Buffalo shooting suspect says his motive was to prevent 'eliminating the white race'
Prosecutors release court documents in suspect Payton Gendron's first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges.
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Woman pleads guilty to hate crime for falsely accusing Black teen of taking her phone
The family of the teen has filed a lawsuit against a 23-year-old woman and the hotel, alleging racial profiling.
Lynching is now a federal hate crime after a century of blocked efforts
President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, the culmination of more than a century of efforts to designate lynching as a federal hate crime.
Jussie Smollett returns to court for sentencing for lying about an attack on him
The former Empire actor was convicted on five felony counts of lying to police, but he has maintained that he did not stage the 2019 attack in which he claimed to be the victim.
After more than a century of trying, Congress passes an anti-lynching bill
Passage of the legislation to make lynching a federal crime is a major milestone after more than 200 attempts to pass such legislation failed over the course of a century.
WSSU was prepared when bomb threat came, spokeswoman says
Winston-Salem State University joined a growing list of historically Black colleges and universities that have recently received a bomb threat, but a university spokeswoman says they were prepared.
Greg McMichael reverses plan to plead guilty to a hate crime in Ahmaud Arbery's death
McMichael and his son Travis had agreed to plead guilty in return for serving time in a federal prison instead of a state one in a deal rejected by a judge after Arbery's parents objected to it.
FBI Seeks To Raise Hate Crime Awareness In North Carolina
The Charlotte division of the FBI is launching a statewide campaign to raise awareness about federal hate crimes, and is encouraging people to report these offenses to authorities.
An MLK Jr. Statue Was Vandalized With Graffiti, Prompting A Hate Crime Investigation
A statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a park in Southern California was vandalized with racist images. Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia called the graffiti "horrific."
San Francisco Man Who Threatened Asian Woman In Bakery Arrested For Hate Crime
The victim first called police on Sunday when she says Darrell Hunter entered the store threatening to shoot Chinese people. Officials arrested him days later when he returned to menace her.