The Council on American Islamic Relations’ or CAIR’s Connecticut chapter is calling for a probe into a possible hate crime, involving two female Muslim students at the University of Connecticut. Junior Shazeda Khatun and senior Zena Saleh said a man screamed racial slurs at them, including the N-word, as they walked to their dorm Monday [&hell...
A total of 1,807 communal riot cases were registered in parts of India during 2018 to 2020 in which over 8,000 people were arrested, the Rajya Sabha learned Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the highest number of communal riot cases were registered in Bihar, followed by Maharashtra and Haryana. A […]
Three former Minneapolis police officers were found guilty of failing to render aid as they watched George Floyd get suffocated by former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao, and Thomas Lane were convicted on charges of not assisting Floyd as he died, and of violating his constitutional rights. Floyd’s murder in 2020...
Racial and religious prejudice increased significantly among former president Donald Trump’s supporters during his presidency, according to studies published Monday by the journal Nature Human Behavior. The 13 studies involved more than 10,000 participants. Researchers and social psychologists, Benjamin Ruisch of the University of Kent in the...
Three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in the US state of Georgia were found guilty of federal hate crimes. “Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!” exclaimed Arbery family attorney, Ben Crump, at a news conference after the verdict was handed down. Gregory McMichael, 66, Travis McMichael, 36, and William Bryan, 52, followed and killed Arber...
Pennsylvania firefighters were caught mocking an 8-year-old Black girl killed by police last month. That’s led to some members of the department being placed on administrative suspension. Members of Briarcliffe Fire Company in Delaware County were suspended during a closed-door meeting at the station Thursday night, according to Philadelphia’s...
The White House has released a screening tool to help identify disadvantaged communities plagued by environmental hazards. But the administration won’t include race as a factor in deciding where to allocate resources. Officials told reporters Friday excluding race will make projects less likely to draw legal challenges and will be easier...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany’s Justice Minister Marco Buschmann on Friday acknowledged the country’s failures to address problems of racism and discrimination. “We have not been able to protect our fellow citizens from the murderous hate and madness that has grown in our society,” he said in a statement, marking the second anniversary of the ra...
A video showing police officers breaking up a fight between two teenagers, one Black, one white, at a New Jersey mall has sparked outrage over police response. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday the appearance of the officers’ “racially disparate treatment” is deeply disturbing. One video of the incident reviewed by CNN shows the [&hel...
The hearing of the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice or ICJ is set to begin Monday in the Hague. Members of the persecuted Muslim minority have growing concerns over allowing Burma’s ruling military junta to participate in court proceedings. They believe it would be tantamount to supporting decades of killings and [...
