Oct 28, 2017
Two white nationalist rallies took place in Tennessee on Saturday, October 28: one in Shelbyville and another in Murfreesboro, USA Today reports. They were protesting the presence of immigrants from Somalia, Sudan, and other parts of the world. Some cited a shooting that took place in a Nashville church on September 24, whose suspect...
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Oct 27, 2017
Two Goshen men accused of targeting a black neighbor have been charged with hate crimes, District Attorney Tim Ward announced Wednesday. The charges follow a stabbing Sunday in Goshen that left a man in critical condition in Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center. The man, whose name wasn’t released, is...
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Sophomore Logann Pruneda is speaking out after she says she was attacked on campus at Bullard High school for being gay. Her parent allowed the 16-year-old to sit down with us for an interview. She says a group of students pelted her with juice boxes and shouted homophobic slurs...
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Police charged a Delaware man with a hate crime after he allegedly told authorities he was considering throwing Molotov cocktails at the home of neighbors he believed were Muslim. The News Journal in Wilmington reports Gerard Medvec, 64, of Delaware City, had been spying on his neighbors with binoculars...
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A south suburban woman whose racially charged rant at a black couple last fall earned her viral infamy and hate crime charges, will spend at least a few weeks in jail. Jessica Sanders, of Alsip, was eventually acquitted of two felony hate crime counts and an aggravated battery charge,...
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Jason Gardner first recounted the attack to police as he lay on a hospital bed shortly after midnight on June 6, 2017: The 15-year-old was in the creek behind the Cedarwood Trails mobile home park in New Haven, Indiana, where he’d lived since February. He was walking across the...
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Oct 20, 2017
Students staged a walkout on Monday after a cellphone video appeared to show a New Jersey high school English teacher reprimanding three students for speaking Spanish and telling them to speak “American.” The teacher told the students that U.S. soldiers are “not fighting for your right to speak Spanish...
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Oct 9, 2017
A white nationalist rally dubbed “Charlottesville 3.0” could provide a blueprint for future controversial protests across the nation even as livid political leaders struggle to halt the demonstrations they consider racist. The rally on Saturday, featuring white supremacist leader Richard Spencer, was the third prompted by the Virginia city’s plans to...
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A substitute teacher at a Charlotte-Mecklenburg School is at the center of a review after a video was posted to social media that appeared to show the teacher scolding a student for speaking Spanish. The incident happened at South Mecklenburg High School Monday morning. The video, shared on Facebook,...
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For the second time in recent months, the Baldwin County School System finds itself investigating a politically-charged incident at one of its schools. The latest involves a picture, shared on social media Saturday, of two Robertsdale high school students standing and smiling with the school’s mascot. One of the...
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