Showing posts with label Hate crimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hate crimes. Show all posts
Saturday, November 4, 2023

New FBI hate crime report sparks concern, prompts action

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  On May 14, 2022, an 18-year-old white supremacist drove over 200 miles to Buffalo and murdered 10 Black people, injuring three others, at ...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Congressional hearing examines threat of white Christian nationalism

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  The House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held its seventh and last hearing on the threat of white nationalism ...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

LGBTQ Americans are 9 times more likely to be victimized by a hate crime

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  In our recent analysis of the National Crime Victimization Survey , we found that the odds of being a violent hate crime victim for LGBTQ...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Suit seeks to limit anti-Muslim speech on Facebook but roots of Islamophobia run far deeper

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  A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its top executives in federal court over the company’s failure to crack down on hate speech ag...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it’s not a hate crime

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  Over the past year, attacks on Asian Americans have increased more than 150% over the previous year, including the March 16 murders of ei...
Monday, November 30, 2020

FBI reports an increase in hate crimes in 2019: Hate-based murders more than doubled

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  Continuing a trend in the Trump era, reported hate crimes across America rose by 3% in 2019 – to 7,314, the highest number recorded since ...
Monday, November 18, 2019

New FBI report shows increase in violent hate crime

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  Although the FBI report released last week shows a minuscule decline in all hate crimes in 2018 , it also shows a 12 percent rise in hate ...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

President Trump is stoking white nationalism, exploiting racist fear

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  In the days since he was implicated as a co-conspirator in a federal crime, the president – with the help of his allies in the right-wing ...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Richard Cohen: Hate crimes rise for second straight year

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  As we feared, the FBI’s hate crime report for 2016 shows a second straight year of increases – the first time that’s happened in a decade...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Richard Cohen: President Trump must push back against the hate he's unleashed

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  As events in Charlottesville last month reflect, President Trump’s incendiary rhetoric has energized the white supremacist movement.   B...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Hate groups increase for second consecutive year as Trump electrifies radical right

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  The number of hate groups in the United States rose for a second year in a row in 2016 as the radical right was energized by the candidacy...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Reports reveal alarming pattern of hate incidents and bullying across the country since election

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  The Southern Poverty Law Center today released two reports documenting how President-elect Donald Trump’s own words have sparked hate inci...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Anisha Singh: This Election Day, Americans cannot afford to take a seat

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  On November 8, millions of Americans will head to the polls to vote for their elected representatives at the local, state, and national le...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Sanam Malik: The ‘Clock Kid’ incident is a small part of a bigger problem

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  Last week, 14-year-old Texas high school student Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade digital clock to school hoping to impress his teacher. I...
Monday, August 6, 2012

David L. Hudson, Jr.: Four lack standing to challenge federal hate-crimes law

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  Three Christian ministers and an anti-homosexuality advocate lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of a federal hate-crimes l...