APNewsBreak: Grand jury meets in hate-crime case
Three white men have pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges in the death of James Craig Anderson, a black, 47-year-old car plant worker who was run over with a pickup truck near a Jackson hotel before dawn on June 26, 2011. Deryl Dedmon, 20, who …
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Crowley man charged with hate crime after attacking officer
Crowley Police have added the charge of a “hate crime” to a Crowley man who was arrested earlier for second degree battery of an off duty Crowley Police officer. The original incident occurred on August 26, 2012. Brett Leverette, 26 of Crowley was …
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Amish Beard-Cutting: An Attack Or A Hate Crime?
Sixteen members of a conservative Amish church group have been charged with hate crimes after forcibly cutting off the beards of members of a breakaway Amish group. In a piece for Bloomberg View, Harvard law professor Noah Feldman argues that while …
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In Israel, a Generation of Hate?
An alleged hate crime against Palestinians in West Jerusalem this week, which left one young man unconscious and in the hospital, underscores a troubling reality: that Israeli teens are more militantly anti-Arab than their parents and increasingly more …
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Appeals court upholds hate crime law in Ark. case
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal appeals panel on Monday upheld the hate crime statute under which a Green Forest man was prosecuted for spinning out a car with five Hispanic men inside, injuring all of them. Frankie Maybee, 21, argued in an appeal …
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Authorities Investigate a Hate Crime
Authorities Investigate a Hate Crime. The Somali community in Rochester targeted again. This time, a Somali woman was threatened in a grocery store parking lot. Police describe it as a very brazen attack. A Somali woman was simply going to pick up her …
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hangman’s noose
No class status in black construction workers' case: 7th Circuit
They accused Walsh of creating a hostile work environment where supervisors used racial epithets and tolerated derogatory graffiti and hangman's nooses that other workers left in rest areas. The company also denied black employees overtime and other …
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Polydeck Screen expanding in SC, creating 32 jobs
It started with allegations of hangman's nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking company warehouse in Chicago Ridge, Ill. Company officials say Polydeck has expanded its Spartanburg operations five times …
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US Slavery Museum bankruptcy case dismissed
The U.S. National Slavery Museum's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has been dismissed and a donor has agreed to pay about $ 250000 in back taxes owed to the city of Fredericksburg. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Douglas O. Tice Jr. granted the museum's motion …
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Marin girl fights slavery with lemonade
While most kids her age have spent their summer burning worms on the sidewalk or making over their Barbie dolls, Vivienne Harr has dedicated hers to helping end child slavery through sales from her lemonade stand. Harr calls the project her “stand …
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Dan Savage Debates NOM President Brian Brown: Video
Slavery. What are the odds that the Bible got something as complicated as human sexuality wrong?” Several students walked out, prompting Savage to note their “pansy-assed” reaction, for which he apologized. A furious Brian Brown, president of the …
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birthers
NFLPA challenges Goodell's bounty case declaration
Bobby Valentine On Own Performance With Red Sox: 'I'm Not Doing A Good Job'. Baseball. Larry Bailey Birther · Larry Bailey 'Birther' Remarks: Navy SEAL Leader Questions Obama's Birthplace · Birthers · more big news pages ». Advertise |; Make HuffPost …
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American seeks again to cancel pilots' contract
Baseball. Larry Bailey Birther · Larry Bailey 'Birther' Remarks: Navy SEAL Leader Questions Obama's Birthplace · Birthers · Don Mattingly Suspended 2 Games 'For Excessive Arguing' During Dodgers-Braves Game (VIDEO). Los Angeles Dodgers · Chocolate …
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Pastor seeks prayers as search for boy continues
Television · Stanley Kubrick Retrospective To Open At LACMA In Conjunction With The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (SLIDESHOW). Arts. Antiobama Navy Seal Birther · Anti-Obama Navy SEAL Leader: I'm A Birther | The Cable · Birthers …
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hangman’s noose
Partial verdict in Pa. beating case favors police
… because it includes a mannequin dangling from a hangman's noose.More >>. Even by Las Vegas standards, it was a shocking billboard: A mannequin dangling on a hangman's noose below a black sign with the ominous words "Dying for Work."More >> …
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AP PHOTOS: Highlights from 2 weeks of London 2012
… because it includes a mannequin dangling from a hangman's noose.More >>. Even by Las Vegas standards, it was a shocking billboard: A mannequin dangling on a hangman's noose below a black sign with the ominous words "Dying for Work."More >> …
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Internet searches cited in Calif. prof arson case
… because it includes a mannequin dangling from a hangman's noose.More >>. Even by Las Vegas standards, it was a shocking billboard: A mannequin dangling on a hangman's noose below a black sign with the ominous words "Dying for Work."More >> …
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Burlesque star Dita Von Teese wins antisemitism case
By Jennifer Lipman, October 19, 2011 A non-Jewish burlesque artist who sued her landlord for making antisemitic comments has won her case. Gossip website TMZ said Dita Von Teese had won a £3200 payout in Los Angeles. The amount was the security deposit …
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Iraqi bus mechanic wins discrimination case
Commissioners said there was clear evidence that colleagues hurled racial slurs at Barash, 53, a former suburban bus system employee, in 2003 around the start of the Iraq war. Barash is Chaldean, a Catholic of Iraqi descent. Ruling that SMART is liable …
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Republican candidates show America is not a post-racial society
By Sean McElroy I was almost in my 20s before I noticed a racial slur being used in a racist context. I had heard homophobic slurs, often maliciously fired toward any of those unfortunate enough to be late in hitting puberty. …
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Racial bias involving Utah tribal member won't go before high court
Benally's sentencing came after a three-year delay, because Benally's conviction was overturned when a judge learned jurors made racially biased comments during deliberations. Benally was convicted in October 2007 of punching a Bureau of Indian Affairs …
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ACLU of Illinois: Diocese of Peoria Withdraws From Foster Care Case
CHICAGO, Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Diocese of Peoria has announced that it is abandoning litigation and transferring all of its foster care and adoption operations, including children, case workers, supervisors and clinical services, …
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ACLU: Sheriff Lee Baca must resign over County Jail report
Leaders for the ACLU of Southern California said the climate of violence has continued for years under Baca and only solution was for the sheriff, whose post is elective, to step down. Eliasberg on Wednesday said the information in the report was not …
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Clarence's Questions, Part 1: The Case Of The Burning Cross
But the cross-burning law removed this requirement by declaring the act itself sufficient evidence of a defendant's intent to intimidate. Black asserted that this part of the law rendered the ban a violation of free expression under the First Amendment …
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Four to stand trial in cross-burning case
Three men and one woman have been ordered to stand trial on charges they burned an 11-foot cross outside the San Luis Obispo home of a black teen. A San Luis Obispo County judge ruled Monday that there was enough evidence for Jeremiah Hernandez, 32; …
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