Hate Crime

Tarlach MacNiallais, Gay Activist, Beaten By Bar Bouncers For Dancing With Man

Posted 12.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Guadalajara De Noche, Tarlach MacNiallais Beating, Queens, Gay Rights, Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, Hate Crime, Tarlach MacNiallais, Gay Beating, New York News

Just two months after two men were caught on tape beating a gay man nearly to death, and a week after the New York State Senate rejected a bill legali...

Read Whole Story

Hijab Case: Why Bigoted Battery Makes For A Hate Crime

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Richard Roeper, Michael O'Connell, Anti-Muslim, Valerie Kenney, Hate Crime, Tinley Park, Amal Abusumayah, Bigotry, Matthew Shepard, Marwa El Sherbini, Chicago News

Amal Abusumayah, a 28-year-old American mother of four young girls, was going about her usual shopping when she was randomly treated to a dose of derogatory comments about her faith.

Read Post

Hate Crime On Rise: Gay, Religious Targets See Biggest Jump

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Religion, Religious Hate Crims, Race, Gay Hate Crime, Sexual Orientation, Religious, Hate Crime, Sexual Orientation Hate Crime, Hate Crimes Increase, Hate Crimes Rise, Hate Crimes, Race Hate Crime, Gay Rights, Home News

WASHINGTON — Reports of hate crimes against gays and religious groups increased sharply in 2008, according to FBI data released Monday. Overall...

Read Whole Story

FBI Reports Small Increase In Hate Crimes, But On Very Limited Data

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Fbi, Hate Crime, Gays, Prejudice, Civil Rights, Politics News

It is not known if the uptick is the result of an actual increase in cases, or instead the result of a rise in the number of agencies participating in the program.

Read Post

Religious, Homophobic Hate Surges In L.A. County

LA Daily News | Troy Anderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Hate Crime, Hate Crimes, Los Angeles News

Partially fueled by the election of President Barack Obama and the statewide controversy over gay marriage, hate crimes based on sexual orientation sh...

Read Whole Story

Suspect Arrested In Brutal Slaying Of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, Gay Teen In Puerto Rico

cnn.com | Arthur Brice | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Puerto Rican Gay Man, Brutal Murder, Decapitation, Arthur Brice, Hate Crime, John A. Martinez, Puerto Rico Murder, Slaying, Juan Antonio Mart�Nez Matos, World News

A suspect has been arrested in the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found Friday decapitated, dismembered and partially burned, police said T...

Read Whole Story

What If He Were Your Child?

Jennifer Evans Gardner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Jennifer Evans Gardner, Matthew Shepard Act, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, Brandon Patrick, Matthew Shepard, Tulsa Oklahoma, Hate Crime, Living News

I pray that I don't have to read about any more citizens on any more streets in any more cities in this country being attacked for being who they are.

Read Post

Jack Price Gay Beating: Daniel Aleman, Daniel Rodriguez Arrested For Hate Crime Attack (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Jack Price, Queens, Gay Slur, Crime, Hate Crime Beating, Hate Crime Assault, Video, Gay Rights, Queens Hate Crime, Hate Crime, College Point, Gay Hate Crime, Daniel Rodriguez, Jack Price Hate Crime, Gay Issues, Daniel Aleman, New York News

Shocking video of the brutal beating of Jack Price has been released just as news of a second arrest in the case was announced. Daniel Rodriguez was ...

Read Whole Story

Jack Price Hate Crime: Daniel Aleman Arrested In Assault Of Queens Gay Man

AP | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Gay Issues, Jack Price, Gay Slur, Gay Rights, Queens Hate Crime, Hate Crime, Hate Crime Beating, Queens, College Point, Gay Hate Crime, New York, Daniel Aleman, New York City, Hate Crime Assault, Jack Price Hate Crime, New York News

NEW YORK — New York City police say a 49-year-old gay man leaving a corner deli near his home was beaten by two men in an apparent hate crime. ...

Read Whole Story

Cracker Barrel Attack: Tasha Hill Beaten In Front Of Daughter, Called Racial Slurs (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

On Tuesday evening police arrested Troy Dale West for beating an African-American army reservist in front of her daughter outside a Cracker Barrel res...

Read Whole Story

Hispanic Man Beaten In Racially Charged Robbery

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 09.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Marcelo Lucero, Hate Crime, Long Island, Long Island Hate Crimes, Hispanic Man Beaten, Patchogue, Hispanic, New York News

NEW YORK — A Hispanic man told investigators he was beaten and robbed in a racially charged attack in a Long Island community where another Hisp...

