Gov.-elect Pedro Pierluisi has tried to distance himself from the anti-LGBTQ views of his party, but it remains to be seen if he will make curbing anti-LGBTQ discrimination and hate crimes a priority. Puerto Rico has been at the forefront of LGBTQ rights. We are far...
“Our communities, especially those most affected by hate crimes such as the Latino community, deserve better,” Rep. Sylvia García said. There’s no denying that violence increased since President Donald Trump got elected in 2016. The FBI reports that...
Events to mark the deadliest attack on Latinos took on a new layer of meaning amid the pandemic. On August 3, 2019, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old anti-immigrant white male drove 656 miles from Allen, Texas to El Paso. His mission was to kill Latinos at a...
Did shooting suspect Gregory McMichael get special treatment because he had been a longtime investigator at the Brunswick Circuit District Attorney’s office? ATLANTA (AP) — There was an abundance of evidence when officers arrived at the scene on a February...
The numbers from the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center reveal that the alarming spike in hate crimes continues to grow across the nation. In a hard to watch video that recently surfaced, Gregory and Travis McMichael are seen shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery...