hate crimes

Vigils took place across the nation for Oklahoma teenager Nex Benedict, who died the day after a fight in a high school bathroom in which the nonbinary student claimed to be a target of bullying.

Cornell University administrators have dispatched campus police to a Jewish center after threatening statements against Jewish students appeared on a discussion board.

The Anti-Defamation League released a report this week revealing a staggering increase in antisemitic hate crimes, NBC Chicago’s Charlie Wojciechowksi reports.

Jerrald Gallion planned to spend the weekend with his 4-year-old daughter but the devoted father was instead one of three Black people gunned down at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida.

Three people were shot and killed at a store in Jacksonville Saturday in what police are describing as a racially-motivated crime.

While the incident is being investigated as a hate crime, Sue Young, the victim, does not believe the attack was racially motivated, and cautioned against carceral solutions.

Australia’s government plans legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide except for religious, educational and certain other uses.