hate crime

Asian Americans have faced a dangerous climate since the coronavirus entered the U.S. a year ago

Asian American lawmakers, along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats, denounced on Friday a rise in hate incidents targeting members of the Asian community across the country and called for stronger action — both by Congress and the Biden administration.

Racist incidents and attacks on members of the Asian community in public have, in part, persuaded some families not to send their children back to in-person schooling, administrators say

After several attacks on members of the Asian-American community in the Bay Area, a rally was held in Oakland to promote multicultural healing Saturday.

Hate crimes against Asian Americans have been on the rise since the coronavirus came to the U.S. last year. With a recent surge in these racist incidents attracting renewed attention, Amanda Nguyen, CEO of the civil rights organization Rise, joined LX News to explain why “Asian Americans are dying to be heard.”

Over 100 people gathered in support during a vigial after a brick with a racist message was thrown at the front door of Oak Park’s Live Café and Creative Space. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports

“Orange is the New Black” star Laverne Cox shared a 10 minute Instagram video about being caught up in a transphobic attack in Los Angeles. NBCLX welcomed transgender activist Raquel Willis and Zahara Green of TRANScending Barriers to discuss the rise of hate crimes against the transgender community, plus the reaction to actor Elliot Page declaring themself transgender.

Members of the LGBTQ community shared their experiences with discrimination in light of Federal Bureau of Investigation data, which put race and sexual orientation as the top motivators for hate crimes. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

A white woman faces a felony hate crime charge after police said she initiated a racist confrontation with a group of Black men at a beach in suburban Chicago

Cynthia Choi of Chinese for Affirmative Action breaks down the increasing number of violent incidents directed at Asian Americans in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic and how President Trump’s rhetoric has fueled the violence.

Incidents of racism have become more visible due to cell phone cameras and social media, but hate crimes are still underreported across the U.S., according to Roy L. Austin, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. The reasons include distrust between the Black community and law enforcement, and a lack of incentive for officials to report...

An alleged assault on a biracial woman in Madison is being investigated as a hate crime after the 18-year-old told police she was burned by lighter fluid thrown at her and ignited by a white man, just a few blocks from protests at the state Capitol.

The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that it will seek the death penalty for a man accused of opening fire inside a Poway synagogue last year, killing a woman and injuring three others.

A white nationalist Norwegian who killed his stepsister and then stormed an Oslo mosque and opened fire, hitting no one, was found guilty Thursday and sentenced to 21 years in prison, the longest jail term under Norwegian law. Philip Manshaus, who had said in court that he regretted not having caused more damage, “has proven to be an extremely dangerous…

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\tA BLACK WOMAN – INSIDE A STARBUCKS IS CONFRONTED BY A WHITE MAN.
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\tBUT IT DOESN’T END THERE.
\tCHRIS COFFEY REPORTS.

A video released this week shows police in Georgia attempting to search Ahmaud Arbery’s parked car in 2017, and when he refuses to let them and begins to walk back to the vehicle, an officer tries to use a stun gun on him. First obtained by The Guardian, the video released Monday shows Arbery refusing Glynn County police when they...

The attorney for a homeowner thrust into the spotlight of the Ahmaud Arbery shooting says a young black man filmed by a security camera walking through the unfinished home in December and February may have stopped there for a drink of water

Less than two weeks before Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by two men and fatally shot after purportedly entering a home under construction in Brunswick, Georgia, one of the suspects reported an encounter with a man at the same building site, according to NBC News.

The owner of a house under construction that played a role in the deadly shooting of a black man in Georgia says nothing was stolen from the house

Georgia’s attorney general has appointed a black district attorney from the Atlanta area to take over the case of a white father and son charged with killing a black man