WATCH: Waffle House Customers Assaulted In Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime
Ohio authorities are continuing to investigate an alleged hate crime at a Columbus-based Waffle House restaurant which left two patrons injured. A...
Ohio authorities are continuing to investigate an alleged hate crime at a Columbus-based Waffle House restaurant which left two patrons injured. A...
Mike Lux | Posted 05.11.2012
Romney went from being the big bully in his high school, to being the cavalier dad who made the family dog ride on top of the car even when it was making him sick, to being the "vulture capitalist" at Bain Capital.
Reuters | Posted 05.11.2012
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, May 10 (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday recommended a former Rutgers University student be sentenced to...
AP | By EVA VERGARA | Posted 05.10.2012
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's congress passed a hate-crimes law Wednesday night, months after a group of alleged neo-Nazis were arrested in the brutal mu...
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.06.2012
The growth in hate groups and the use of their divisive and negative language in the mainstream political and media arena is cause for national alarm.
Posted 05.02.2012
A black transgender Minneapolis woman pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of a local man, but her supporters maintain s...
Jacques Berlinerblau | Posted 04.26.2012
What is it like for a Muslim-American woman to wear a hijab in public? Does this particular religious attire render its wearers vulnerable to verbal and physical violence?
Posted 04.26.2012
An openly gay Illinois State University student had to have his jaw wired shut after allegedly being beaten by a group of men who shouted homophobic s...
Posted 04.25.2012
A Texas-based lesbian claims she was assaulted outside of a local bar, after her attackers threatened, "If you’re going to dress like a man, you bet...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 04.20.2012
When college student Enrique Cervantes wrote an essay about seeing two people having sex in a car in front of his house, he never expected that it mig...
Tiphani N. Montgomery | Posted 04.16.2012
Our children are dying. They aren't graduating from high school or college, they're being buried six feet under. They aren't building families, they...
AP | KEN MILLER | Posted 04.14.2012
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Two men accused of going on a shooting spree that terrorized Tulsa's predominantly black north side face murder and hate crime charge...
Posted 04.12.2012
A U.S. federal grand jury has issued the first-ever indictment to charge a violation of the sexual orientation section of the federal hate crimes law....
Gabe Zichermann | Posted 04.10.2012
The shooting of Trayvon Martin is a national tragedy that has left many Americans surprised and dismayed. For students of gay rights in the United States, the emerging facts of the case, and particularly how police appear to have handled it, are eerily familiar.
Russell Simmons | Posted 04.09.2012
Let us take notice, there are some people in our country who are fighting with every ounce of energy that they have to promote hate, racism and bigotry. I want to warn them now, that anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.
Emily Spencer | Posted 04.09.2012
Administrators, faculty, and community members spoke first -- driving home the point that hate crimes would not be tolerated in "our house", referring to Ohio State, and beseeching the students to organize themselves and to appeal to the university to do something about it.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 04.08.2012
The apparently random racially motivated shootings have terrorized Tulsa's African-American community. One of the two white men arrested for shooting three African-Americans to death and injuring two others appears to have had a racist posting on his Facebook pages.
AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 04.06.2012
EL CAJON, Calif. — Police investigating the beating death of an Iraqi-American mother of five sought clues at the troubled family's home to try ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.05.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Black Caucus unveiled a resolution on Wednesday that honors the life of Trayvon Martin and calls for the repeal of "St...
Kami Chavis Simmons | Posted 04.02.2012
The Martin and Anderson cases demonstrate the vital role the federal government can play in investigations when there are questions surrounding the local or state government's ability or willingness to initiate a prosecution.
Pamay Bassey | Posted 04.01.2012
I believe that there is a fiercely urgent need for us to take the time to learn about people who look differently than we do, live differently than we might, worship differently than what is familiar to us. Because violence is often rooted in ignorance and fear.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.29.2012
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday praised Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) for wearing a hoodie on the House floor in pr...
AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 03.29.2012
WASHINGTON -- At first, the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager at the hands of a white neighborhood watch volunteer was playing out like many...
Reuters | Posted 03.29.2012
By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND, March 28 (Reuters) - A man wearing Ku Klux Klan clothing was arrested in the small community of Mount Victory...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.02.2012
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) was thrown off the House floor Wednesday after wearing a hoodie and sunglasses in protest of the Trayvon Martin...
Posted 05.24.2012