Posted on · President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, the culmination of more than a century of efforts to designate lynching as a federal hate crime.
Posted on · Patrick Crusius has been charged with capital murder and is being held without bond. Federal prosecutors have said they are also considering hate-crime charges.
Posted on · King and two others dragged James Byrd, Jr. behind a pickup truck for three miles, killing him.
Posted on · The mass shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand are only the latest in a string of attacks the local Muslim community has coped with over the past year.
Posted on · The massacre follows a 60 percent spike in anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. last year.
Posted on · The man is charged with a hate crime and also with use of a fire to commit a federal felony in the January 2017 fire that destroyed an Islamic center in Victoria
Posted on · The incident, which was investigated by the Houston Police Department, occurred in the early morning hours of July 21, 2017.
Posted on · During a court hearing in March on an unrelated charge, prosecutors alleged Perez believed the mosque's worshippers were "terrorists."
Posted on · In recent weeks, there’s been a wave of false bomb threats made to Jewish community centers across the United States,
Posted on · Dena Marks of the Anti-Defamation League talks about what happened in Texas, which saw the largest number of incidents after California and New York.
Posted on · More than 400 hate crimes and related cases of harassment took place across the U.S. in the six days after Election Day. Roughly 10 percent occurred in Texas.
Posted on · A distinction for police is lost on the victim.
Posted on · A brutal murder in East Texas led to the passage of state and federal laws requiring harsh penalties for hate crimes. So why are they so little used?
Posted on · Investigators are still seeking a motive for a fire intentionally set on Christmas day at a storefront mosque in southwest Houston, off Wilcrest.