<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Hate Crimes: News &amp; Videos about Hate Crimes - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Hate_Crimes</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Hate Crimes from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:57:53 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Hate Crimes: News &amp; Videos about Hate Crimes - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Hate_Crimes</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Hate Crimes from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>FBI cites thousands of hate crimes in '08</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/23/hate.crimes.fbi.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/23/hate.crimes.fbi.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More than 9,000 hate crime offenses -- more than half of them motivated by racial bias -- were reported last year, the FBI announced Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Demonstrators demand justice in Puerto Rico gay teen's slaying</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/19/puerto.rico.gay.slaying/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/19/puerto.rico.gay.slaying/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Several hundred gay activists rallied Thursday afternoon in Puerto Rico to demand a robust prosecution in the brutal slaying of a gay teenager nearly a week ago.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Suspect charged with murder in slaying of gay teen in Puerto Rico</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/18/puerto.rico.gay.teen.slain/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/18/puerto.rico.gay.teen.slain/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The suspect in the brutal slaying of a gay teenager in Puerto Rico was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and four other counts, the prosecutor in the case told CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Suspect arrested in brutal slaying of gay man in Puerto Rico</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/17/puerto.rico.hate.crime/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/17/puerto.rico.hate.crime/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suspect has been arrested in the slaying of a 19-year-old Puerto Rican man found Friday decapitated, dismembered and partially burned, police said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama signs hate crimes bill into law</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama on Wednesday signed a law that makes it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two years after son's death, mother finds solace in hate crimes bill</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/28/hate.crime.bill.mother/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/28/hate.crime.bill.mother/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For Elke Kennedy, the significance of Wednesday's hate crimes legislation can be traced to a single punch outside a bar on a drunken night two years ago.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hate crimes bill goes to Obama for signature</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/22/hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/22/hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Senate passed groundbreaking legislation Thursday that would make it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police: New York man beaten for being gay</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/12/new.york.beating.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/12/new.york.beating.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A man brutally beaten in New York City was targeted because he is openly gay, the New York Police Department said Monday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feds to investigate claims of police discrimination</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/10/06/new.york.latino.discrimination/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/10/06/new.york.latino.discrimination/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Justice Department and federal prosecutors will investigate allegations of discrimination against Latinos by police in Suffolk County, New York, officials said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI: Beating at Cracker Barrel may be hate crime</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/16/cracker.barrel.beating/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/16/cracker.barrel.beating/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The FBI is investigating as a possible hate crime an incident in which a woman was beaten to the ground in front of her child at the entrance to a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Morrow, Georgia, south of Atlanta.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Father wants son's beating treated as a hate crime</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/07/new.york.beating/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/07/new.york.beating/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Brian Milligan Sr. believes his son's race triggered a brutal attack on the streets of Buffalo, New York.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kennedy was our 'greatest champion,' says gay activist</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/27/kennedy.gay.rights/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/27/kennedy.gay.rights/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For writer John Aravosis, Edward "Ted" Kennedy's early support for gay rights was very important to a community that has faced a history steeped in discrimination.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Beating the homeless is cruel, not cool</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/12/levin.homeless.hate/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/12/levin.homeless.hate/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Over the last two calendar years, more Americans in the United States were killed in a little-noticed spate of unprovoked attacks than were killed by terrorists, in large commercial jet crashes or in racial hate crimes.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Why hate crimes are different</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/29/levin.hate.law/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/29/levin.hate.law/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>America needs a coordinated and multifaceted response to combat the continuing scourge of violent hate crime like the crime committed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Holder pushes for hate-crimes law; GOP unpersuaded</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/25/holder.hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/25/holder.hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Attorney General Eric Holder stepped up his call for the passage of federal hate crimes legislation Thursday, arguing that the federal government needs to take a stronger stand against criminal activity fueled by bias and bigotry.