August 24th, 20220WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) announced the appointment of Abed Ayoub to serve as ADC national executive director.
The ADC is a long-running organization, involved in advocacy in broad-ranging incidents of discrimination against the Arab American and Muslim communities of the...
February 23rd, 20220BRUNSWICK, GA — A federal jury has found the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery guilty on all counts of interfering with the victim’s civil rights, almost a year after the young man's death.
The jury told Judge Lisa Godbey Wood that they found father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William...
August 31st, 20210After the release of the FBI’s annual hate crime statistics, a civil rights group is asking the Biden administration to make federal assistance to local law enforcement agencies contingent on their reporting and compiling of hate crime data.
The FBI’s latest statistics on hate crimes show the biggest spike since 2008. The report...
April 26th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has released a report detailing nationwide incidents of civil rights complaints by Muslim Americans that the group received over the past year.
The 2021 report is named Resilience in the Face of Hate.
The country’s “largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy...
April 16th, 20210PONTIAC — Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald marked her first 100 days in office last week. In those 100 days, McDonald has been busy bringing the office closer to the progressive objectives she ran her campaign on.
Her many policy initiative and reforms include an attempt at a modern and conscientiousness approach to...
November 18th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an annual hate crimes report released this week, the FBI announced that 2019 saw a record high number of hate crime murders in the United States.
Hate crimes are described by the FBI as an offense “motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender and gender...
November 17th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigations released its Hate Crime Statistics 2018 report this week.
The report is the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest compilation about bias motivated incidents throughout the nation. The 2018 data was submitted by 16,039 law enforcement agencies that provided...
February 16th, 20190DEARBORN — Veteran journalist and former Detroit Free Press writer Bill McGraw worked as a contributing editor for the Dearborn Historian, a quarterly magazine for members of the Dearborn Historical Museum, from May 2018 until the most recent edition of the publication resulted in his firing.
In an interview with The AANews,...
July 21st, 20181VICTORIA, Texas — A Texas man was found guilty this week of a hate crime in the burning of a local mosque in January 2017, an attack that a rights group connected to an increase in anti-Muslim incidents in the United States, on Wednesday.
Marq Vincent Perez, 26, was also found guilty on Monday by the jury in Victoria, Texas, of...
December 15th, 20170DETROIT — Hates crimes reported to police in Michigan went up 29 percent last year, according to data released on November 13 by the FBI. The increase saw a spike from 309 reported crimes to 399.
"Hate crimes are happening more often than actually reported," said Rashida Tlaib, a former state representative now working with the...
November 17th, 20170DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Dearborn Heights Police Department is conducting a joint investigation with the FBI and other local law enforcement agencies after finding threats to houses of worship and an abandoned firearm in a bag.
None of the religious institutions threatened are located in Dearborn Heights, but in other cities;...
November 17th, 20173DEARBORN — Amid a recent spike in threats against places of worship, officials and mosques in Metro Detroit are tightening security and bashing a new gun legislation that passed in the Michigan Senate last week.
It was tense at the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday, Nov. 8, when the Senate passed in a 25-12 vote a bill allowing the...
September 3rd, 20170Since his presidential campaign last year, President Trump stirred controversy with his racist and hateful rhetoric towards minorities. Then, his election pulled the trigger on an abysmal spike in racism and hate crimes— making the country’s years of shameful discrimination and bigotry acceptable again.
On Wednesday, Aug. 30, Fox...
August 30th, 20170DETROIT ― Following the events of the Charlotesville, VA. attacks, the Wayne County Commissioners took a unanimous stand against racism and bigotry and called for investigations of domestic hate groups.
On Thursday, the commission denounced all forms of bigotry in a resolution introduced jointly by Commission Vice Chairman Alisha...
March 10th, 20170WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly released a statement in response to an onslaught of hate crimes against individuals and attacks against communities.
"I strongly condemn any violent acts to perpetuate fear and intimidation not only against individuals, but entire communities," said Kelly...
March 8th, 20170A new round of bomb threats against Jewish community centers across the United States and in Canada forced lockdowns and evacuations on Tuesday, and all 100 U.S. senators asked the federal government to help them enhance security.
Threats were phoned in or emailed to JCCs in states including New York, Wisconsin, Illinois and Florida...
