Two police officers in Anniston, Alabama have been placed on administrative leave over allegations that they belong to a hate group, according to AL.com. Lt
Police are continuing their investigation into the South Carolina shooting that left nine dead at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, but the suspect
Suspect in Charleston #AMEshooting identified as Dylann Roof, 21, of Lexington County http://t.co/r0Xy6LKzQ1 pic.twitter.com/JThebV3n7R — NewsOne (@newsone) June 18, 2015 Police have arrested Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old Lexington County, South Carolina native who killed nine people Wednesday evening at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. One of the victims included the church’s pastor and […]
As details regarding the Charleston, SC church shooting continue to unfold, the nation is grappling yet again with what appears to be a violent hate
A survivor of the Emanuel AME shooting in Charleston, South Carolina says she was left alive to retell the incident, The Post Courier reports.
An incident involving a transgender woman getting pushed onto the subway tracks in New York City has now been labeled a hate crime. The incident occurred Monday morning at the platform of a No. 6 train heading towards Brooklyn at Bleecker Street. David Hollister, 28, who identifies as a woman, was waiting for the train when […]
A hate crime is being investigated in Lindenhurst, New York after a black family received an anonymous note urging them to leave the town. According to the Lindenhurst Patch, the shocking display of racism made it’s way across social media and reads, “Lindenhurst is 84% white. You don’t belong here!!!” Ronica Copes, the woman who received […]
A federal hate crime occurred at the University of Mississippi when a former student placed a noose on the school’s James Meredith statue last year. According to the Justice Department, the former student, Graeme Phillip Harris, has been indicted on all charges. [ABC News] A young man, believed to be a Florida State University student, […]
A Florida man is facing hate crime charges after hitting a black man with a bottle during a bar fight, the Daytona Beach News Journal reports. Deputies say Jason Cuellar of Ormond Beach approached the man at the Hideout Lounge on Friday and told him “this bar is not for blacks.” The victim, 24-year-old Kenneth Hodge, ignored […]
The man accused of shooting and killing three Muslim students last week was indicted on three counts of first-degree murder by a grand jury Monday. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, shot his neighbors — Deah Shaddy Barakat, wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha — over what the suspect’s now estranged wife and police […]
Challenging post-racial believers everywhere, a white Missouri man is in some serious trouble after telling a black waitress that he would like to take her to the place where he “hung” her grandfather. That man, 65-year-old Tommy Dean Gaa of Maryville, was charged with felony assault motivated by discrimination for confronting the woman as she […]
A transgender woman in North Tyler, Texas, was found dead on 24th Street yesterday morning, with one of her friends believing it to be a hate crime. According to KYTX, authorities say that 24-year-old Ty Lee Underwood was shot to death, despite her friends saying that she did not have any known enemies. Her roommate […]
