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Residents in a Suburban Georgia town were in for a surprise when they recently found, not the daily paper, but a flyer recruiting for the Ku Klux Klan in their yard. The flyers were left in plastic bags in a Newnan subdivision. It featured a drawing of a Klan member in a hood and read, “Neighborhood...
Ending a 16-year court battle, religious groups, many of them virulently anti-gay and part of a “church planting” movement to evangelize students, were finally stopped from using New York City public schools for regular worship services on February 12. But state and city officials — including pro-gay politicians such as Public Advocate Bill de...
Tensions are growing between Bronx residents and the NYPD after the fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham Thursday. “I never wanted him to go out like this,” Leona Virgo, Graham‘s 22-year-old sister told fellow demonstrators outside the 47th precinct Monday night, according to The New York Times. “He was only 18 years old,” adding, “This is not...
Three teens have been charged with a hate crime after attacking an African-American teen and putting a noose around his neck for his alleged relationship with a white girl. The accusers, who are all white, range from age 16 to 18. According to the Chicago Tribune, on Dec. 23, the victim, 17, went to...
Are threatening pictures tantamount to making a threat? West Palm Beach officials believe so. They want the person who put pictures of people hanging from poles and trees with ropes around their necks on the truck of a city employee prosecuted for committing a hate crime. The pictures, which also depicted beatings, were placed...
A city parks worker was arrested Thursday and charged with a hate crime for allegedly hanging a black doll by a noose in the Bronx headquarters of the Parks Department. Fariz Ahmemulic, 28, faces charges of aggravated harassment as a hate crime for the Dec. 20 incident, in which a black baby doll was...
