In Jena and Beyond, Nooses Return as a Symbol of Hate
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When he reached his third-story workstation at a construction site near Pittsburgh two weeks ago, Errol Madyun saw the noose -- thick, neatly knotted and strong enough to hang a man.
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A recent murder indicates a backlash by some against women as their rights and opportunities increase.
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Dresden in February 1945, photo: CTK There on the hill - Nazis! A woman with a megaphone sounds the alarm to her fellow anti-fascist demonstrators, as a group of about fifty neo-Nazis - some wielding truncheons ...
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There are ghosts haunting âBanished,â about the forced expulsion of black Southerners from their homes in the troubled and violent decades after the Civil War.
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The story reflects a clash between the pageant's wholesome image and a US society that glamorizes bad behavior.
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JENA, Louisiana  - Thousands of people from across the United States descended on a small town in central Louisiana on Thursday to protest what they say is injustice against six black teenagers charged over a high school fight.
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Authorities in Alexandria, Louisiana, arrested two people after nooses were seen hanging from a red pickup Thursday night, the city's mayor told CNN. "I believe that we've confirmed at least one minor" and one adult were arrested, Mayor Jacques Roy said.
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A German court today sentenced infamous Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to five years in prison for holding a particularly unpopular opinion.  The irony of jailing people for their beliefs in the name of fighting the neo-Nazi movement seems to be lost on most of the western world, including Canada, which jailed Zundel for two years in a maximum security facility before deporting him to Germany.  Many organizations, such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, applaud the decision, but sadly lacking is a sense of outrage over the blow that this decision strikes against free speech.  Whatever happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?
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Closes one loophole but opens others The Racial and Religious Hatred Act comes into force in October, carrying a threat of prison terms for a person who tries to stir up religious hatred. However, its free speech exemptions are so wide that convictions could be difficult, a lawyer said.â¦
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JENA, La., Sept. 20 -- Thousands of demonstrators jammed the streets of this rural Louisiana town Thursday to protest what they view as excessive criminal charges against six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl.
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Comment is free: Gary Younge: The racial tensions which flared in a small southern town have laid bare the bias infecting the nation's justice system.
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As the court case between US Internet giant Yahoo and a French group trying to halt the online sales of Nazi memorabilia entered a new phase this week, experts gathered here stressed how difficult it was to regulate hate speech on the Internet.
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A decade after Susan Smith strapped her sons in their car seats and let her car roll into a lake, carrying the boys to their deaths, residents are trying to move on. But for some, the case still evokes strong emotions &#151; even hatred toward Smith.
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The case of a painter on death row walks a thin line between 'murderabilia' and prisoners' rights.
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There is a newfound willingness to confront the five nights of gunfire, looting and flames driven by race-tinged rage that disemboweled the cityâs midsection in 1967.
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PRAGUE, Sep 25 (IPS) - The case of an ethnic Hungarian student who claims  to have been attacked by Slovak xenophobes has come to symbolise  the persistent clashes that strain relations between two of the  EU (European Union)'s most unfriendly neighbours.
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Thousands of civil rights protesters march through Jena, Louisiana, a US town at the centre of a race row.