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Candace Owens was born April 29, 1989, in White Plains, New York, and raised primarily in Stamford, Connecticut; her early life included family instability, racial incidents in school that led to a le...
Candace Owens alleged that, while a senior at Stamford High School in 2007, a group of boys called her cell phone and left multiple threatening, racist voicemails — described by her as including death...
Candace Owens has consistently said that, as a Stamford High senior in 2007, she received multiple threatening voicemails that contained “death threats,” “graphic racist epithets,” and other threateni...
Candace Owens says she received three racist, threatening voicemails as a 17‑year‑old senior at Stamford High in 2007; police investigated, forensic analysis was sought, and her family later settled a...
Available reporting and public records show Candace Owens received multiple threatening, racist voicemails as a 17‑year‑old at Stamford High in 2007; her family sued the Stamford Board of Education an...
Stamford reporting identifies at least two separate voicemail- or call-related episodes in local school history: a 2007 case in which Candace Owens says four boys left threatening voicemails that led ...
Stamford school officials responded to Candace Owens’s 2007 voicemail allegations with a police investigation, forensic analysis of the tapes, and later a federal lawsuit settlement: the Stamford Boar...
Candace Owens’ upbringing is repeatedly described as shaped by early family disruption, being raised by grandparents, and formative stories and lessons about race, work and personal responsibility tha...
Growing up in Stamford, Connecticut provided Candace Owens with a specific set of experiences—family upheaval, a racially mixed and working‑class local environment, a highly publicized harassment epis...
Contemporaneous public records from 2007–2008 about the Stamford voicemail matter are found in local police and school/court filings: Stamford Police generated incident and arrest reports tied to a Ma...
Candace Owens has described the Stamford voicemail incident principally through a 2016 first‑person "open letter" published in the Stamford Advocate and in multiple local and national interviews and p...
The NAACP acted as a public advocate and physical protector for Candace Owens in the 2007 Stamford harassment incident—holding press conferences and escorting her back to school—while local officials,...
Candace Owens’ high-school lawsuit and the roughly $37,500 settlement with the Stamford (Stamford/Stamford Board of Education) school system were first reported in Connecticut local press around the t...
Candace Owens has repeatedly described a 2007 incident in which anonymous classmates left her racist, threatening voicemail messages while she was a Stamford High School senior; she has quoted some li...