California experienced an increase in hate crimes, about 11-percent, in 2016. This is the second consecutive year the state has experienced an increase, but that number is still lower than a decade ago reports The Associated Press. Jewish people...
In an effort to combat hate crimes, the city of Portland plans to pay community groups to track incidents, support victims and train people to resist or disrupt hateful activity.
The grant calls on community groups, collectively eligible for $350,000...
Summer semesters are often quiet in the ROTC offices at Bowie State University. The unit’s cadets are away, training in places from Kentucky to Tanzania. Those who graduated are launching their military careers.
But this summer the quiet is tinged...
California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley on Wednesday announced that Laura Hope, dean of instructional support at Chaffey College, will join the state Chancellor’s Office as executive vice chancellor for educational services...
Univision.com
July 9, 2017
The Justice Department has released its latest hate crime report, which says that Los Angeles' deaths accounted for nearly a quarter of California's statewide total last year. "California is an amplified version of what is...
The Sacramento Bee
July 17, 2017
When it comes to hate, as goes Los Angeles, so goes California? Hate crime reports in the city of 4 million represented nearly a quarter of all reported hate crimes in the state last year, according to the state...
CNET
July 6, 2017
Death threats. Mutilated animals. Damnation. The victims of online hatred share their experiences in this CNET article.
"You don't have to be a card-carrying member of a local skinhead group or local [Ku Klux] Klan group," says...
The Desert Sun
July 7, 2017
Joe J. Wallace, CEO and chief innovation officer of CVEP, mentioned in an opinion column: “CSUSB-Palm Desert and the College of the Desert are major contributors to the intellectual capital of the Coachella Valley and they...
TheIEVoice.com
July 7, 2017
Paulette Brown-Hinds, publisher of the Voice, wrote about the community publication’s “Mapping Black California” project with Redlands-based Esri, using the company’s ArcGIS Story Maps platform. In column, she mentioned...
Robert Schware, executive director of the Give Back Yoga Foundation, featured Cal State San Bernardino associate professor of art Annie Buckley in his column for the Huffington Post.
He wrote in the introduction to the question-and-answer format...
Cal State San Bernardino’s GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) program, in partnership with the San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD), will host the 2nd annual Educators Conference IMPACT 23 at...
July 11, 2017
Huffington Post Contributor Akilah Monifa quotes Brian Levin, director, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, in her opinion piece about making hate crimes intolerable.
According to...