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As COVID-19 containment efforts continue worldwide, more and more people are rightfully starting to draw attention to a facet of this era that’s been previously overlooked in mainstream news’ wall-to-wall coverage of the virus. But in a New York Times piece published Monday, that issue—namely the safety fears of Chinese-Americans—takes precedence. “I feel like I’m […]
Jussie Smollett’s legal battle isn’t over yet. The former Empire star’s most recent charges won’t be dropped—and Chicago’s State Attorney, Kim Foxx who first tried the case, called it a “bullshit” decision and wondered why so much credence is being given to what she dismissed as merely at “prank,” Page Six reports. Smollett’s lawyers contended in […]
The New York City Police Department announced it is investigating an unsettling video of what appears to be a coronavirus-related hate crime. The incident reportedly took place Wednesday morning on an MTA train in Brooklyn, where a passenger was filmed spraying an air freshener at an Asian commuter. Cell phone footage shows the suspect telling the victim to move; […]
It has been a long time coming, but the U.S. has finally made lynching a federal hate crime. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) introduced the bill, naming it the Emmett Till Antilynching Act after the 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi 65 years ago, Vice reports. It’s also been 120 years since Congress first considered […]
Jussie Smollett‘s hate crime case has dominated headlines throughout 2019 and taken multiple unexpected turns. Yet, the actor insists that he didn’t lie about what happened. Smollett recently slid into the Shade Room’s comments where he defended himself from a comment that likened the fake story of a Virginia teen being bullied because of her dreadlocks to […]
The Anti-Defamation League has previously warned about the use of the “OK” hand gesture, but now it has officially deemed it as a hate symbol. On Thursday, the ADL added the gesture to its “Hate on Display” database, which includes symbols of racism and anti-Semitism such as swastikas, Ku Klux Klan robes, and burning crosses […]
After being habitually defaced by vandals, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission announced that they will replace the Mississippi’s current Emmett Till memorial with a new, bulletproof sign. The sign that indicates where Till’s body was pulled out of the Tallahatchie River in 1955 has been vandalized on multiple occasions since it was erected in 2007. The sign […]
The Empire cast continues to show their support for Jussie Smollett. The 36-year-old actor is in the midst of a highly publicized criminal scandal, in which he is accused of orchestrating his own hate crime in late January. Though he was ultimately cleared of all 16 charges in the case, his future with Empire remains unclear. Shortly after Smollett […]
A South Carolina man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for his involvement in a murder-for-hire plot against his black neighbor. According to the New York Times, 26-year-old Brandon Cory Lecroy pleaded guilty last fall for trying to pay a KKK member to carry out the murder. Prosecutors claim Lecroy asked a FBI agent posing […]
Holden Matthews, the son of a sheriff’s deputy, has been charged with hate crimes in connection with the burnings of three predominantly black churches in Louisiana. The new charges were revealed Monday, per an Associated Press report. That same day, Matthews pleaded not guilty via a jail livestream. Originally arrested on arson charges, Matthews now faces […]
