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#racism-and-hate-crimes

On 29 November 1781, Capt Luke Collingwood faced a decision. He was in command of a ship called the Zong, which departed Accra with 442 Africans to be sold into slavery. However, the crew of the Zong kept getting lost on the way to Jamaica. Now their overcrowded cargo was ridden with disease and dehydration.

Whoever is the target of a particular sticky type of stereotype, particularly a fear-inducing one, you'll see that particular group spike, says hate crime expert Brian Levin. Overall hate-crime incidents fell 11% in 2025 from the previous year, but anti-Latino hate crimes rose 18% to a record 1,014 incidents.

Jakhi McCray turned himself in to police custody following the blaze on DeKalb Avenue between Wilson and Central Avenues in Bushwick and was charged with a federal arson count.

Developers promise "community investments," downtown revitalization, and a new "AI Center." What they don't say is that this development comes tethered to a massive resource-intensive data center that will cost billions, create pollution, and concentrate profits for the corporations and CEOs at the top-not the surrounding communities. This is not innovation, it's exploitation.

A chief tenet of liberation is the freedom to define oneself while being accorded the rights and privileges established and guaranteed under law and social standing.

Drawing from years in public defense and her work co-founding Partners for Justice, she explains why the criminal legal system often punishes instability rather than crime - and how policy choices, not individual morality, frequently determine who enters the system.

Yet while "Abolish ICE" serves as a unifying chant in the streets, Democrats are once again seeking to temper and co-opt people's demands into a narrow version of reform. The demands outlined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could not be more toothless: requiring ICE agents to unmask, wear body cameras, and to follow a code of conduct modeled on other law enforcement agencies.

Federal agents have shot and killed another person in Minneapolis The deceased, a US citizen, has been identified as an ICU nurse Minnesota Governor Tim Walz condemned the 'horrific shooting' and said the federal government cannot be 'trusted to lead' probe DHS said the man was armed during his struggle with the officers, but

On March 16, 1965, a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Viola Liuzzo got into a late-model Oldsmobile and drove eight hundred miles from her home in Detroit, Michigan, to Selma, Alabama. Days earlier, following the Bloody Sunday protests, where voting-rights demonstrators had been tear-gassed and beaten, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had issued an appeal to people of conscience across the country to come to Alabama and participate in what had already become one of the most consequential theatres in the movement for equality.

The deceased has been identified as an ICU nurse Minnesota Governor Tim Walz condemned the 'horrific shooting' and said the federal government cannot be 'trusted to lead' probe DHS said the man was armed during his struggle with the officers, but it is not clear in videos if the man is holding his weapon. Man was lawful gun owner. Trump accused Minnesota and Minneapolis leaders of 'inciting insurrection' The shooting comes amid ongoing protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) anti-migrant operations