hate crimes

A Michigan bill package to make physically assaulting someone because of their sexual orientation, age, or disability status a hate crime moved out of a state House committee Tuesday.

The Michigan Senate adopted two bills this week to expand Michigan’s ethnic intimidation law.

The Michigan Legislature approved bills on Thursday that would ban institutional desecration in the state. The bills specifically ban individuals from "maliciously and intentionally" destroying or vandalizing places of worship, cemeteries, and schools.

Efforts to expand state hate crime law to include more protected classes, a national video series between academics and artists/creatives discussing Black operatives along the underground railroad, Ann Arbor flooding, and the afterlives of solar panels.

A new PSA from the Michigan Department of Civil Rights is trying to raise awareness about hate crimes and bias incidents. The minute-long video highlights various facts about hate crimes, encouraging people to speak out and take advantage of department resources.

The Anti-Defamation League reports nationwide anti-Semitic incidents rose by 36% in 2022.

A man charged with threatening the lives of Jewish Michigan public officials on Twitter has been indicted on a hate crime charge. U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison said Thursday that 41-year-old Jack Eugene Carpenter III of Tipton, Michigan, made threats against Jewish government officials in Michigan on Twitter while he was in Texas last month.

Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton says the charges against former Detective Eric Freeman stem from an incident last month during an arrest of a Black man.

A white man now faces a federal hate crime for allegedly assaulting a Black teenager in a Monroe County state park this summer, the U.S. Department of…

Today on Stateside, amidst a rise in hate crimes against both Jews and Muslims in the world, leaders of both faith communities in Southeast Michigan are…