Tag: Hate Crimes
Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education...
Jonathan Feingold, Boston University
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ disdain for “woke ideology” is on full display.
Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it’s not a...
Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College
Over the past year, attacks on Asian Americans have increased more than 150% over the...
Many hate crimes never make it into the FBI’s database
Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University
The FBI’s latest numbers showed a 17 percent increase in reported hate crimes in 2017.
But what does this actually say about...
Out of Matthew Shepard’s tragic murder, a commitment to punishing hate...
Lara Schwartz, American University School of Public Affairs
On an October night in 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, was...
Charlottesville attack shows homegrown terror on the right is on the...
Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a man named James Alex Fields Jr. used his Dodge Challenger as...
Explaining the rise in hate crimes against Muslims in the US
Brian Levin, California State University San Bernardino
Hate crimes against Muslims have been on the rise. The murder of two samaritans for aiding two young...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
