Bureau of Justice Statistics June 29, 2017 WASHINGTON — U.S. residents experienced an average of 250,000 hate crime victimizations each year from 2004 to 2015 and the majority of these were not reported to police, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. There was no statistically significant change in the rate of violent
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by Gregory Wallace June 6, 2017 (CNN)Education Secretary Betsy DeVos indicated discrimination in schools on the basis of sexual orientation is "unsettled" law and a matter for Congress and the courts to address -- not her department. After declining last month to say how she would handle allegations of private school discrimination under a
by Gloria Gomez May 23, 2017 TAMPA (FOX 13) - Alyssa Himmelman is heartbroken. Her older brother, 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman was one of two people murdered at a Tampa condo complex on Friday. "He was so funny everyone loved him," said Himmelman. "They didn't call Friday, they called us Saturday. It was on the news before
by Matthew Haag and Jacey Fortin May 27, 2017 The Oregon man accused of screaming anti-Muslim insults at two women, and then fatally stabbing two men and wounding a third as they tried to intervene on Friday, had a history of making extremist remarks, according to the police and civil rights advocacy organizations. In
by Thacher Schmid May 27, 2017 A 35-year-old white supremacist with a criminal record has been arrested in connection with the stabbing deaths Friday of two men on a light-rail train in Portland, Ore., who intervened when he began to hurl anti-Muslim epithets at two women, one who was wearing a head scarf, police
by Associated Press May 30, 2017 A California man is facing hate crime and other charges after police say he stabbed a black man with a machete after yelling racial slurs over the holiday weekend. Police in Clearlake, about 80 miles north of San Francisco, say they responded to an apartment complex Saturday night
May 27, 2017 A bomb threat, racist taunts and graffiti are among a significant rise in hate crimes reported to Greater Manchester Police following Monday's attack, the BBC can reveal. The force said the number of such reports had doubled to 56 on Wednesday, from the 28 reported on Monday. Chief Constable Ian Hopkins
May 27, 2017 NPR's Michel Martin talks with Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich about raised concerns of an increase in hate crimes after stabbings in Maryland and Oregon. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: A stabbing attack on a train in Portland, Ore., has left two people dead. The attacker was shouting what
Join us at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC), to learn supportive ways to generate less heat and more light in our national dialogue. JULY 12-14, 2017 Race and Reconciliation - Thomas Kochman and Jean Mavrelis Contemporary intercultural/interracial relations are front and center in the USA in the last several years. Most often, we feel the anguish, and