Hate speech

We do not fight hate by mirroring it. We fight hate by standing firm in who we are, by creating space for others to exist in safety and dignity. Column by Tjuana Fulford.

Riverhead Central School District officials have opened an investigation this week into swastikas drawn on desks in a Riverhead High School classroom.

Riverhead Supervisor Yvette Aguiar said yesterday she has referred the racist hate mail received by the former Riverhead school superintendent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In the week before former Riverhead school superintendent Dr. Aurelia Henriquez unexpectedly resigned her position in June, she received three notes containing racial and ethnic slurs and warning her “resign or you will suffer.”

Residents in a Calverton neighborhood woke up today to find flyers in their driveways proclaiming "White Lives Matter," urging them to "take a stand" and signed with an email address containing the known white supremacist numeric symbol 1488.