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What is going on in San Diego? Incidents at the University of California San Diego campus provide the latest example that America has not entered the post-racial era many claimed was ushered in by President Obama’s election. On February 15, the middle of Black History Month, students held the Compton Cookout party off campus. Invitations, [...]
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Less than a month after President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the FBI has released its latest statistics on hate crimes. The report contains valuable information on the types of hate crimes (33 percent are property damage, 30 percent are physical attacks, and 30 percent involve intimidation), [...]
In April of this year, there was a bit of controversy over a memo from the Department of Homeland Security warning of the increased risk posed by right-wing extremist groups . Driven by the declining condition of the economy and the sense of social change exemplified by the presidency of Barack Obama, the analysts felt [...]
The black gay blogosphere has been on fire with the latest developments in the Dwan Prince case. In 2005, Prince was assaulted by Steven Pomie in a hate crime that left him unconscious and partially paralyzed. Pomie was originally sentenced to 25 years in prison, but the conviction was overturned by an appellate court that [...]
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