hate speech

A charter school in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is investigating after hateful messages were discovered, the latest in a series of racist incidents that have been reported. Officials at the Rising Tide Charter Public School confirm a white supremacist slogan and homophobic slurs were found written on the walls of a boys’ bathroom. The school also says there have been other times…

Quincy High School and middle school students planned to stage a walk out again Monday after a new racist video circulated through the community. Hundreds of students walked out of Quincy High School last week after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” resurfaced and led to a fight between two students. A new video emerged Friday of three Point…

Danvers school officials are expected to discuss Monday whether to remove the district’s superintendent over an alleged attempt to cover up bigoted locker room behavior by the 2019-2020 boys varsity high school hockey team. Danvers High School has been roiled by the description of rituals where players disrobed and were fondled, something dubbed “Gay Tuesday,” and where players were...

Hundreds of students walked out of Quincy High School on Friday morning after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” led to a fight between two students earlier this week.

Parents will voice their concerns Friday after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” lead to a fight between two Quincy High School students earlier this week.

Hundreds of students walked out of Quincy High School on Friday morning after a year-old video containing “racist hate speech” led to a fight between two students earlier this week. The fight broke out after dismissal over a video that was created outside of school over a year ago but recently shared between students on social media. Freshman Jayden Harris…

Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Facebook in India dithered in curbing hate speech and anti-Muslim content on its platform and lacked enough local language moderators to stop misinformation.

Over the past few days, Michael Rich has made multiple trips to the wall he curates on the side of Aura, a music venue on Center Street in Portland. Sometime between Thursday and Friday, it was one of the walls with murals in an alley behind Aura that was splattered with light pink paint and vandalized with homophobic and anti-Black…

Portland police say they have opened an investigation into what happened but that cannot fix damage to the artwork.

Racial slurs and profanity spray-painted on a man’s car in his Maine driveway are being investigated as a possible hate crime.

Tufts University is investigating reported anti-Asian and anti-Semitic incidents that occurred on its campus last week.

Tufts University is investigating reported anti-Asian and anti-Semitic incidents that occurred on its campus last week. According to the university, passengers in a vehicle allegedly yelled anti-Asian slurs while driving by several students who were walking on campus. One of the students who says he was threatened and verbally insulted while walking down the street last week says he no…

Someone anonymously left racist flyers promoting a white nationalist website and urging white nationalist ideas on utility poles and car windows throughout Hanover, Massachusetts, on Monday.

The Claims Conference, an organization that seeks restitution for victims of the Holocaust, launched a social media campaign explaining the speech and words that were said prior to the Nazi-led genocide of millions of people, including 6 million Jewish people.

An incident of what officials called pro-rape hate speech is being investigated at Quincy High School.

Senior U.S. Navy commanders have met with sailors on ships on the West Coast after two recent racist incidents triggered one of the first military stand-downs to address extremism in the ranks

A Senate panel has voted to compel testimony from the CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter.

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms.

The leaders of four civil rights groups called for advertisers to continue boycotting Facebook on Tuesday after a meeting with the company’s top executives that left them feeling unconvinced of the social media giant’s commitment to stopping hate speech.