MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors began taking sworn statements Thursday from a group of black Florida teenagers as they weigh possible hate crime charges against an armed white man who confronted the young people with apparent racial hostility during a housing inequality protest on Martin Luther King Day. Several of the teenagers met for more than […]
I am in Durham, North Carolina this morning, on my way back to New York, after speaking last night at Duke University – and I even had a chance to meet a few of our listeners in North Carolina as well. I know some of the morning show crew have been doing this for long […]
SEATTLE (AP) — The FBI is helping investigate an attack by several suspected white supremacists on a black disc jockey at a tavern in Washington state over the weekend, authorities said Monday. Seven men and one woman were arrested for investigation of assault, hate crimes and other allegations early Saturday in Lynnwood, according to the […]
Neighbors did nothing as they were stabbed.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The recent beating of a young man and his father at their Salt Lake City tire shop by an attacker who told police he targeted them because they were Mexican is renewing criticism of the state’s hate crime law, which one prosecutor is calling unusable. Rather than protecting specific groups, […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a white man with federal hate crimes in the killings of two African-Americans at a grocery store last month in Kentucky. A federal grand jury in Louisville returned three hate crime charges against 51-year-old Gregory Bush on Thursday afternoon. U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman said Bush is charged […]
Tennessee authorities have had John Carothers in custody for months. He was charged with murder for burning a black man alive, but investigators were having trouble coming up with a motive. According to News Channel 5, deputies intercepted a letter from Carothers to a white supremacist group and found a motive, Carothers was a racist. The […]
Frederick Taft, 57, was attending a family reunion in a Long Beach, Calif., park over when he was shot and killed inside the restroom. Relatives told the Los Angeles Times that they believe the doting grandfather was targeted because of his race. The murder occurred at about 4:30 p.m. July 21 at Pan American Park, […]
The killing of a black woman by a white man in Shawnee, Kansas is being investigated by the FBI as a possible hate crime. The Black woman, MeShon Cooper, 43, of Kansas City, was found dead July 14 inside of Ronald Lee Kidwell’s home. Kidwell is a 47-year-old white man and has been charged in Johnson […]
Are these your folks, Kanye?
Police said Tuesday that a Maryland man admitted that his hatred for Blacks was the reason that he fatally stabbed an African-American New Yorker Monday night.
A Staten Island, New York chiropractor is behind bars after issuing several racist threats to an African-American child and Black NYPD officer, said authorities Wednesday.
