Examining why hate crimes are at historic highs — especially in Los Angeles
NPR’s Leila Fadel talks to Robin Toma, executive director of the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, about a 71% increase in reported hate crimes in Los Angeles
Suspect indicted on murder as a hate crime charge in NYC attack on Asian man
Jarrod Powell, 50, was indicted in the April assault on Yao Pan Ma, a 61-year-old father of two who died eight months after his head was stomped in the brutal attack. Read more
Maine Man Indicted for Hate Crime Offenses Relating to Burning of a Black Church in Springfield, Massachusetts
A Maine man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Mass., in connection with the Dec. 28, 2020, fire that destroyed a predominately Black church in Springfield.
Kansas Man Pleads Guilty to Racially Motivated Federal Hate Crime Targeting Black Man
The Justice Department announced today that Colton Donner, 27, pleaded guilty in federal court to threatening an African American man with a knife because of the man’s race, and
D.A. Bragg Announces Hate Crime Murder Charges in Anti-Asian Attack of Yao Pan Ma in East Harlem
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg today announced the indictment of JARROD POWELL, 50, for brutally assaulting Yao Pan Ma, a 61-year-old Chinese immigrant, in East Harlem on
Roma accuse government of hypocrisy over Jimmy Carr joke
Ministers’ criticism of comedian at odds with planned laws harmful to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, leaders say. Read more
State prosecutors mostly avoided race in trying Ahmaud Arbery’s killers. Feds won’t have that option as hate crimes trial begins today with jury selection
Georgia prosecutors proved Ahmaud Arbery’s killers guilty of murder. Now, lawyers for the federal government will try to prove they chased down the 25-year-old jogger becaus
Jury selection begins in Arbery death hate crimes trial
Jury selection has started in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men already convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. Read more
NYPD investigating 3 weekend incidents in Brooklyn as possible hate crimes
Officers with the New York City Police Department’s hate crimes unit are investigating three incidents in Brooklyn over the weekend that have drawn the attention of Mayor Er
CAIR-Houston Condemns White Supremacist Flyers Left at Houses in Harris County, Urges Hate Crime Probe
he Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Houston) today condemned the distribution of flyers promoting the racist white supremacist group Identity Ar
