Hate speech

A principal in suburban Detroit alerted students, parents and teachers about a racist video made by students at the school. Several students from the school were suspended months earlier in another incident.

A new Brazilian social media campaign is using geotagged data to expose people who use hate speech online and then hide behind anonymity.

As of Thursday morning, the threats and vandalism continued. Police were investigating an incident at the Columbia campus' Black culture center. Someone spray-painted over the word "black" on the sign to the culture center.

Carlos Anthony Hollins was arrested for sending out a tweet threatening to kill all of the White people in his town of La Plata, Maryland.

President Obama on Friday placed a call to Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law school student at the heart of the debate over the contraception law, thanking her for speaking out on the issue. The call came a day after conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh demanded that Fluke release tapes of her having sex […]

Hate speech permeates blogs, social networking sites, and discussion forums all over the world. Though inflammatory content may be protected as free speech by the U.S. Constitution, on the Internet it can have a greater potential to create a violent and fatal backlash.  Attacks on American soil are consistently linked to online hate speech: James […]