hate crime

A man was charged with killing two Muslim men and is suspected of killing two others in Albuquerque, N.M. The killings sparked fear in Muslim communities nationwide.

Arbery's killing on Feb. 23, 2020, became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed Black people.

The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in a racist mass shooting was arraigned Monday on federal hate crime charges that could be punishable by the death penalty.

The white gunman has been held without bail since his arrest after the May 14 shooting that killed 10 Black people and injured three others.

Leaders in the civil rights community are pushing the department and other cabinet agencies to take more aggressive action.

The family of the teen has filed a lawsuit against a 23-year-old woman and the hotel, alleging racial profiling.

The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act designates lynching as a federal hate crime and sets prison terms of up to 30 years for those convicted.

This year's anniversary of Arbery's death comes one day after his three convicted killers, who are white, were found guilty of targeting Arbery because of his race in a federal hate crimes trial.

A jury in Brunswick, Ga., found defendants Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan guilty of hate crimes in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.

Prosecutors relied heavily on racist evidence from cell phones and testimony from acquaintances, but the defense called only one witness.

Eight of the jurors are white, three are Black and one is Hispanic. They will hear the hate crimes case against Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William Bryan, which examines if race was a factor.

The legislation, which had overwhelming support in the House and Senate, aims to make reporting hate crimes easier and puts resources into monitoring and preventing those crimes.