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I write this from my office in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum where I have been privileged to have had a fellowship for the past semester. Up until Wednesday at 12:50 p.m., it had been a perfect visit. Everything a scholar could hope for: exceptional scholarly resources and a magnificent museum staff.
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.
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."
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.
An 88-year-old Maryland man with a long history of ties to white supremacist groups is the suspect in Wednesday's fatal shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, two law enforcement officials told CNN.
During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama said that he hoped his administration wouldn't get hung up on matters of race.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor continued making the rounds on Capitol Hill Wednesday, meeting several additional U.S. senators who will help decide whether she becomes the country's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor dominated the sounds of Sunday, as you might expect on the weekend after the first African-American president announced his nomination of the first Latina woman for the nation's highest court.
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.
Two Americans banned from entering the United Kingdom because the government feels they have been "stirring up hatred" responded by slamming the country's home secretary, and one of them threatened to sue her.
I write this from my office in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum where I have been privileged to have had a fellowship for the past semester. Up until Wednesday at 12:50 p.m., it had been a perfect visit. Everything a scholar could hope for: exceptional scholarly resources and a magnificent museum staff.
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.
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."
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.
An 88-year-old Maryland man with a long history of ties to white supremacist groups is the suspect in Wednesday's fatal shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, two law enforcement officials told CNN.
During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama said that he hoped his administration wouldn't get hung up on matters of race.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor continued making the rounds on Capitol Hill Wednesday, meeting several additional U.S. senators who will help decide whether she becomes the country's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor dominated the sounds of Sunday, as you might expect on the weekend after the first African-American president announced his nomination of the first Latina woman for the nation's highest court.
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.
Two Americans banned from entering the United Kingdom because the government feels they have been "stirring up hatred" responded by slamming the country's home secretary, and one of them threatened to sue her.
White supremacists, Islamic clerics, a controversial Kansas pastor and a U.S. talk show host are on a list of 22 people banned from Britain for "stirring up hatred," the British government said Tuesday.
Dozens of international envoys walked out during a speech by Iran's president Monday as he accused Israel of having a "racist government" and committing genocide.
Two leading Jewish watchdog groups are denouncing a prominent cartoonist's illustration about Israel's offensive in Gaza, saying it uses anti-Semitic imagery.
Don Black said he despises Barack Obama. And he said he believes illegal aliens undermine the economic fabric of the United States.
Michael Bookatz, 32, was walking home one night in January when he noticed a man walking toward him.
The daughter of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been axed by a BBC television show after she made an offensive "off-air" remark, the corporation has confirmed.
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.
A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because the Klansmen mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.
With a little less than a month before the election, this week started with a re-examination of Barack Obama's association with William Ayers.
The campus has come a long way since its painful integration years, but the KKK will be at the debate to try to stir up old hatreds
Death has a way of sanitizing the most virulent and despicable aspects of prominent lives, especially those who trafficked in racial bigotry.
Luther Blissett remembers vividly what it was like walking out into an Italian stadium when he played for AC Milan in the early 1980s.
So often it starts with just a provocative word, and in my case it was three ... "Black and Blue". A phrase more commonly used to describe bruising and pain had been used as the title of an autobiography by Chelsea's first black footballer, Paul Canoville.
As a player who has won African and Olympic titles with Cameroon and Spanish league and Champions League titles with Barcelona as well as three African footballer of the year awards, Samuel Eto'o expects to command respect.
Analysis: Economic inequality, not racism, drove the wave of anti-immigrant violence that shook the post-apartheid order. And that's a global problem
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said any of his backers who also support Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy shouldn't be dissuaded by the senator's denunciation of him
South African college campuses are in turmoil after anti-integration white students are shown humiliating black service staff
British driver Lewis Hamilton was subjected to racist abuse from some of the crowd in Barcelona. Will tougher sanctions from the authorities put an end to the problem?
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.
A student who videoed a re-enactment of the "Jena 6" incident apologized and said the video was not intended to make fun of the six black students arrested in the beating of a white classmate, according to The News-Star newspaper of Monroe, Louisiana.
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly says his review of famed Harlem restaurant Sylvia's is being taken out of context and was not racist.
The convoy of buses pulled onto the shoulder Thursday morning, about 25 miles from Jena. Niele Anderson, the Los Angeles DJ and newspaper editor who made last-minute arrangements to get me on the bus, motioned to follow her, "C'mon, let's get out."
Mychal Bell, the sole defendant who remains behind bars from the group of teens known as the "Jena 6," will not be released Friday, a court decided.
UEFA has begun an investigation into a series of unsavory incidents which marred England's 2-0 win over Serbia in the European under-21 Championship in Nijmegen on Sunday night.
A contestant on Britain's "Big Brother" reality TV show, has been kicked off for using a racially offensive word against another housemate.
British broadcaster Channel 4, already facing a backlash for alleged bullying and racist remarks by contestants in "Celebrity Big Brother," is at the center of a new row over comments made in another of its reality shows.
Mobile phone giant Carphone Warehouse has suspended its sponsorship of TV's "Celebrity Big Brother" as a result of row over the alleged "racist" treatment of an Indian actress.
Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has spoken for the first time of her fears that she is the victim of racism in the "Celebrity Big Brother" house.
