Hate Crimes

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

• By Emma Sarappo

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.

• By Rahima Nasa

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

• By Massoud Hayoun

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.

• By John Savage

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

• By Tom Jacobs

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

• By Ashley Hackett

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

• By Candace Butera

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.

• By F.T. Green

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

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

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.

• By A.C. Thompson, Rohan Naik & Ken Schwencke

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.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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.

• By Rachel Glickhouse

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

• By Joe Sexton

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

• By A.C. Thompson & Ken Schwencke

Data explains it all.

• By Max Ufberg

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

• By Nina Martin

Israeli researchers suggest it may be inciting an anti-Muslim backlash.

• By Tom Jacobs

Crimes targeting black and transgender Americans persist, but they are under-reported and under-recorded.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Hate-crime sentences are harsher than ever, but the terrorizing tactic still persists.

• By Lauren Kirchner

A sociologist explains why Sikh temple shooter Wade M. Page's white-power music scene is dying out, just as we're all discovering it.

• By Randy Blazak