In lending her voice to discussing the increased hate crimes against Asians and Asian-Americans since the onset of COVID-19, Jeannie Mai said that racism has no hierarchy...and that's just not true.
The actor was gathered on social media after he tweeted a post in honor of the late George Floyd.
Like many, I was on cloud nine when I heard about the heavy sentence a white supremacist couple got in Georgia at the beginning of the month. Kayla Norton and Jose “Joe” Torres (I never heard of a white supremacist named Jose by the way, talk about self-hate) got a combined 19 years behind bars for […]
(Wall Street Journal) — The number of hate-crime incidents and victims declined in 2009 compared to the previous year, the FBI reported Monday. Of more than 6,000 hate-crime offenders, more than six in 10 were white while nearly two in 10 were black. Nearly half of the crime incidents in 2009 were motivated by racial bias […]
(WSJ) — A hate-crime indictment against a teenager accused of beating and racially abusing a Mexican student was dropped by a Supreme Court judge on Tuesday after a request by the Staten Island district attorney. The case was among a rash of alleged bias incidents that increased the police presence in the borough as well […]
(BET ) — For the New Black Panther Party, it’s simple: A black man being shot to death by a white man and dragged for miles behind a pickup truck is a racial hate crime. For local authorities and residents in this city of 11,000 in central South Carolina, it’s not so clear: The suspect […]
(NYT) — In the public’s imagination, the classic hate crime is an assault born of animus against a particular ethnicity or sexual orientation, like the case of the Long Island man convicted in April of killing an Ecuadorean immigrant after hunting for Hispanics to beat up. But in Queens since 2005, at least five people have been […]