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Holder again urges stronger hate-crime legislation</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/16/holder.civil.rights/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/16/holder.civil.rights/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Citing three recent fatal shootings fueled by hatred and simmering anger, Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday a stepped-up effort to enforce civil rights protections, and he renewed his call for expanding hate-crimes laws.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Hate crimes terrorize all of us</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/11/navarrette.hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/11/navarrette.hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>To think there are some people who still argue that the law shouldn't categorize some offenses as hate crimes and allow for enhanced criminal penalties.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Hate groups threatened by diversity</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/11/levin.hate/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/11/levin.hate/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Last Saturday, a young African-American president used eloquent prose to challenge the world to learn from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust at Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp: "To this day, there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened -- a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and ignorant and hateful. This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts; a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our history."</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hate groups riled up, researchers say</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/06/11/hate.groups/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/06/11/hate.groups/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hate groups have intensified their rhetoric in recent months, but this new energy hasn't necessarily translated to an increase in the rate of hate crimes in the U.S., according to some researchers.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Stand up for justice for immigrant</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/11/limon.shenandoah/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/11/limon.shenandoah/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>On July 14, 2008, 25-year old Luis Ramirez, a father of two, died after being brutally beaten by a group of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, high school football players who yelled racial epithets throughout the beating.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 16:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transgender murder, hate crime conviction a first</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/22/transgender.slaying.trial/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/22/transgender.slaying.trial/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder and a bias-motivated crime and sentenced to life in prison for killing a transgender teen he met on an online social networking site.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trial begins in slaying of transgender woman</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/16/transgender.slaying.trial/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/16/transgender.slaying.trial/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>It started as a tryst, arranged online, in a quiet town in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. She was an 18-year-old transgender woman. He was a 32-year-old rough-and-tumble gang member.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Columbia professors get images of swastikas, noose in mail</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/03/columbia.university.hate.mail/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/03/columbia.university.hate.mail/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Three professors and a former professor at Columbia University's Teachers College received hate mail this week, the New York Police Department said. It's the campus that was shaken by several bias crimes directed at black and Jewish professors in 2007.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Second arrest made in immigrant's fatal beating</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/27/hate.crime.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/27/hate.crime.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>New York police have made a second arrest in the beating death last December of an Ecuadorian immigrant -- an apparent anti-Latino and anti-gay hate crime, an official with Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes' office said Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Growing hate groups blame Obama, economy</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/26/hate.groups.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/26/hate.groups.report/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Don Black said he despises Barack Obama. And he said he believes illegal aliens undermine the economic fabric of the United States.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Man charged with hate crime in Ecuadorian immigrant's death</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/25/hate.crime.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/25/hate.crime.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>New York police have made an arrest in the case of an Ecuadorian immigrant beaten to death in an apparent anti-Latino and antigay hate crime in December, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>White supremacists watched in lead up to Obama administration</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/16/obama.white.supremacists/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/16/obama.white.supremacists/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hate crimes experts and law enforcement officials are closely watching white supremacists across the country as Barack Obama prepares next week to be sworn in as the first black president of the United States.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Slain immigrant's brother hopes for hate-crime legacy</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/15/nyc.ecuadoran.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/15/nyc.ecuadoran.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Mourning relatives say they hope a slain Latino immigrant can become a symbol against hate crimes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hundreds protest New York immigrant's fatal beating</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/14/nyc.ecuadorean.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/14/nyc.ecuadorean.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A few hundred people on Sunday marched in Brooklyn to protest last week's fatal beating of a 31-year-old Ecuadorean man -- an incident authorities say may have been a hate crime.