Hate Crime News

Ohio college remains open in face of racial threat

By theGrio

11:06 AM on 02/02/2010

NELSONVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- The president of an Ohio technical college is spending a few days living in a dorm where graffiti warned black students would be killed Tuesday...

California teens accuse police of failure to protect

By theGrio

4:05 PM on 01/27/2010

UNION CITY, Calif. (AP) - The families of California black teens who say they've been the target of racially motivated crimes by a Hispanic gang are suing the Union City police...

Blacks' optimism on race and the economy rises; Latinos wary

By theGrio

11:41 AM on 01/12/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - One year after the election of Obama, black optimism about America has surged, while Hispanics have become more skeptical about race relations...

Slideshow: 12 key civil rights moments of the decade

By Kristen Clarke

10:26 AM on 12/21/2009

OPINION - The first decade of the new century has been marked by incredible triumphs, ongoing challenges, and a number of historic moments...

Feds charge Pa. teens, police officers with hate crimes

By theGrio

11:59 AM on 12/15/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted two Pennsylvania teenagers and four Shenandoah police officers in a hate crimes investigation into a fatal attack on a Hispanic man...

Hate crimes report shows race still an issue

By Kristen Clarke

8:54 AM on 12/02/2009

OPINION - More than half of the hate crimes recorded in 2008 were racially motivated and included acts of intimidation, aggravated and simple assaults and, in some instances, murder...

Congress extends hate crime protections to gays

By theGrio

7:00 AM on 10/23/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law...

A mother's story: Hate crime brings new bond with transgender child

By Bonnita Spikes

8:29 AM on 10/16/2009

OPINION - From one parent to another, more work needs to be done to protect our children regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity...

Update: Man and two teens plead not guilty in hate crime

By theGrio via AP

10:58 AM on 09/28/2009

BALTIMORE (AP) - A man and two teenagers have pleaded not guilty in what authorities describe as the racially motivated beating of an elderly black fisherman...

2 teenagers charged as adults in hate crime against elderly black fisherman

By theGrio via AP

2:39 PM on 08/20/2009

Two teenagers were arrested Thursday and charged as adults in what police say was the racially motivated beating of an elderly black fisherman.

Three charged with hate crime in beating of ice cream vendor

By theGrio via AP

12:42 PM on 08/05/2009

HOUSTON (AP) -- Three white men have been jailed on a hate crime charge in the beating of a black suburban ice cream vendor.

Klansman might walk on charges of kidnap and murder

By theGrio via AP

5:34 PM on 07/30/2009

The U.S. Supreme Court should decide whether a reputed Ku Klux Klansman should have been tried on a kidnapping charge 43 years after two black men were abducted and slain in rural Mississippi, a federal appeals court said Thursday.

AG Holder: New hate crimes law needed

By theGrio via AP

6:34 PM on 06/16/2009

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citing recent killings in Arkansas, Kansas and the nation's capital, Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday said new hate crimes law were needed to stop what he called "violence masquerading as political activism." The attorney general's call for...

Rape on the rise in aftermath of Haiti quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - With no lighting and no security, they are menacing places after sunset...