Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, making it one of the U.S. government’s largest hate crime cases.
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Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that’s still shaping American politics
Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.
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Before Patrick Mahomes vs. Jalen Hurts, there was Doug Williams
Williams became the first Black quarterback to start in a Super Bowl and won MVP of the game for Washington in January 1988.
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The modern NFL didn’t have a Black head coach until 1989. Here’s his story.
Art Shell was hired by the Los Angeles Raiders long after baseball and basketball teams had been led by African Americans. Then he was fired after a winning season.
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NFL owners have a problem hiring coaches: They’re lousy at it
The main reason the NFL fails in its attempts to engineer better diversity is that the owners are generally horrible at hiring anyone.
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How could they? That’s not a question for the head, but the heart
Systemic racism does dehumanizing things to the souls of those caught in its net, including the five Black police officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols.
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Black Memphis police spark dialogue on systemic racism in the U.S.
The Memphis cops charged with murder were Black. What does it matter?
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Attacks on U.S. Jews and gays accelerate as hate speech grows on Twitter
Former employees and online researchers say an increase in physical attacks in the United States tracks with spikes in some categories of hate speech on Twitter, notably antisemitic and anti-gay slurs and rhetoric.
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Police, school officials investigate racist graffiti painted on Waterville elementary school
Peter Hallen, assistant superintendent of Waterville Public Schools, said it is important to find those responsible for the graffiti, but having the schools and Waterville community address the issue is critical to spreading awareness and effecting change.
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Former EMMC employee awarded $3 million, saying racial discrimination led to firing
Attorneys for David Ako-Annan said the damages represented the largest sum awarded for a racial discrimination case in Maine.