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:23:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>New York immigrant dead in apparent hate crime</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/13/hate.crime/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/13/hate.crime/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A 31-year-old Ecuadorean man who was beaten last Sunday in what New York City authorities say may have been a hate crime has died at a Queens hospital, his brother said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Teen charged with murder as hate crime in immigrant's death</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/20/ny.hate.crime/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/20/ny.hate.crime/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A grand jury has indicted a Long Island teenager on a charge of second-degree murder as a hate crime in the stabbing death of an Ecuadoran immigrant this month, according to the indictment, unsealed Thursday in Suffolk County District Court.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: No time for hate</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/navarrette.killing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/navarrette.killing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>How's this for a paradox: Just days after Americans made history by electing the first black president, seven teenage thugs in Patchogue, New York, pulled a shameful page from history by forming what one prosecutor called a "lynch mob."</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Detectives: Teens 'were actively seeking victims'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/11/teens.hate.crime/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/11/teens.hate.crime/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Latino group Tuesday expressed outrage over the slaying of an Ecuadoran man, allegedly at the hands of seven teenagers in what police are calling a hate crime.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Violence Against the Homeless: Is It a Hate Crime?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1852825,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1852825,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A horrendous attack on a street person in Los Angeles once again raises the issue of protecting the homeless</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cyndi Lauper and her hero fight for gay rights</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/10/08/heroes.lauper.nelson/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/10/08/heroes.lauper.nelson/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Throughout her career, singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper has promoted gay and lesbian rights. She has a personal connection to this cause -- her sister is a lesbian -- but she also believes it's a matter of fairness. </description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viewpoint: What's Wrong with the Hate-Crimes Bill</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1849412,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1849412,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Inspired by the heinous murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998, proposed legislation would virtually expand existing laws to the un-American point of
policing thoughts</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Russian Teens Guilty of 13 Ethnic Killings</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843376,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843376,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A Moscow court on Monday convicted 12 teenage boys and a man of committing a series of vicious ethnic attacks, including the murder of a chess champion who was a member of Russia's Yakut ethnic group</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Killing of immigrant a senseless, barbaric act</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/31/navarrette.fatalbeating/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/31/navarrette.fatalbeating/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>To listen to the immigration debate, you would think illegal immigrants have it easy.</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Prosecuting the Gay Teen Murder</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1714214,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1714214,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Viewpoint: The tragic killing of a gay eighth grader in California should be an occasion for mourning, not new hate-crime legislation</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Suspect disputes Hanukkah greeting prompted subway row</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/14/subway.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/14/subway.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>One of the 10 people accused of an anti-Semitic attack on a New York subway train disputes it began after a passenger said "Happy Hanukkah," the suspect's lawyer said Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Muslim helps Jews attacked on New York subway</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/12/subway.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/12/subway.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Muslim man jumped to the aid of three Jewish subway riders after they were attacked by a group of young people who objected to one of the Jews saying "Happy Hanukkah," a spokeswoman for the three said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rally urges hate crimes prosecutions, new AG responds</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/16/justice.rally/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/16/justice.rally/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thousands of demonstrators encircled Justice Department headquarters in the nation's capital Friday to demand the government crack down harder on hate crimes.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Marchers: W. Va. Case is Hate Crime</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1680478,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1680478,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Hundreds marched through Charleston, W.Va., to urge prosecutors to add hate crime charges against six white people charged in the assault of a 20-year-old black woman</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rev. Sharpton Open to Meeting With 'Dog' Chapman</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20156192,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20156192,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The Rev. Al Sharpton says he is willing to meet Duane "Dog" Chapman, the A&amp;amp;E reality star who is under fire for making racist remarks, and would like Chapman to join in an upcoming march on Washington, D.C., to demonstrate his opposition to hate crimes and racism.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Noose incidents: Foolish pranks or pure hate?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/11/01/nooses/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/11/01/nooses/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The media spotlight might have shone most intensely on Jena, Louisiana, but a symbol of racial violence has been hung across America lately, spurring anger, resentment and a big question. </description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police probing noose incident review Columbia  surveillance video</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/12/columbia.noose/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/12/columbia.noose/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>New York police detectives are reviewing surveillance video from Columbia University in hopes of identifying the person or persons who hung a noose on a professor's office door earlier in the week.