Racial violence in the US
Wave of firebomb attacks on Muslim targets in New York City
By Peter Daniels, January 3, 2012
A well-known Muslim mosque was the target of a firebomb attack in New York City, in an outburst of bigotry encouraged by an official campaign of surveillance and provocation.
Seattle police beating caught on tape
By Jon Spencer, May 12, 2010
Earlier this month a video showing Seattle police using racist language while beating an innocent man came to light, after being suppressed by the media for weeks.
The resegregation of US public schools
By Larry Roberts, August 23, 1999
A new study released in June of this year by a Harvard University educational group reveals that since the late 1980s the achievements in the integration of the nation's public schools have steadily regressed, now approaching the levels of the early 1970s when the national policy of busing for integration w
US racist church linked to more murders
By Shannon Jones, July 17, 1999
More information has come to light about the racist group tied to the July 4 weekend shooting rampage in Illinois and Indiana that left two people dead. Supporters of the World Church of the Creator, based in Peoria, Illinois, have been tied to violent attacks across the US, including the recent murder of a
Racist gunman kills himself after three-day rampage in Illinois and Indiana
By Martin McLaughlin, July 6, 1999
A white supremacist college student who had murdered two men and wounded at least eight others shot and killed himself after a confrontation with police in southern Illinois late Sunday night. Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21, was linked to a series of shootings over the Fourth of July weekend which began in Ch
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