The Noose: An American Nightmare

The noose, a symbol of hatred from America's dark past, has resurfaced. Why is it back? CNN’s Kyra Phillips investigates the shocking history of the noose and its re-emergence across the United States. Watch Thursday, November 1, at 8 p.m. ET (CNN Special Investigation Unit).

Logan County, WV Torture Case - Are Hate Crime Laws Needed?

The recent, brutal attacks on Megan Williams show that violence motivated by race and gender is a real threat, according to organizers of a forum on hate crimes at West Virginia University (Civil Rights - Public News Service).

Groups Support West Virginia Torture Victim (Megan Williams)

Media coverage of the Coaliation to End Race and Gender Violence by the The Wilmington Journal, Part of the BlackPressUSA Network.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

The West Virginia Deputy Attorney General, Paul R. Sheridan visited the Marilyn E. Lugar Courtroom at the WVU College of Law to speak during an event titled “Hate Crimes, Gender Violence and Community Responses: a Forum in Honor of Megan Williams.” The event was covered by The Daily Athenaeum at the West Virginia University.

Hate Crimes, Gender Violence, & Community Responses

COALITION TO END RACE & GENDER VIOLENCE

Columbia hands over video for noose probe

The graduate school where a noose was found on the door of a black professor agreed Thursday to turn over security videotape, but police were dismayed that they had to get a subpoena to acquire the evidence (October 11, 2007, MSNBC.com).

Lawmakers decry inaction over noose hangings, local prosecutor’s conduct

Democratic lawmakers denounced federal authorities Tuesday for not intervening in the Jena Six case, citing racist noose-hanging incidents far beyond the small Louisiana town where a school attack garnered national attention (October 16, 2007, MSNBC.com).

Race & Diversity Related Links

DiversityInc.com

DiversityInc is the leading publication on diversity and business. Founded in 1998 as a web-based publication, its monthly print magazine was launched in 2002.

How Race Is Lived in America

Two generations after the end of legal discrimination, race still ignites political debates — over Civil War flags, for example, or police profiling. But the wider public discussion of race relations seems muted by a full-employment economy and by a sense, particularly among many whites, that the time of large social remedies is past. Race relations are being defined less by political action than by daily experience, in schools, in sports arenas, in pop culture and at worship, and especially in the workplace. These encounters — race relations in the most literal, everyday sense — make up this series of reports, the outcome of a yearlong examination by a team of Times reporters.

The Big Picture

An interactive report on Civil Rights today.

Hate Crimes Bill

A detailed resource on a variety of hate crime legislation nationwide.

hate in the news

A black high school student at a school for the deaf in Washington DC was held and marked with swastikas and "KKK" by 6 white students on Wednesday. http://kdka.com/topstories/topstories_story_277103940.html