“Hate” In the News

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    Below are news stories and events related to hate crimes and domestic terrorism from around the world!

    Hate crimes in Chicago rose 20 percent in 2016, marking 5-year high, police data show

    By | March 7th, 2017|Articles|

    by Zak Koeske March 3, 2017   Hate crimes in Chicago hit a five-year high in 2016 and this year are out pacing last year's reports of bias incidents, according to Chicago Police Department data.

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    Sikh man’s shooting in Washington investigated as hate crime

    By | March 7th, 2017|Articles|

    By Artemis Moshtaghian, Huizhong Wu and Susannah Cullinane, CNN March 6, 2017   (CNN)The shooting victim seemed like most of his other neighbors, except that he wore a turban and beard. And it was those

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    Hate Group Numbers in U.S. Rose for 2nd Year in a Row, Report Says

    By | March 6th, 2017|Articles|

    by Liam Stack and Daniel Victor February 15, 2017   The number of extremist groups active in the United States rose for the second year in a row last year, propelled in part by the

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    Bomb threats, cemetery desecration further wave of anti-Semitic hate crimes

    By | March 6th, 2017|Articles|

    by Matthew Rozsa February 21, 2017   The wave of anti-Semitic hate crime that has swept through America in 2017 has had some new installments: the desecration of a cemetery in Missouri and nearly a dozen

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