by Dan Bilefsky April 3, 2017 LONDON — The Kurdish-Iranian teenager was waiting with friends at a bus stop in south London when a gang of men and women in their 20s cornered him and asked him in aggressive tones where he was from. When he replied that he was an asylum seeker, the
by Melissa Eddy and Mark Scott March 14, 2017 BERLIN — Social media giants including Facebook and Twitter are not doing enough to curb hate speech on their platforms and could face fines of up to $53 million if they do not strengthen their efforts to delete illegal posts, a German government minister said
by Dom Phillips March 8, 2017 RIO DE JANEIRO — The killing of a transgender woman who was beaten, tortured, shot and then bashed on the head with a big stone has horrified and transfixed Brazil, training attention on the violence and discrimination suffered by transgender people in South America’s most populous nation. The
by Jim Dwyer March 23, 2017 Draped in the clouds of his white spacesuit, James Harris Jackson, 28, trim light hair above a shaved, doughy face, was led in handcuffs out of a police station house in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday morning, then driven downtown for his arraignment. Prosecutors say Mr. Jackson traveled to
by Anna North March 24, 2017 Rajpreet Heir was taking the L train to a friend’s birthday party in Manhattan this month when a white man began shouting at her. “Do you even know what a Marine looks like?” the man asked Ms. Heir, who is pictured in the video above. “Do you know
by Rev. Al Sharpton March 28, 2017 During Monday’s White House briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer was asked a question about a rise in hate crimes, including the recent murder of Timothy Caughman at the hands of a white supremacist. His response? Not only did Spicer fail to acknowledge that Caughman’s death was a
by David Gonzalez April 2, 2017 Nayra and Gabriela don’t go out much these days, and not just because the two roommates are homebodies. When they venture outside their apartment in Queens, their hesitation is caused as much by emotional wounds as by physical injuries. The two friends are trans women, and though their
by Louis Weisberg April 3, 2017 A 23-year-old man has been charged with the stabbing death of Andrew G. Nesbitt in his downtown Madison apartment. Nesbitt had moved to Madison after surviving a previous attack outside an Oshkosh gay bar. His roommate found his body on March 27, Nesbitt’s 46th birthday. Darrick E. Anderson,
by Nikita Biryukov April 1, 2017 Propelled by a nationwide surge in hate crimes, lawmakers in several states are working to deter potential offenders with harsher punishments. Bills in New York would, among other things, make cemetery desecration a felony, and a Connecticut bill promises to be the most comprehensive hate crime legislation to
by Isabel Kershner, Adam Goldman, Alan Blinder, and Richard Perez-Pena March 23, 2017 JERUSALEM — A monthslong wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the United States that prompted evacuations, heightened security and fears of rising anti-Semitism gave way to an unexpected twist on Thursday. The person responsible for many of the threats,