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Vigils held nationwide for nonbinary Oklahoma teenager who died following school bathroom fight
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.
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Online threats stoke fear among Jewish students at Cornell University
Threatening statements about Jews on an internet discussion board have unnerved students at Cornell University and prompted officials to send police to guard a Jewish center and kosher dining hall. The menacing, anonymous messages, posted over the weekend in an online forum about fraternities and sororities, came amid a torrent of antisemitic and anti-Muslim rhetoric that has flowed on social…
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Cornell University investigating violent, antisemitic threats from online posts
Cornell University and New York State Police are investigating after antisemitic threats were posting to online messaging boards over the weekend.
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Cornell University sends officers to Jewish center after violent, antisemitic messages posted online
Cornell University administrators have dispatched campus police to a Jewish center after threatening statements against Jewish students appeared on a discussion board.
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Jacksonville shooting victim planned to spend Saturday with his daughter. He was killed before he could.
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.
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3 killed in racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville
Three people were shot and killed at a store in Jacksonville Saturday in what police are describing as a racially-motivated crime.
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Asian American woman attacked on NYC subway says she doesn't think it was a hate 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.
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Charges, but no hate crimes, filed against man accused of attacking Muslim lawmaker
The case of Andrey Desmond, 30, went before a judge in Hartford Superior Court, where supporters of state Rep. Maryam Khan, including local imams, also gathered. “It continues to be a mystery to me why the state isn’t bringing bias crimes in this type of incident,” said Farhan Memon, chairman of the Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations….
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Australia plans legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols, officials say
Australia’s government plans legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide except for religious, educational and certain other uses.
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Couple Climbing Into Uber Beaten, Berated in Racist Attack in NYC's Koreatown
A couple was left shaken and injured after a stranger ran up and began an onslaught of anti-Asian racist comments and physical attacks as the victims were trying to get inside their Uber last month. Police say the attack happened around 1:30 a.m. in Manhattan’s Koreatown, at late-night Korean barbecue restaurant Wonjo, off West 32nd Street. The man responsible...
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NYC Man Sentenced for Violent Unprovoked Anti-Gay Attack at Bodega
A man will spend years behind bars in connection with a violent anti-gay attack against two men at a Brooklyn bodega in 2021, prosecutors said. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Christopher Clemente, 38, and of Bedford-Stuyvesant, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision after he pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder as a…
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New FBI Hate Crimes Report Undercounts Bigotry-Based Attacks on Racial Minorities and LGBTQ People
The FBI on Monday released a hate crimes report for 2021 that it admits is incomplete and which, critics say, vastly undercounts bigotry-based attacks on Blacks, Jews, Asians and members of the LGBTQ community.
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NYC Holds Summit Following Rise in Antisemitic Hate Crimes
As antisemitic crimes continue to rise in New York City and across the country, authorities are discussing how to address and prevent these crimes by holding a summit in Manhattan on this very topic. The message at Monday’s summit was simple: to turn words into action as top community leaders vow to improve security in Jewish communities. Monday’s get-together...
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NYC Holds High-Level Summit Following Rise in Antisemitic Hate Crimes
Gus Rosendale reports.