Hatewatch Headlines 4/11/18
A ranking Health and Human Services official is under investigation for racism; police fatally shoot a homeless man with a white supremacy background; the correlation between Twitter use and anti-Muslim crimes, and more.
Media Matters: A deputy communications director at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is placed on administrative leave after revelations about her racist activities.
Oregonian: A homeless man fatally shot last weekend by police in Portland, Oregon, was once a member of European Kindred, a prison-based white supremacy gang.
New York Times: Nostalgia for Rhodesia’s racist past is a new, subtle form of racist messaging.
University of Warwick: A study shows the rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes since Donald Trump's election has been concentrated in U.S. counties with high Twitter usage.
Washington Post: A historical look at the preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan.
New York Post: White supremacist propaganda is turning up inside boxes of diapers and an investigation is underway.
Tennessean: A man in Nashville, Tennessee, has been indicted for a hate crime after allegedly yelling insults at two teenage girls wearing hijabs and attacking their father.
ABC10-TV (Miami): Four suspects surrendered to police Tuesday, two days after a gay couple was attacked following the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade.
Cleveland Jewish News: A prominent Jewish philanthropist disavows anti-Muslim videos promoted by an organization he financially supported.
WTOP-TV (Oswego, N.Y.): Maryland lawmakers overwhelmingly approve changes to the state’s hate crime law, broadenings its use by prosecutors.
Right Wing Watch: Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo is expected to be grilled about his ties to anti-Muslim activists when he appears Thursday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Chronicle of Higher Education:Textbook racism: How scholars sustained white supremacy.
