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Update: students charged with hate crime expelled from San Jose State University
San Jose State University has expelled three students accused of bullying and tormenting their black roommate. A fourth student has been placed on probation for the rest of his college career if he returns.
FBI Director: ‘we need better hate crime tracking’
FBI director James Comey thinks that state and local law enforcement need to do a better job of tracking and reporting hate crimes so that the public can “fully understand what is happening in our communities, and how to stop it.”
Update: charges brought against 5 Hasidic men who beat black gay fashion student
In December, we reported that Taj Patterson, a black, gay New York fashion student, was attacked by five Hasidic men while walking home from a night out. The men have since been charged in connection to the incident.
Report: White Nationalist website linked to nearly 100 hate crimes
According to a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center, people charged with the murders of nearly 100 people are all linked to a single far right white nationalist website. Stormfront.org says it promotes values of “the embattled white minority.” Users include Anders Behring Breivik, who in 2011, killed 77 people in a […]
Report: Florida charges more kids as adults than any other state, black youth disproportionately affected
According to a new report, Florida charges juveniles as adults more that any other state. The report, released by Human Rights Watch reveals that more than 12,000 children have been moved from the juvenile to adult court system in the past five years.
Cop who fatally beat man not fired for crime, collecting pension
The family of a North Chicago man who was beat to death by a policeman was told the officer was fired for the incident. But that officer was actually let go for other reasons –like living outside of the city’s limits.
Father dies while defending daughter during hate crime
A Chicago man died while defending his 15-year-old daughter from an alleged hate crime Wednesday. Each day, 59-year-old Michael Tingling would walk his daughter Masharah to school and be waiting for her to finish up when classes were over. When a man hurled racial epithets at them, Tingling pulled his daughter behind […]
Report: Florida has never executed a white person for killing a black person
According to a report released by the ACLU, Florida has never executed a white person for killing a black person since allowing the death penalty in 1976. 84 Floridians have been executed since 1976.
New York City sees decline in crime, number of stop-and-frisks executions
Both serious crime and the stop-and-frisks practice are on the decline in New York City. Some former police officials hailed the practice as necessary to maintain order in the city, but new information shows the opposite.
Former Black Panther Marshall “Eddie” Conway released after serving 44 years in prison
A former leader of the Black Panther party has been released after serving 44 years behind bars. Marshall “Eddie” Conway, 67, was freed Tuesday after challenging his conviction for a shooting that killed Officer Donald Sager and injured another in 1970.
Offensive or Not? T-Shirt with Racial Slur says ‘Gay is the New Black Unless You’re Actually Black’
I was scrolling through my feed on Facebook when I came across a picture of a T- Shirt that said “Gay is the new Black, unless your ACTUALLY Black because you’re still just a N***er”.” Honestly, I was taken back by the harsh quote that made me think about two ongoing issues that we as humans […]
What Are We Willing to Do to Save Our Black Boys?
Erasto Brown speaking at 1Hood Media Academy event, “Under Attack: How the Media Misrepresents People of Color” httpv://youtu.be/mmQIXI3PtAw The Black community mourned yesterday as we remembered what would have been the 19th birthday of Trayvon Martin. It seemed even more painful with the news of his murderer being involved in a ridiculous boxing match for […]