Coinciding with President Donald Trump’s efforts to label the COVID-19 pandemic a “Chinese virus,” a nonprofit that studied all the hate crimes committed in 2019 reported Wednesday that the number of white-nationalist groups are on the rise.
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It took more than 100 years but the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to finally make lynching, a barbaric tool of social and racial control, a federal hate crime.
Read moreFormer “Empire” star Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty Monday to new criminal charges over what police say was a staged hate crime against himself.
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Jeremy Christian, the man who stabbed three people during a racist rant on a crowded commuter train in 2017, will likely spend life in prison after a jury found him guilty Friday on a dozen charges including first-degree murder, assault and menacing.
Read moreOn the night of April 19, 1980, a group of three Klansmen went on a shooting spree in a black neighborhood of Chattanooga. They used gasoline to set fire to a cross made of 2x4s where train tracks crossed over the road.
Read moreActor Jussie Smollett was indicted Tuesday for a second time on charges of lying to police about a racist and anti-gay attack he allegedly staged on himself last year in downtown Chicago.
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Holden Matthews, the white son of a sheriff’s deputy who is accused of setting fires to three predominantly black churches last year, pleaded guilty Monday in state and federal court.
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The aspiring black metal musician who was arrested in a series of fires set at African American churches in Louisiana last spring pleaded guilty Monday to federal and state criminal charges.
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Prosecutors on Thursday filed federal hate crime charges against the 21-year-old Texas man accused of carrying out a deadly mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart last year that authorities say was an act of domestic terrorism motivated by racist beliefs.
Read moreIn a murder case where numerous commuters recorded the violence on cellphone video, the facts are not at issue. As for what motivated him to slash the throats of three unarmed men, attorneys for the killer told a jury Tuesday that he acted in self-defense.
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With two friendly state legislative chambers set to convene next week, Virginia’s Democratic attorney general reintroduced a handful of bills Friday aimed at stopping the rising tide of hate-fueled violence.
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The expansion of Hasidic communities in New York’s Hudson Valley, the Catskills and northern New Jersey been accompanied by flare-ups of rhetoric aimed at new development that some say is cloaked anti-Semitism.
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Bringing federal hate crime charges over a machete attack that left five people wounded at a New York rabbi’s home, prosecutors on Monday highlighted anti-Semitic evidence in the suspect’s internet search history.
Read moreWhen a suspect walked into the home of a rabbi celebrating Hanukkah this weekend and stabbed five celebrants it was the latest in a week of anti-Semitic attacks in the nation’s most demographically diverse area — and an incident that reverberated across the country.
Read moreA woman accused of slapping three people in one of a series of apparently anti-Semitic attacks reported throughout New York during Hanukkah was charged Saturday with attempted assault as a hate crime, court records show.
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An Iowa woman who told police she intentionally ran over a teenager because she believed the girl was Mexican has been charged with another hit-and-run crash that hurt a 12-year-old boy.
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A Colorado man accused of plotting to bomb a synagogue pleaded not guilty Monday to three charges handed down by a federal grand jury.
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Actor Jussie Smollett filed a counterclaim against Chicago asserting the city knows he is telling the truth about an alleged hate crime against him but falsely accused him of lying anyway.
Read moreCiting the FBI’s count of more than 7,000 U.S. hate crimes last year, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren released a plan Tuesday to combat white nationalist violence.
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A 61-year-old white Milwaukee man accused of throwing acid on a Latino U.S. citizen’s face will be charged with a hate crime, increasing the sentence he may receive if convicted, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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