Hate Crimes

Actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct for making a false report of a hate crime. Research shows such reports are rare.

The daughter of a KKK Grand Dragon discusses life with the Klan, how she escaped, and the state of hate today.

City, state, tribal, and other law enforcement agencies reported more than 7,000 hate crimes to the FBI in 2017, according to numbers the FBI released on Tuesday.

The Pittsburgh massacre wasn't the first—or last—act of anti-Semitism in the past week.

When a young Jewish woman was murdered at my university a decade ago, the crime seemed unthinkable. Today, such events can feel almost chillingly unsurprising.

Violence driven by racial or religious hatred is as American as apple pie, according to a cultural anthropologist who has studied the white-power movement.

Studies find that many of them connect with like-minded believers online and broadcast their ideology and intentions before they act.

The social media profile of a murderer in Kentucky shows ample evidence of racism—so why did the media focus primarily on his schizophrenia?

Shepard's murderer unsuccessfully claimed gay panic, a defense that's still legal in 47 states.

Among the 3,000 Muslim, Jewish, and Sikh residents surveyed, some 38 percent said they had been verbally harassed or taunted because of their race or faith.

Islamophobic incidents are up, but so is Muslim-American engagement in politics.

Twenty years after the brutal, racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas, some residents are trying to scrub the crime—and the bigotry behind it—from the town's history.

New research shows adolescents mimic their peers' cruel behavior—especially when it harms members of a disliked minority.

A civil rights report visualizes anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States.

There were 1,986 reported anti-Semitic incidents last year.

Anti-Muslim hate crimes are recorded at a rate of less than half their Jewish counterparts in America. Those numbers may not paint a full picture.

Depending on where you're born, things might not have gotten that much better.

Only a fraction of bias crimes ever get reported. Fewer still get successfully prosecuted. Perhaps the widespread lack of training for frontline officers has something to do with that.

A man prays in front of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association Jewish community center during the commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist bombing attack that killed 85 people and injured 300, in Buenos Aires on July 18th, 2017.

It's been about six months since ProPublica joined forces with newsrooms around the country to track hate. They've collected information on thousands of incidents, but much remains unknown about the scale of the problem.

A new federal survey on hate crimes offers cause for both alarm and confusion.

The gaps in data damage efforts to understand the nature and scope of violence driven by racial and religious hatred.

Data explains it all.

Shootings like the one at a Colorado clinic are rare. Stalking, hate mail, and intimidating protests are the daily reality.