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police: Black student marked with 'KKK' at deaf school</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/03/deafschool.racial.incident/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/03/deafschool.racial.incident/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A weekend incident with racial overtones at a high school for deaf students could result in criminal charges with "enhanced penalties for a hate crime," Metro Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI Reviewing Anti-Jena 6 Web Page</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1664647,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1664647,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description/><pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. attorney: Nooses, beating at Jena High not related</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/19/jena.six.link/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/19/jena.six.link/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>There is no link between the nooses hung by white students outside a Louisiana high school and the alleged beating of a white student by black teens, according to the U.S. attorney who reviewed investigations into the incidents. </description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Horrid Details in W. Va. Torture Case</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1663298,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1663298,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The list of horrors allegedly endured by a woman at the hands of six people in a remote trailer grew during the suspects' court hearings</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ball State police fail to solve racial notes case</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/ncaa/09/14/ballstate.investigation.ap/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/ncaa/09/14/ballstate.investigation.ap/index.html</guid><description>MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) -- An investigation into notes including racial slurs that were found in the Ball State's men's basketball office has yielded no results, school officials said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Torture victim may have known rape suspect, prosecutor says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/09/12/woman.tortured/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/09/12/woman.tortured/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A 20-year-old woman who police say was kidnapped, and then tortured and sexually assaulted for at least a week, may have had a previous relationship with one of the suspects charged in the case, a prosecutor said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Torture suspects may face hate crime charges</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/09/11/woman.tortured/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/09/11/woman.tortured/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Six West Virginians charged with kidnapping, torturing and sexually assaulting a woman for at least a week may also face hate crime charges, Logan County Sheriff's officials said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>6 Charged in Weeklong Torture, Rape</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1660701,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1660701,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 23-year-old black woman</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Isaiah Washington: 'They Fired the Wrong Guy'</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20043284,00.html</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20043284,00.html</guid><description>Isaiah Washington, whose contract was not renewed for season four of Grey's Anatomy, is now saying ABC made a mistake letting him go.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Big Brother' racial slur eviction</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/06/07/bigbrother.eviction/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/06/07/bigbrother.eviction/index.html</guid><description>A contestant on Britain's "Big Brother" reality TV show, has been kicked off for using a racially offensive word against another housemate.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>White House threatens to veto hate-crimes bill</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/03/hate.crimes.bill/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/03/hate.crimes.bill/index.html</guid><description>The White House has threatened to veto a bill passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday that expands hate-crime laws to include attacks based on sexual orientation or gender.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suspect named in attack on Nobel laureate</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/02/16/wiesel.attacked/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/02/16/wiesel.attacked/index.html</guid><description>Police issued an arrest warrant Friday for a New Jersey man suspected of roughing up Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco hotel earlier this month.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Shootout kills gay-bar attack suspect</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/02/05/robida/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/02/05/robida/index.html</guid><description>An 18-year-old suspected in hatchet attacks and shootings at a Massachusetts gay bar died Sunday after a gunbattle with Arkansas police, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2006 15:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>AT&amp;amp;T Wireless ad prompts protest</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/04/news/companies/att_ad/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/04/news/companies/att_ad/index.htm</guid><description>AT&amp;amp;T Wireless has outraged Asian-American civil rights organizations with a full page ad appearing Wednesday in newspapers across the country, prompting an apology from the cell phone carrier.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>AT&amp;amp;T Wireless ad raises Asian ire</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/02/04/att.wirelessad/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/02/04/att.wirelessad/index.html</guid><description>AT&amp;amp;T Wireless has outraged at least two Asian-American civil rights organizations with a full page ad that appeared in newspapers across the United States Wednesday, prompting an apology from the cell phone carrier.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2004 00:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The importance of being dishonest, hateful moments in Washington, D.C., metaphysics in a bottle. CRIME AND PREJUDICE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/06/04/73604/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/06/04/73604/index.htm</guid><description>Based on knowledge and belief and a certain amount of off-the-record interviewing, we would aver that the Bush Administration is less ecstatic about the new hate-crimes law than it pretends to be. ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>