Hate Crimes

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Ahmaud Arbery theGrio.com
May 7, 2020
Supporters of Ahmaud Arbery, who was fatally shot, are organizing a multi-mile run to raise awareness about his murder this…
November 13, 2019
Hate-based homicides jumped year-over-year in 2018 and there was an overall increase in hate crimes according to new FBI crime…
In this Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, burn victim Anthony Gooden gets help with his injured hand during a break in the trial for Martin Blackwell in Atlanta. Blackwell, who was convicted of throwing scalding water on a Gooden and his boyfriend while they slept, told one of them to “get out of my house with all that gay,” a victim testified, but he couldn’t be charged with a hate crime because the state has no such law. Georgia is one of only four states - along with South Carolina, Wyoming and Arkansas - without an official hate crimes law. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
June 3, 2019
A Georgia man convicted of throwing scalding water on a sleeping same-sex couple told one of them to "get out…
Queen Latifah Eboni Nichols thegrio.com
March 5, 2019
[griojw id=”THFkIaHi” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   Queen Latifah vows to stand by Jussie Smollett until she sees “definitive proof” that he orchestrated a racist
Jussie Smollett thegrio
January 29, 2019
The Congresswoman is a friend of Jussie Smollett and called the attack "very upsetting." Meanwhile Chicago police are investigating
December 4, 2018
[griojw id=”Idj7Zhil” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”] Hate crimes in America continue to be an ongoing issue. People have been attacked due to their
FBI thegrio.com AP
November 14, 2018
Hate crimes across the United States spiked 17 percent in 2017 — marking a rise for the third straight year.
Timothy Trybus hurls slurs at woman wearing Puerto Rico flag shirt thegrio.com
July 13, 2018
The drunken Chicago man who harassed a woman for wearing a Puerto Rico flag on her shirt has now been
June 29, 2017
According to a new federal report released on Thursday, the majority of hate crimes in the United States go unreported.
November 18, 2015
This week, the FBI arrested three white men who were planning on specifically bombing black churches...
July 2, 2015
Dylann Roof’s delusion that black people systematically “rape [white] women” and are “taking over [the] country” is a racist narrative
April 15, 2014
OPINION - It should come as no surprise that radical right-wing and white supremacist hate groups increased with the election…
September 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Leaders from local branches of the Ku Klux Klan and NAACP met in Casper, Wyoming on Saturday…
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - An African-American student at the University of Texas at Austin says he was hit with a bleach-filled…
May 30, 2013
OPINION - To a more serious point, Hill’s apparent intolerance becomes even more alarming viewed against the backdrop of recent…
May 20, 2013
NBC New York - Gay activists and supporters shaken by a series of violent attacks, including a fatal shooting in…
March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in…
March 5, 2013
TODAY - Ohio’s famed Oberlin College suspended classes on Monday after a person was spotted on campus wearing what appeared…
December 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The FBI released its yearly report on hate crimes last week and it showed a slight decrease…
September 25, 2012
GRAND ISLE, LA - A 29-year-old woman who was cursed at, called the n-word and spat on by a Louisiana…