A British television channel boss has said "Celebrity Big Brother" will stay on the air despite a row over the alleged "racist" treatment of an Indian actress on the show.
Tony Blair spoke out against racism "in all its forms" after complaints about the treatment of an Indian film star housemate on the British TV show "Celebrity Big Brother."
Channel 4 attempted to cool an escalating row over alleged bullying of Indian Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on "Celebrity Big Brother," saying there was no clear evidence of racism.
I was a member of the audience at a recent CNN forum on racism held in Beaumont, Texas. ("Out in the Open: Racism in America," December 19). I believe that the show's focus on racism in southeast Texas was much too narrow.
How serious a problem is racism in the United States? A new CNN poll finds that black people and white people have dramatically different views on the subject.
Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll.
Michael Richards says he is "deeply, deeply sorry" for using racial epithets, including the "n word," after being heckled at a comedy club.
Claims by two England players they were called monkeys during an under-21 match against Germany will be investigated by UEFA.
It appears that another of the Clintons' 1990s goals has come a cropper, to wit, ending the "Politics of Personal Destruction." It is election time in the Great Republic, and that means that for a few months candidates for high office might be beset by charges that have never heretofore been an issue. If they do not respond to those charges with great adroitness, even deviousness, they might be defeated and perhaps spend the rest of their lives under a moral cloud.
The German Football Federation (DFB) have fined Bundesliga clubs Alemannia Aachen and Borussia Monchengladbach 50,000 euros and 19,000 euros respectively for racist slurs by fans in the league meeting on September 16.
American film director Spike Lee has praised FIFA president Sepp Blatter for the federation's moves to eliminate racism from the game.
Pugnacious anthems and racist diatribes have never been in short supply at Nordic Fest, an annual white-power Woodstock held over the Memorial Day break near the former mining town of Dawson Springs, Kentucky. And this past weekend was no exception. On the agenda were a Triumph of the Will -- themed running event and a cross "lighting" sponsored by the Imperial Klans of America. But something new did arise at Nordic Fest this year: bellicose talk and plans of action against illegal immigrants. Among the scheduled guest speakers was Hal Turner, a New Jersey Internet radio talk-show host who recently instructed his audience to "clean your guns, have plenty of ammunition ... and then do what has to be done" to undocumented workers.
Manchester United's England defender Rio Ferdinand has accused UEFA of not doing enough to combat racism in the European game.
Anderlecht striker Nenad Jestrovic has defended himself against claims he racially abused Liverpool's Momo Sissoko during their Champions League tie on Tuesday.
Standing at what was once a U.S. Revolutionary War battlefield, about 125 Neo-Nazis and sympathizers held a rally Saturday while two groups of counter demonstrators protested.
The hooded man rushed up to the doorway of Temple Bnai Israel, a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Seconds later, he threw the firebomb and ran off.
An Argentine soccer player was detained after a Copa Libertadores match in Brazil on Wednesday because of alleged racist insults.
A couple of hours up the road from where some September 11 hijackers learned to fly, the new head of Aryan Nation is praising them -- and trying to create an unholy alliance between his white supremacist group and al Qaeda.
Chelsea have denied allegations that a member of their staff taunted Barcelona player Samuel Eto'o with racist abuse following the English side's Champions League victory on Tuesday.
Spain coach Luis Aragones believes he has been unfairly treated after a Spanish football federation decision to fine him over a comment about Arsenal star Thierry Henry and remarks about Britain's colonial past.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone says he will not apologize or express regret for likening a Jewish reporter to a Nazi "concentration camp guard." The following is the full text of his statement:
Britain's Sports Minister says that FIFA missed an opportunity to make a stand against racism by failing to punish Spain adequately for abuse by fans against English players in a friendly in Madrid last month.
The Spanish Football Federation was fined 100,000 Swiss francs ($87,340) by FIFA on Tuesday for the racist chanting of its fans at the friendly against England in Madrid last month.
Two Albacete fans have been fined 6,000 euros each and banned from football stadiums for five months after racially abusing Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter spelt out his determination to stamp out racism in the game when he said on Sunday that he would even have backed England players if they had walked off in the face of a torrent of racist abuse in a friendly against Spain.
Spanish side Sevilla have been given an increased fine after their fans chanted racist abuse and set off fireworks during the UEFA Cup tie with Nacional Madeira in September.
The English FA has received a letter of apology from the Spanish FA after fans racially abused England players during Wednesday's match in Madrid.
The Spanish football federation is facing disciplinary action from UEFA and FIFA after the racist abuse directed at several black England players during Wednesday night's friendly in the Bernabeu.
England will complain to FIFA about racist abuse directed at their black players during an U-21 friendly international in Spain.
Richard Girnt Butler, the white supremacist who founded the racist Aryan Nations organization, has died at 86.
French President Jacques Chirac says Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not welcome in Paris until he explains his appeal to French Jews to leave the country, a presidential spokeswoman said.
Fifty-five nations at an international conference have pledged to suppress rising anti-Semitism and agreed that the Middle East conflict cannot justify attacks on Jews.
German President Johannes Rau appealed to European governments to step up the fight against anti-Semitism as he opened a 55-nation conference in Berlin.
Jewish and European leaders have called for concrete action to combat a resurgence of the "monster" of anti-Semitism on the continent.
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