A century-old law, inspired by discredited pseudoscience, has created President Biden’s border problems.
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Congress passes bill to fight hate crimes against Asian Americans
President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bipartisan denunciation of the spate of brutal attacks that have proliferated during coronavirus pandemic.
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Prosecutor plans to seek death penalty in Atlanta spa shootings
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also filed notice that she intends to seek hate crime charges and the death penalty against Robert Aaron Long, who is white.
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Anti-Asian hate crimes skyrocket in cities around the U.S.
A study by the Center for the Study of Hate in Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino found a 164% increase in reports of anti-Asian hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year.
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Use-of-force cases prompt state debates over officer records
At least 16 states have contemplated measures to release such records, or summaries of them, publicly. Another eight have discussed making the records accessible to other law enforcement agencies.
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Connecticut racial equity meeting interrupted with racist slurs, images
Police are trying to find out who interrupted a video conference meeting of a racial equity task force with racist epithets and images of enslaved people.
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Defense set to take its turn in ex-officer’s trial in Floyd death
Derek Chauvin’s attorney is expected to have experts testify that it was George Floyd’s drug use and bad heart, not Chauvin’s actions, that killed him.
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Maine lawmaker criticized for racist email
Rep. Michael Lemelin, R-Chelsea, referred to COVID-19 as the ‘China virus’ in an email to an Asian-American resident, and downplayed the disease’s seriousness.
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Virginia’s governor calls for probe into traffic stop of Black Army officer
The town has announced that one of two police officers accused of pepper-spraying and pointing their guns at the man during a traffic stop has since been fired.
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Maine Voices: I’ve spent my working life fighting other people’s racism. Now I must confront mine.
An educator and former prosecutor is now doing the necessary work of challenging his own false stereotypes about Black people.