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Hate crimes in Arizona in 2020 were the highest reported since 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, according to new FBI statistics, but advocates and experts say many

Hate crimes in Arizona in 2020 were the highest reported since 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, according to new FBI statistics, but advocates and experts say many more hate crimes mostly likely were unreported.

The 282 hate crimes reported in Arizona in 2020 were the most since 2001, when hate crimes spiked in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the FBI says. Advocates for minorities say the number of hate crimes is underreported for several reasons.

The Biden administration has not delivered on one of the main mandates of the COVD-19 Hate Crimes Act.

Nearly two years since the pandemic unleashed an anti-Asian hate and almost seven months since legislation was passed to address it, little has been done.

The iconic Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson passed away with a few years ago, but he has left us with something timeless and extraordinary – an

report, “Managing Political Tensions: Strategies to Counter Hate, Extremism, and Violence on Campus.” The Covid-19 pandemic has been a nightmare for higher education, but during the 2020-21 academic year it largely spared the nation’s sparsely populated campuses from rising political tensions. That reprieve is likely to end as colleges open back up, forcing them to be alert not just to heated partisan rhetoric but also to potential violence. Experts point to the 2017 “Unite the Right”...

New Maine law aims to prevent racial profiling in traffic stops WGME Replay Video UP NEXT PORTLAND (WGME) -- A new law in Maine is trying to prevent patterns of racial profiling by tracking the race of people involved in traffic stops. Maine is now one of the few states on the forefront of ending biased-based policing. © Provided by WGME Portland “We need to do a better job of measuring what our police officers are doing,” Jack McDevitt of the Race & Justice Institute at ...

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It's the largest number of background checks since the FBI began tracking them more than two decades ago.