Indiana Senate Bill 220 passed the senate 34-16 and will now advance to the state House. This bill would offer the possibility of judges to impose harsher sentences to convicted criminals whose actions targeted victims based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, disability, national origin, ancestry or sexual orientation. Indiana …
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“Appearing on CNN’s State of the Nation, a former Obama White House adviser took GOP front-runner Donald Trump to task for a campaign so firmly rooted in bigotry that it has emboldened racists to make unsolicited robocalls in support of his candidacy.” –Raw Story Full Story – Raw Story …
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Because of Germany’s historical involvement in genocide, hate speech in Germany has been considered a serious crime since WWII. While the far-right has often clashed with law enforcement by speaking out against migrants, since the wave of violence in Cologne on New Years Eve where over 100 sexual assaults and robberies by …
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“On “The Rachel Maddow Show” Tuesday evening, host Rachel Maddow played clips from the 1968 presidential campaign of George Wallace, the pro-segregation Alabama populist, and asked her viewers to “close [their] eyes and just listen to the news reports from that election — it’s almost like they’re talking about Donald …
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“Shahjehan Khan, guitarist for The Kominas, told us a harrowing tale about what it’s like for a person of color protesting at a Donald Trump rally.” Full Story – Colorlines
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A suspicious fire in a Houston mosque is under investigation as arson and possible hate crime after it began shortly after the conclusion of services on Christmas Day. The mosque suffered significant damage but no people were injured. Saturday morning an elderly Sikh man was attacked by two people in …
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In the wake of the San Bernadino shootings, California Muslims are particularly threatened by hate speech
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The victim, Mercutio Southall was wearing a #blacklivesmatter T-shirt to the event in Birmingham, AL…
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Vandalism and the placement of a replica grenade are under investigation as possible hate crimes.
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LA Times: “The fire at the Islamic Society of the Coachella Valley mosque is one of several incidents over the past week that officials are investigating as possible backlashes from the San Bernardino terrorist shootings.”
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