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By Bwog Staff on Apr 15, 2021
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A noose was found at the Union Theological Seminary on Wednesday afternoon in an incident currently being investigated by the NYPD as a hate crime.
Content warning: This article contains content relating to hate crimes, racism, and suicide.
On Wednesday, April 14, a noose was found hanging in an elevator room from a metal pipe on the roof of McGiffert Hall, a residential building for both UTS students and faculty. In a statement on the UTS website, President Serene Jones shared that the NYPD is investigating this incident as a hate crime and asked the community to share any relevant information they may have, noting that at this time that UTS does not know how long the noose has been in the building or who placed it there. Additionally, she shared that UTS takes campus safety very seriously, and they are actively reviewing
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BRATTLEBORO â The Rev. Susie Webster-Toleno and her husband, state Rep. Tristano Toleno, D-Windham 2-3, moved to New York City in the mid 1990s, as Webster-Toleno attended divinity school at Union Theological Seminary.
In McGiffert Hall where the young couple lived, just down the hall was a serious and studious doctoral student who earlier this month garnered headlines all over the world â Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who became the first Black man to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate.
Webster-Toleno, the minister for the Westminster West Congregational Church, and a chaplain with Bayada Hospice, said sheâs not surprised at Warnockâs success.