This Massachusetts School Has Endured Months of Racist, Hateful Graffiti—but Can’t Seem to Find the Culprit
At the only public high school in Reading, Mass., swastikas and other hateful graffiti have become a regular occurrence.
Hate Crimes Rise for Third Consecutive Year, Someone Should Get the News to These Racists
American law enforcement agencies reported more than 7,100 hate crimes to the FBI in 2017, a 17 percent uptick from the 6,121 reported in 2016, even as violent crime resumed its slow downward trend after increases in 2015 and 2016.
NBC, What Is You Doing? The Today Show Airs a White Supremacist Infomercial
As America impatiently endures a white supremacist president; as hate crimes become more prevalent; as our government disappears the children of immigrants into the ether as if we have been teleported into some surreal anti-immigrant David Copperfield nightmare ...
White Nationalists Who Jumped Black Man in a Bar Charged With Hate Crime
Police have charged at least six alleged white nationalists who assaulted a black man in a bar outside of Pittsburgh, Penn., with ethnic intimidation after they jumped the man in a back room.
Package Bombs That Killed 2 in Austin, Texas, Are Connected, Police Say
The city of Austin, Texas, is on edge after authorities said Monday they believe that three package explosions occurring at different homes this month, causing the death of two people, are connected.
Colorado Man Convicted of Hate Crime Against Mosque Kills Himself
A Colorado man who pleaded guilty to a hate crime against a mosque killed himself this past weekend, CBS News reports.
Report: Water Is Wet, Fire Is Hot—Oh, and Race Relations Got Worse After Trump’s Election
A fascinating new report has revealed some important information of which you may not be aware: If you touch a hot stove, you might get burned. Water is wet, fire is hot, and most Americans believe race relations in our country got worse after Donald Trump was elected.
After Black Transgender Woman Is Killed in Oklahoma City, Police Are Still Searching for Answers
Around 2:30 Monday morning, Oklahoma City police responded to a disturbance at a local motel. Upon arriving, they found the body of Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson, a 31-year-old black transgender woman. She had been murdered.
FBI Releases Hate Crime Statistics for 2016: Majority of Offenders Were White
On Monday the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program released its annual Hate Crime Statistics Report, which is a compilation of bias-motivated incidents that have been reported throughout the United States.
US Mint Philadelphia Worker Leaves Noose on Black Colleague’s Chair
A white U.S. Mint Philadelphia employee has been placed on leave after a noose was found at the work station of a black colleague, CBS News reports.
NY Seeks to Make Killing Cops a Hate Crime but Is Still Cool With Cops Killing Black People
The New York State Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would increase the penalties for killing first responders by making doing so a hate crime.
Killing of Black Man by Self-Proclaimed White Supremacist in NYC ‘Most Likely an Act of Terrorism’: Prosecutor
Prosecutors in New York City are saying that the targeted killing of a black man in midtown Manhattan was most likely an act of terrorism after, they charge, self-proclaimed white supremacist James Harris Jackson, 28, stabbed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman to death.
Jeff Sessions Is the New Jim Crow
Perhaps the worst thing about America’s mistreatment of black people in this country has nothing to do with the violence inflicted against us or the centuries of historic subjugation we’ve endured. It is the constant disregard for our voices that frustrates us most.
Calif. Man Arrested in Stabbing Outside Simi Valley Mosque
Police in California have arrested a man accused of stabbing a Muslim man who was leaving a mosque with his family late Saturday, the New York Daily News reports.
White Supremacist Stabs Interracial Couple in Olympia, Wash.
A kiss between a black man and white woman reportedly enraged a self-proclaimed white supremacist so much that he stabbed them outside a bar in the state of Washington without any provocation.
