Monthly Archives: August 2017

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Illinois Senate passes measure calling for neo-Nazis to be classified as terror groups

by Robin Eberhardt August 14, 2017   The Illinois Senate on Sunday approved a resolution calling for police to categorize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations, according to the Chicago Tribune. The measure came as a response to Saturday's violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., during which one person died and scores more were injured. “It is vital that we

More LGBTQ People Have Been Killed So Far This Year Than All of 2016: Report

by Laura Evans August 13, 2017   We’re only eight months into the year, but already more LGBTQ people have been killed in 2017 than all of 2016, according to a report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. As of this month, the organization counts 33 hate-violence-related homicides of LGBTQ people, topping last year’s

Islamophobic Trolls Flood CAIR’s Facebook Page with Support for Minnesota Mosque Bombing

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Sikhs in America: A History of Hate

by A.C. Thompson August 4, 2017   Demonized as immigrants. Mistaken for Muslims. For more than a century, Sikhs in the U.S. have faced suspicion and violence. THE 1907 EPISODE in a seaside timber town in Washington came to be known as the Bellingham Riots. Really, though, there were no riots. There was a pogrom. At the