There are many conferences on the technology circuit. I have learned this only too well over the course of the last few years, and I've made speaking appearances at many of them, including Blogher, Netroots Nation, Personal Democracy Forum, and SXSW. Each of these is brilliant in its own way,...

According to police in Ramapo, New York, four Suffern High School students and one former student are being charged with assault as a hate crime. Detective Lt. Brad Weidel stated that on March 28, 2009, several teenagers were at a party in the woods when a handful of white teens...

Catherine Singley, Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation
National Council of La Raza (NCLR)

Earlier this week, our friends at the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) reacted to this week's USA Today article on construction jobs, undocumented workers, and E-Verify. IPC's blog post examines the dubious Center for...

According to an article published in Newsday.com, two of the defendants in the Marcelo Lucero case-which we've covered here, here, here, here, here, and here-last week made their court appearances in the murder of Mr. Lucero. The five other defendants in the case,...

Chon Noriega, PhD, and Francisco Javier Iribarren, MSW-PsyD, just completed a pilot study on hate speech and commercial talk radio at UCLA. Their study used the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) definition of hate speech and sought to develop a way to quantifiably measure the occurrence of hate speech...

On January 21, 2009, a Columbian man, Wilter Sanchez, was brutally attacked in North Plainfield, New Jersey by five men. According to Sanchez, the men called him a "Hispanic son of a bitch" and tried to beat him to death. Sanchez has undergone surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital to...

For more than a year now, we at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) have been chronicling hate on the nation's airwaves, mostly surrounding the immigration debate. It's bad enough that cable television news and radio allow known hate groups and vigilantes on the air, but often the hosts...

On December 8 in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, José Osvaldo Sucuzhanay was murdered in what is believed to be a hate crime. Coming on the heels of November's brutal battery and murder of Marcelo Lucero in Suffolk County, NY, this makes two such murders of Hispanics in barely a...

Originally posted at wecanstopthehate.org

Two years ago, Jordan Gruver, an American citizen, was the victim of a racist attack. Last Friday, a jury awarded Gruver $2.5 million from Imperial Wizard Ron Edwards, leader of the Imperial Klans of America, and former Klansman Jared Hensley. Edwards, the leader of what...

Even as the country was celebrating its extraordinary milestone of electing the first African American President, The Washington Post published a sobering reminder that there is still much work to be done in amending our race relations. The Washington Post reported that three of the largest Latino civil rights groups...

Originally posted at wecanstopthehate.org

NCLR launched http://www.WeCanStoptheHate.org to address the surge of hate and violence infecting the immigration debate, but this is not the only place where hate is showing up these days. Extremists are now bringing hate into the voter debate and the portrayal of people of color....

Originally at wecanstopthehate.org

Originally posted at wecanstopthehate.org

Christopher Michael Szaz was sentenced today in North Carolina for emailing a death threat to the staff of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). Szaz plead guilty to one count of threat by force via email communication to NCLR. He was sentenced to 45...