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9/23/20

England And Wales Want to Make Misogyny A Hate Crime

The Law Commission, an independent body that recommends legal changes in England and Wales, is recommending that…

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Man Connected With Brutal Attack On Trans Women Influencers Released From Prison

Carlton Calloway, a man who was arrested on Thursday of last week in connection with the attack on Joslyn Flawless,…

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8/27/20 9:00AM

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4/9/20

The Persistence of 'Yellow Peril'

I have been playing a strange sort of game lately, one in which I attempt to discern the motivations behind the long…

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Portland Woman Charged With Hate Crime After Ripping Hijab Off Another Woman's Head

A Portland woman was charged with hate crimes for pulling off another woman’s hijab and trying to choke her with it.

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A New Special Prosecutor Will Re-Examine the Jussie Smollett Case

In March, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office dropped all 16 felony charges against Jussie Smollett, who was…

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All Criminal Charges Against Jussie Smollett Have Been Dropped

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, all charges against Empire actor Jussie Smollett were dropped in an unexpected…

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Terrence Howard Defends Empire Co-Star Jussie Smollett

Jussie Smollett’s Empire costars haven’t said much about his arrest last week for allegedly perpetrating a hate…

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Jussie Smollett Gives First Performance Since Attack: 'Now Is the Time. Be Blacker, Be Gayer'

In his first performance since surviving a racist, homophobic attack in Chicago last week, Jussie Smollett told the…

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Police Investigating Attack on Jussie Smollett as Possible Hate Crime

Jussie Smollett, the out actor best known for playing Jamal Lyon on Empire, was hospitalized after being violently…

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Sanders Uses Rare Press Conference to Echo Trump's Blame of Media for Right-Wing Violence

In Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s first press briefing in nearly a month—and the first since two racially-motivated random…

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Law & Order: Hate Crimes Will Investigate Exactly That

The latest police procedural sprung from the mind of Dick Wolf is the self-explanatory Law & Order: Hate Crimes.

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Report: The Number of Anti-LGBTQ Homicides Nearly Doubled in 2017

On Monday, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released its annual report, which documented an alarming…

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30 Years Later, Australian Judge Rules Gay Man's Death a Hate Crime

In 1988, the body of 27-year-old Scott Johnson was found at the base of a cliff in Sydney, Australia. His death was…

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Here's Tucker Carlson Doing a Racist, Poop-Fixated Segment on 'Gypsies' Overtaking a Pennsylvania Town

It is rare that our oldest frenemies can truly surprise us, but on Monday night Fox News did just that, when Tucker…

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17-Year-Old Muslim Girl Captured And Beaten to Death in Virginia

A 17-year-old Muslim girl identified as Nabra was kidnapped and beaten to death early Sunday morning in Sterling,…

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Worshippers Leaving Mosque in North London Struck By Vehicle

In the early hours of Monday morning, a van plowed into pedestrians leaving the Finsbury Park mosque in North…

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Man Who Killed Mercedes Williamson Sentenced for Transphobic Hate Crime

In May 2015, Joshua Vallum brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend, Mercedes Williamson, for fear of others learning…

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Dylann Roof Receives 9 Life Sentences in State Plea

On Monday, Dylann Roof, the man who murdered nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in…

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Timothy Caughman's Killer Has Been Charged With Murder As Terrorism

Last week, 66-year-old Timothy Caughman was stabbed to death by James Harris Jackson, a 28-year-old Baltimore native…

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3/27/17 11:00PM

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