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Walk to End Genocide to be held Sunday in West L.A.
A charity walk to raise money and awareness for survivors of genocide around the world will take place Sunday in the Fairfax district. The seventh annual Walk to End Genocide will start at Pan Pacific Park in the 7600 block of Beverly Boulevard....Tags: Massacres, Meningitis, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide, Auction Service
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Ohio Amish face unfamiliar life in federal prison
CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen Amish men and women who have lived rural, self-sufficient lives surrounded by extended family and with little outside contact are facing regimented routines in a federal prison system where almost half of inmates are...
Tags: Justice System, Separation of Church and State, Prisons, Amish, Religion and Belief
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Assignment for 2nd graders: Color minstrel caricatures of African-Americans, black-face and a lynching?
FloriDUHWhat were they thinking? Answer: They weren't thinking at all. James Hill, the dad of a second-grader at an Atlantic Beach elementary school who had received material for a home coloring assignment during Black History Month, made a complaint to the...Tags: Murder, African-American History Month, Black History
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Niles man charged with hate crime
A Niles man faces a felony hate crime charge after police allege he hurled racial insults at a man and threatened to put a bomb in his car. Michael G. Green, 55, was arrested around 10 a.m. Feb. 22 at his residence in the 7900 block of Octavia Avenue,...
Tags: Misdemeanors, Prosecution, Crimes, Racism, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chris Bohjalian sets love amid horror
Chris Bohjalian's novel "The Sandcastle Girls" has many traditional elements of compelling fiction — people with secrets, shocking plot twists, compulsively likable characters and a rich love story. It also describes the 1915 mass killing of...
Tags: Literature, Clubs and Associations, Genocide, Human Interest, Turkey
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Man charged with hate crime in brutal assault on Sikh cab driver
SEATTLE—A man accused of brutally attacking a Sikh cab driver, stomping on him as he lay on the ground and ripping out part of his beard, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with a hate crime. The indictment of Jamie Larson, 49,...Tags: Justice System, Prisons, Prosecution, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Hate crime case ends with probation, essay
Tribune reporterAn Alsip man was sentenced today to probation and ordered to write an essay about the lynching of blacks in America after he pleaded guilty to an attack two years ago in which he and two friends put a noose around the neck of an African-American teenager...Tags: Justice System, Misdemeanors, Lisa Madigan, Judges, Juvenile Delinquency
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Glendale school board candidates talk diversity, funding and Armenian genocide
At the first Glendale Unified school board election forum of the season Wednesday night, candidates discussed districtwide diversity, language programs and commemorating the Armenian genocide. About 20 people attended the event hosted and televised by...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Elections, Massacres, Teachers, Politics
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Serious problem
A serious problem will keep occurring in society as people are becoming hesitant to report it. Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in recent years as more victims of violent attacks...Tags: Criminals, Crime, Law and Justice
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Trio of Good Samaritans stopped beating of disabled woman, cops say
FloriDUHGood Samaritans Cheryl Priester, Tonia Priester, and Patricia Robinson saw a woman being beaten with a large stick and then robbed by another woman, according to a news release from the Sarasota Police Department. Priester dialed 911 for help and all...Tags: Theft
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Blacks in Orange County feel harassed, survey finds
L.A. NOWOfficials will hold a forum in Orange County next week to discuss a survey that found that blacks in the county feel harassed. About a quarter of the African Americans who participated in the human relations study reported experiencing discrimination........ -
Feds charge 5 with hate crimes for allegedly imprisoning disabled
The federal government for the first time has used its hate crime laws to bring charges against five people who allegedly imprisoned mentally disabled people in subhuman conditions as part of a scheme to steal their Social Security benefits. In the...
Tags: Justice System, Prisons, Sex Crimes, Organized Crime, Prosecution
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