News From A Colorful Perspective
Graham Williamson, 38, was sentenced to three years in prison this past Tuesday after he burned a cross next to the home of a Black boy in Mississippi, according to a Newsweek. The cross-burning, which occurred in October 2017, was supposed to frighten residents of the predominantly Black neighborhood named…
Brandon Lecroy of Greenwood, S.C., was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to hiring someone to murder his Black neighbor. U.S. Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, who handed Lecroy his sentence, qualified the offense as a federal hate crime. Ten years is the maximum sentence for the…
Gregory Bush, the racist murderer of two Black shoppers at a Kentucky Kroger store last month, was indicted Thursday on federal hate crime charges. Bush, 51, was charged with six counts, including two counts of a hate crime, resulting in death, one count of a hate crime with attempt to…
Samuel Corbett, 37, chased a Black teenage girl while screaming: “Bunch of, you know, N-word, racial slurs, all you guys should die, if I had a switchblade on me I’d kill you right now,” according to witnesses in the Beaverton, Ore., incident. Corbett grabbed the girl’s backpack and tried to…
The number of hate groups in the United States reached near-historic highs in 2016, rising for the second straight year, with the amount of anti-Muslim hate groups tripling from 2015, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) annual Year in Hate report released Wednesday. Much of the increased hate,…
The allegations of racism against U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions are a result of the Democrats’ “war on whites,” according to Alabama’s Republican Rep. Mo Brooks. “It’s really about political power and racial division and what I refer to, on occasion, as the ‘war on whites,’” Brooks said on “The Morning…
In a letter to the president-elect, officers said the campaign rhetoric had driven the spike in hate incidents. By Frank Kineavy A group of Muslim police officers in New York City have called for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as the number of hate crime incidents in the city…
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch In her final weeks in office as U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch is still determined to seek justice for Americans. Sheannounced in a video statement on Friday that she is directing the Department of Justice to investigate if the recent rise in hate crimes is…
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a report on Friday revealing that it has collected 701 incidents of hate in the week directly following the election, from November 9 to November 16. Also on Friday, the FBI released its annual hate crimes report, revealing that 5,818 single-bias incidents occurred…
In light of the recent surge in hate crimes across the country, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is urging law enforcement to identify and prosecute those that occur. Schneiderman held a meeting with civil rights leaders Thursday to discuss the sharp increase in hate crimes, which the Southern Poverty…
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