A sixth-grade student who last week accused three classmates of forcibly cutting her dreadlocks has admitted she made up the allegations, according to her family and the school principal. Amari Allen, a 12-year-old African-American girl, had accused three white boys in her grade at Immanuel Christian school, in Springfield, Virginia. She said they held her down…
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12-year-old gets her locs cut by white classmates in school
One of the teachers at the school is Vice President Mike Pence’s wife. A Virginia school is under fire after it was revealed that a group of white boys pinned down their Black classmate and cut off her locs as they mocked her as “nappy” and “ugly.”
Feds Arrest White Supremacist Who Targeted Virginia Black Lives Matter Activist With Threats of Violence
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday announced federal charges against a Florida man officials said made racist threats targeting the co-founder of a local Black Lives Matter chapter intending to run for city council in Charlottesville, Virginia. Daniel McMahon, 31, was arrested and charged on four counts, including willful interference with a candidate for…
Virginia woman gives birth to healthy son in bathtub after hospital sends her home
A father in Chesapeake, Va. had to deliver his own son in the bathtub of his family’s home after the hospital told him and his pregnant wife to come back when her labor was further along. A father in Chesapeake, Va. had to deliver his own son in the bathtub of his family’s home after…
Judge rules confederate statue behind Charlottesville rally to remain standing
The removal of a confederate statue which was the focal point of the 2017 deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has been blocked by a Virginia judge. Police officers watch as the black sheet that was put over the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, is repaired after a man tried to take ot…
Blackface scandal dampens Virginia governor’s fundraising
Months after a scandal that could have cost him his job, the Virginia governor is having trouble raising money to retain it, but Democrats say they are still confident
