8/5/25

Urban Reads Bookstore owner receives over 500 racist messages

Reporter, Photographer and Editor: Linnea Hoover

"I started posting your f****** phone number for everybody to call you up and talk to you about it."

Doxing.

"I didn't want you to be a liar, so I thought I'd give you a call and call you a *** and a monkey, you f****** *** monkey b****."

Racism.

"We're all three, about two hours away from that 3008 address that you have listed."

Threats and intimidation.

How one Baltimore bookstore owner is fighting back.

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