Here Are the Hate Incidents Against Mosques and Islamic Centers Since 2013
by Lylla Younes Data from a civil rights group shows that reports of hate incidents involving American mosques jumped sharply in 2015 and has remained at the same rate since — about once every three...
View ArticleDocumenting Hate News Index
by Pitch Interactive This page lists media reports, collected by Google News, about hate crimes and bias incidents.
View ArticleTrack News Stories About Hate With the Documenting Hate News Index
by Rachel Glickhouse When news of violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville spread across the U.S., many responded with disbelief, insisting that such abhorrent behavior and views were...
View ArticleCan Police Prevent the Next Charlottesville?
by Robert Faturechi Even before the demonstration in Virginia began last weekend, the police there knew they weren’t going to be able to handle what was coming. Charlottesville police officers,...
View ArticleSpurned by Major Companies, The Daily Stormer Returns to the Web With Help...
by Ken Schwencke The neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer was back online Friday with help from a small company whose founder said he wanted to defend free speech and raise the commercial profile of his...
View ArticleU.S. Lawmakers Seek Kushner Company Records on Maryland Apartments
by Alec MacGillis Maryland’s two U.S. senators and four of its U.S. House representatives, all Democrats, sent a letter today to the large real-estate company owned by the family of Jared Kushner,...
View ArticleDespite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate
By Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Madeleine Varner and Lauren Kirchner, Updated (Aug. 19, 2017): This story has been updated to include a comment from PayPal. Because of its “extreme hostility toward...
View ArticleWhen Hate Meets Hoax
by Kiara Alfonseca, For several months this spring, St. Olaf College, a private school of some 3,000 students in Northfield, Minnesota, was convulsed by a series of hate incidents. More than half a...
View ArticleFree Food and Networking: Apply for Our Diversity Mentorship Program at ONA
by Hannah Birch In March, we published what we’re doing in 2017 to foster diversity, both at ProPublica and within investigative journalism. In support of those goals, we’re pleased to announce that...
View ArticleIs Anybody Home at HUD?
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with New York magazine. In mid-May, Steve Preston, who served as the secretary of housing and urban development in the final two years of the George W....
View ArticlePro-Russian Bots Take Up the Right-Wing Cause After Charlottesville
by Isaac Arnsdorf Angee Dixson joined Twitter on Aug. 8 and immediately began posting furiously — about 90 times a day. A self-described American Christian conservative, Dixson defended President...
View ArticleFlorida Lawmakers to Review Law Targeting Injured Undocumented Workers
By Howard Berkes, NPR, and Michael Grabell, ProPublica, This story was co-published with NPR. The second-highest ranking member of the Florida Senate pledged a legislative review of a state law that...
View ArticleFailure to Set Cost of Carbon Hampers Trump’s Effort to Expand Use of Fossil...
by Andrew Revkin President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost fossil fuel extraction face a courtroom hurdle of his own making. His March 28 executive order “promoting energy independence and economic...
View ArticleThe Breakthrough: Behind the Scenes of Hillary Clinton’s Failed Bid for...
by Jessica Huseman .player_box, div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed { display: none; } We watched on election night as dejected Hillary Clinton supporters poured out of New York City’s Javits...
View ArticleLegisladores de Florida revisarán la ley que persigue a trabajadores...
por Howard Berkes, NPR, y Michael Grabell, ProPublica, Read in English. La senadora con el segundo rango más alto de Florida prometió una revisión legislativa de una ley estatal que ha permitido que...
View ArticleWhy Houston Isn’t Ready for Harvey
by Al Shaw, ProPublica, Neena Satija and Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune Houston faces massive flooding from Harvey. Here’s where it’s flooded in the past.
View ArticleWhite Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before...
By George Joseph, Nearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, white supremacists planning the “Unite the Right”...
View ArticleHave You Experienced Hate Speech on Facebook? We Want To Hear From You.
by Julia Angwin, Ariana Tobin, and Madeleine Varner, ProPublica, Earlier this month, in the wake of the Charlottesville attack on protesters, a post began circulating on Facebook titled: “Heather...
View ArticleTrump’s Pardon Aside, Reporters Have Built Long Rap Sheet Against Sheriff Joe
by Ryan Gabrielson President Donald Trump issued his first pardon to Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff famous for using his local police force to aggressively pursue undocumented...
View ArticleHouston’s Dams Won’t Fail. But Many Homes Will Have to Be Flooded to Save Them
by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune, Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal, and Al Shaw and Lisa Song, ProPublica, The water that goes around the spillways is going to have to leave the reservoir...
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