With the NFL and NBA lockout in full effect, athletes have been taking this time to relax and enjoy their newfound freedom. Shawne Merriman was spotted in South Beach in Miami, FL catching some sun and cooling off in the water. Merriman has been trying to gain his strength back to get his head back […]
Inside of a bus in Long Island anti-gay slurs, taunting, and bullying remarks were being tossed around for weeks but on Thursday it moved into physical assault. ‘Punches, backhand slaps and kicks, the victim retreated to the back of the bus where the defendants followed and continued with the assault,’ Nassau County Police Det. Lt. […]
Members of a street gang who discovered one of their teenage recruits was gay brutally beat and tortured him and two other people in gruesome assaults, police said. The attack came amid heightened attention nationwide to anti-gay bullying after a string of suicides attributed to it last month. Seven of the suspects in the attacks […]
A patron at the Stonewall Inn, a powerful symbol of the gay rights movement since protests over a 1969 police raid there, was tackled to the floor and beaten in an anti-gay bias attack over the weekend, authorities said Monday. Two men were arrested in the early Sunday beating, which came little more than a […]
Racism has reared its ugly head once again. In South Carolina, Gregory Collins, 19, is charged with the murder of Anthony Hill, 30. Collins shot Hill to death and his body was dragged for several miles. Hill died from a single gunshot wound to the head, Newberry County Coroner Craig Newton said. Hill was dead […]
Just as hot trends meet their death when discovered by The Times Style Section – see Trucker Hats – emerging cultural themes usually go mainstream after a close-up in the paper’s Week in Review. Now, after years of skirmishing below the radar, The Times has taken notice of the nexus between conservative talk radio and […]
Hey Conservatives, Where Is the Love? Yesterday, shots rang out just blocks from my office and reminded me that hate is alive and well. At the National Holocaust Museum, a shrine meant to commemorate lives lost to senseless violence and hate, a life was taken by senseless hate and violence. Security officer Stephen T. Johns […]
As quiet as it’s kept, there is Anti-Obama hip hop that has begun to circulate across the nation.
