University of Delaware officials said Wednesday morning that the objects found hanging from a tree on campus were not nooses, but lanterns. The university said there was no evidence of a hate crime, as first suspected.
Jon Stewart dispensed with his classic comical opening monologue and spoke at length about the Charleston, South Carolina, shooting. See the video here.
The suspect wanted for a deadly shooting that ended in the death of a North Carolina community college employee was arrested Tuesday in Florida, police said.
Three young white men were sentenced to federal prison on Tuesday for conspiring to attack black people and killing a 47-year-old car plant worker in Jackson, Mississippi in 2011. The three culprits, who are all from Brandon, Mississippi, admitted that they planned to hunt and attack black people on the night that they beat, ran over and killed James Craig Anderson.
On Monday dozens of demonstrators protested in Clayton, Missouri where a grand jury is set to decide whether to indict a white police officer Darren Wilson for killing unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri back in August.
While the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon put many Muslim Americans unjustly in an unfavorable spotlight among Islamophobes and xenophobes, President Barrack Obama's presidency hasn't done much better to quell stereotypical beliefs and fears in some of America's rural communities.
Couple victims of hate crime after attack in Greenwich Village. After a series of anti-gay attacks in New York City, gay people still cannot feel safe in one of the most diverse cities in the world.
By 2043, the ethno-racial landscape of America will completely change, and whites will dwindle to the minority in the US, which explains a level of discontent from other groups and the present white majority. The country's demographic changes show an evidential growth of Latinos, and that has resulted in the growth of anti-Latino hate crimes.
Police are investigating a possible hate crime after openly gay journalist Randy Gener was attacked and badly beaten while walking home from a party on January 17 in Manhattan.
Late May of this year, 22-year-old Victor Diego, a gay, transgender man who goes by the name of Vivian Diego and works as a waitress at Eva Longoria's Hollywood Boulevard restaurant, Besos, was faced with the unthinkable. He left work at 2:30 a.m. after working a lengthy shift. As he made his way home, he was accosted by four men, and beaten until he lost consciousness.
