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Racial Terror in American History
Four series covering four centuries of organized racial violence in America — from slave patrols to the Buffalo supermarket shooting of 2022.
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Racial Violence in Modern America
Three articles on racial violence from 1998 to the present — Charleston Buffalo El Paso and the data showing it never stopped after the civil rights era.
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White Supremacist Resurgence: The Movement That Never Left
White supremacy did not resurge — it evolved from Klan robes to encrypted apps and YouTube algorithms. The FBI calls racially motivated extremism America's top domestic terror threat.
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Hate Crimes in America: The Data Behind the Pattern
The FBI reports around 11000 hate crimes per year. The actual count is closer to 265000. Black Americans are the most targeted group every year since 1992.
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The Charleston Church Shooting: White Supremacy in a House of God
Dylann Roof killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17 2015. He wanted to start a race war. A failed FBI background check let him buy his gun.
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Blood of the Civil Rights Movement
Seven articles on the violence against the civil rights movement — Emmett Till to Malcolm X. The legislation happened. Here is what it cost.
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem on February 21 1965. Two of the three men convicted of his murder spent decades in prison for a crime they did not commit.
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The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4 1968. He was 39 and supporting striking sanitation workers earning poverty wages.
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Selma and Bloody Sunday: The Bridge That Changed America
On March 7 1965 state troopers beat 600 voting rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama. The footage broadcast on TV forced the Voting Rights Act.
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Freedom Rider Attacks: When Buses Became Battlegrounds
On Mother's Day 1961 a Freedom Rider bus was firebombed outside Anniston Alabama while police watched. The federal government asked the riders to stop.
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Medgar Evers: Assassinated in His Own Driveway
Medgar Evers was shot in his driveway in Jackson Mississippi on June 12 1963. His killer Byron De La Beckwith remained free for 30 years and boasted about it.
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The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing: Four Girls on a Sunday Morning
On September 15 1963 KKK members bombed a Birmingham church killing four girls — Addie Mae Collins Cynthia Wesley Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair.