Local Columnist Threatened By White Supremacist Websites

Robert Redding first broke the story and it’s since been picked up by several news outlets: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., who lives in Bowie, Maryland, has been targeted by several white supremacist websites following a column Pitts wrote about black-on-white crime. The FBI is currently investigating.

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