crimes after they allegedly beat a man they lured to an apartment

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Fifteen students at Salisbury University in Maryland are facing assault and hate crime charges after they allegedly targeted a man “due to his sexual preferences” and lured him to an off-campus apartment where they beat him, police said. Police say a man was invited “under false

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What is accelerationism, the White supremacist ideology promoting power station attacks

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — A man “dedicated to white supremacist” beliefs is facing federal charges in an alleged plot to use an explosives-laden drone to blow up a Nashville energy facility “in furtherance of his accelerationist ideology,” a federal criminal complaint filed this week says. Accelerationism “refers to a white-supremacist belief that the

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Several people across the US have reported receiving racist text messages from unrecognized numbers.

Racist texts about slaves and ‘picking cotton’ sent to Black people as state AGs, colleges and police probe their origins

WSB By Ashley R. Williams, Jack Forrest and Jillian Sykes, CNN (CNN) — Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful and bigoted past – have been received by children, college students and working professionals from unrecognized

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