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Orthodox Jewish men carry Moshe Deutsch's casket outside a Brooklyn synagogue earlier this month. Deutsch was killed in a shooting inside a Jersey City, N.J., kosher food market.

New York To Increase Police Presence After Anti-Semitic Attacks

2:52pm December 27, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

It's "open season on Jews," one New York City council member said in the wake of violence in Brooklyn this week. The attacks come as Jews around the world celebrate Hanukkah.

NC Man Convicted Of Death Threat Against Muslim Candidate

1:11pm December 09, 2019

by Associated Press

A man wearing a Stronger Than Hate yarmulke stands outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the site of a shooting that killed 11 worshippers in 2018. Anti-Semitic homicides in the U.S. reached their highest level ever as a result of the shooting

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FBI Reports Dip In Hate Crimes, But Rise In Violence

5:24pm November 12, 2019

by Rachel Treisman

The FBI released its annual tally of hate crimes on Tuesday. Attacks on individuals surged to a 16-year high in 2018 and hate-crime-related homicides rose from 15 to 24.

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Authorities Didn't Have Enough To Pursue Hate Charges In Slaying

9:54am June 13, 2019

by Associated Press

An attorney who has worked with the families of three Muslim students gunned down in February 2015 says federal authorities decided they did not have a strong enough case to pursue hate-crime charg

The death of a young black girl in Harris County, Texas, and the presumed identity of the shooter, reveals a lot about the current landscape of racial violence in the United States.

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What A Case Of Mistaken Identity Tells Us About Race In America

2:12pm January 10, 2019

Reports that a white shooter killed a 7-year-old black girl led to a national outcry, but in the days since, deputies have charged two black men. Gene Demby spoke about what this incident reveals.

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Gregory Alan Bush, who was indicted on hate crimes and firearm charges by a federal grand jury on Thursday.

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Kentucky Kroger Shooting Suspect Charged With Federal Hate Crimes

11:41pm November 15, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

The grand jury indictment alleges Gregory Bush shot and killed two African-Americans "because of their race and color." The Justice Department has not decided if it will seek the death penalty.

Officials are treating Robert Bowers' attack on the Tree of Life Congregation as a hate crime.

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Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Victims Identified

1:01pm October 28, 2018

by Shannon Van Sant

Victims range in age from 54 to 97. Robert Bowers , 46, has been charged with 29 separate federal crimes for his attack on the Tree of Life synagogue.

James Alex Fields Jr. stands on the sidewalk ahead of a rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. Later that day he is accused on ramming his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer. On Wednesday he was charged with federal hat

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Federal Hate Crime Charges For Driver At Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally

5:31pm June 27, 2018

by Amy Held

Prosecutors say James A. Fields Jr. targeted counterprotesters for their race, color, religion and national origin when he plowed his car into them last year, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

U.S. artist Ryan Mendoza poses for a photo next to the former house of Afro-American human rights figure Rosa Parks on Mendoza's property on April 6, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Mendoza bought the house, which was slated for demolition in Detroit, took it ap

This Week In Race: A House That Flew Over The Ocean And A Man Who Didn't Get To Fly

5:22am April 14, 2017

You could say it's been a pretty turbulent week on the race beat.

Sikh Man Shot Outside His Seattle Home, Told To 'Go Back To Your Own Country'

11:18am March 05, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The victim, who is recovering from his wounds, says a masked man accosted and shot him in his driveway Friday. The attack is the second in two weeks that has drawn a response from an Indian minister.