diff --git a/djangoldp/tests/runner.py b/djangoldp/tests/runner.py
index 47fcb93e95edb31b3cb934084b3f5684ff40f6d3..2f2958ca2155c5c281a673898d0b91008a32c132 100644
--- a/djangoldp/tests/runner.py
+++ b/djangoldp/tests/runner.py
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ failures = test_runner.run_tests([
     'djangoldp.tests.tests_update',
     'djangoldp.tests.tests_auto_author',
     # 'djangoldp.tests.tests_temp'
-    'djangoldp.tests.tests_get'
+    'djangoldp.tests.tests_get',
+    'djangoldp.tests.tests_delete'
 ])
 if failures:
     sys.exit(failures)
diff --git a/djangoldp/tests/tests_delete.py b/djangoldp/tests/tests_delete.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91b3a85ff59221f237375f267302b1c343941dd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/djangoldp/tests/tests_delete.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+from django.test import TestCase
+from rest_framework.test import APIRequestFactory, APIClient
+
+from djangoldp.tests.models import Post
+
+
+class TestDelete(TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.factory = APIRequestFactory()
+        self.client = APIClient()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        pass
+
+    def test_delete(self):
+        post = Post.objects.create(content="content")
+        response = self.client.delete('/posts/{}/'.format(post.pk), content_type='application/ld+json')
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 204)
+
+        self.assertEqual(Post.objects.filter(pk=post.pk).count(), 0)
diff --git a/djangoldp/views.py b/djangoldp/views.py
index 51cfd4537fd09b713a8ca37f81bab3e3d0706398..5c68bc299dfd4f9ba9ce581f226b3f261730e42b 100644
--- a/djangoldp/views.py
+++ b/djangoldp/views.py
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ class JSONLDRenderer(JSONRenderer):
     media_type = 'application/ld+json'
 
     def render(self, data, accepted_media_type=None, renderer_context=None):
-        data["@context"] = settings.LDP_RDF_CONTEXT
+        if data is not None:
+            data["@context"] = settings.LDP_RDF_CONTEXT
         return super(JSONLDRenderer, self).render(data, accepted_media_type, renderer_context)