Prosecutors say the genial persona of Nathan Allen belied anti-Semitic and anti-Black sentiments he expressed privately in a notebook, found after he gunned down a Black retired state trooper and a Black Air Force veteran.
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Family, friends mourn 2 victims of potential hate crime outside Boston
Prosecutors say Nathan Allen drew swastikas and wrote messages about whites being superior in the weeks leading up to the shootings, which took the lives of a retired state trooper and an Air Force veteran, both Black.
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What is critical race theory, and why do Republicans want to ban it in schools?
The academic framework has become a flashpoint as conservative politicians use the term as a catch-all phrase for nearly any examination of systemic racism in the present.
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Tacoma police officers face charges in restraint death of Black man
The death in March 2020 made Manuel Ellis’ name synonymous with pleas for justice at protests in the Pacific Northwest.
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Artists and activists gather in Portland to mark anniversary of George Floyd’s death
The event was held on Congress Street to memorialize Floyd, the Black man whose murder by a white Minneapolis police officer touched off a year of racial reckoning.
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Congress passes bill to fight hate crimes against Asian Americans
President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bipartisan denunciation of the spate of brutal attacks that have proliferated during coronavirus pandemic.
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Prosecutor plans to seek death penalty in Atlanta spa shootings
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also filed notice that she intends to seek hate crime charges and the death penalty against Robert Aaron Long, who is white.
Posted inNation / World, New England
Connecticut racial equity meeting interrupted with racist slurs, images
Police are trying to find out who interrupted a video conference meeting of a racial equity task force with racist epithets and images of enslaved people.
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Prosecutor who implied boy was armed when shot put on leave
A veteran prosecutor was placed on leave days after he implied in court that 13-year-old Adam Toledo was holding a handgun the instant he was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer
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Maine lawmaker criticized for racist email
Rep. Michael Lemelin, R-Chelsea, referred to COVID-19 as the ‘China virus’ in an email to an Asian-American resident, and downplayed the disease’s seriousness.