Read Whole Story

Hate Crimes Law Expansion Passes Senate To Include Sexual Orientation And More

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Crimes Law, Senate Hate Crimes Law, Hate Crimes, Hate Crime Expansion, Federal Hate Crimes, Hate Crime, Politics News

WASHINGTON — People attacked because of their sexual orientation or gender would receive federal protections under a Senate-approved measure tha...

Read Whole Story

The Ilan Halimi Murder Trial: Moving Beyond Hatred?

Paul LeGendre | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Beyond Hatred, Jewish, Hate Crime, World News

Government authorities have a responsibility to vigorously respond to these shameful and serious crimes.

Read Post

NYC Anti-Gay Violence Rises: Report

Advocate | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Lgbt, Hate Crimes, Anti-Gay Violence, Anti-Gay Violence New York, Violence, Homophobia, New York Gay Pride, New York City Violence, Gay Pride, Hate Crime, New York, New York Lgbt, Lgbt Violence, New York News

Following a gay pride weekend marked by hate-motivated violence, advocates in New York City plan a press conference on Wednesday morning to ...

Read Whole Story

President Obama's FDR Problem

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Crimes, Hate, Limbaugh, Steele, President Obama, Obama, O'Reilly, Fdr, Gingrich, Cheney, Hate Groups, Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Fox, Republican Party, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Republicans, Hannity, Politics News

President Obama is the first president in my memory to have the FDR problem. That problem in a word is hate. The reason is the same.

Read Post

Von Brunn Affadavit: "Obama Was Created By Jews" (FULL TEXT)

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Von Brunn, Von Brunn, Homicide, Von Brunn Complaint, Document, Civil Rights, Criminal Complaint, Legal Documents, Von Brunn Charges, Hate Crime, Holcaust Museum, Politics News

Authorities are charging an 88-year-old white supremacist with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and...

Read Whole Story

Time for New Chuck Norris Jokes

David Weinberger | Posted 06.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jokes, Hate Crimes, Humor, Hate-Crimes-Bill, Hate Crimes Bill, Hate Crime, Chuck Norris, Entertainment News

After reading Chuck Norris' two columns against hate crimes legislation, I think it's time for a new round of Chuck Norris jokes.

Read Post

Getting to the Roots of Hate Crime

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

If we are serious about protecting people from violence and crime simply because of their group identities, we must also take seriously their right to equality in the home, workplace, and school.

Read Post

Faith Community and LGBT Community Come Together

Sara Whitman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taunting, Lesbian Mom, School Leadership, Exceptional Kids, LGBT Families, School Bullying, Hate Crime, Politics News

I went to a funeral today. Of a little boy. 11 years old. He lay in the coffin, in a grown up suit, dead. So little. He killed himself last week because he was taunted, over and over, for being gay.

Read Post

Swastikas Daubed On Holocaust Memorial

AP | Posted 02.03.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust, Genocide, Holocaust, Swastikas Germany, Swastikas Holocaust Memorial, Hate Crime, World News

BERLIN — Berlin police say vandals have daubed swastikas on some of the slabs that make up the German capital's Holocaust memorial. A police st...

Read Whole Story

Racial Incidents and Threats Against Obama Soar: Here Is a Chronicle

Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Kkk, Hate Crime, Barack Obama, Hate, White Power, Secret Service, Assassination, Editor and Publisher, Obama Assassination, Racial Incidents, Obama Racial Incidents, Politics News

Since election day, the number of threats against the president-elect, and racial or violent incidents directed at his supporters, have soared, and the Secret Service is concerned.

Read Post

A New Level of Hate

Sara Whitman | Posted 11.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Homophobia, Elementary School Bus Safety, LGBT Issues, Bullying, Child Safety, Hate Crime, Living News

In Illinois, an elementary school bus driver taunted a ten year-old boy, calling him "gay." He then, at the child's bus stop, encouraged other students to go beat him up.

Read Post

Pro-Immigrant Media Campaigns

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 10.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Polictics, The Truth About Immigrants, Hate Crime, Mexico, Hate Speech, Immigrants, Policy, Pro-Immigrant Media Campaigns, Immigration Debate, Foreign Policy, Media News

Courtesy DuPage Immigrant Solidarity The majority of Americans do not hold extreme anti-immigrant views, but it is difficult for those of us who don'...

Read Post

Hate Crime

HuffPost Social News connects you with friends and the news