Hate Crimes

After a Confrontation, Man Dies Outside Cedar Springs Bar

A man died last weekend after a confrontation outside a bar on Cedar Springs Road. Detective Derick Chaney said video from JR's Bar & Grill shows that Joseph Chase was punched on the sidewalk then fell to the ground, unconscious. Chaney said he lay there until police arrived. He was pronounced dead ... More >>

After a McKinney Mosque Is Shot Up With Paintballs, Calls for a Hate Crime Probe

It may have been just a random prank: two dozen paintballs fired behind the Sonic in a McKinney strip center in the middle of Saturday night. The same could be said of the man whose car was hit while he drove away. But the Council on American-Islamic Relations has another word for it: hate crime. T ... More >>

Plano Police Are Working the City's First Anti-Gay Hate Crime Case

The Dallas Voice has been on this for a while now, but it deserves a belated mention. According to the Plano Police Department, two women were holding hands as they walked with an teenage friend through the parking lot of the Plano Sports Authority (a rec center) at about 2 p.m. on May 27. They wer ... More >>

Police: Two Men Were Called Gay Slurs and Beaten with Bats in Northeast Dallas Yesterday

Around 2 a.m. yesterday morning, two men were walking near the corner of Audelia Road and Forest Lane in northeast Dallas when, according to police, a dark four-door car, adorned with tinted windows and 24-inch rims, approached them slowly. There were five or six black men inside, all thought to be ... More >>

Arlington Man Gets 14 Months in Prison for "Ethnically Motivated" Arson at Mosque

​In February, you may recall, 34-year-old Henry Clay Glaspell walked into federal court in Fort Worth and admitted: He was the man who, on July 25, 2010, set fire to the playground equipment and spray-painted "explicit images" and "obscene anti-Muslim graffiti" in the parking lot at the Dar El-Ema ... More >>

Arlington Man Pleads Guilty to "Ethnically Motivated" Attacks on Mosque Last Summer

​Last July, you may recall, the FBI and Arlington Police Department confirmed that they were investigating a series of incidents at the Dar El-Eman Islamic Center on Mansfield Road in Arlington, where a playground was set on fire and "explicit images" were spray-painted on the parking lot. Said an ... More >>

DPD Now Says It Will Investigate Weekend Assaults Near Cedar Springs As Hate Crimes

​At midnight Saturday, two men were walking along the 2700 block of Throckmorton Street toward Cedar Springs Road when they were attacked by four men wielding baseball bats. The two men had their wallets and a cell phone stolen, according to the police report; one suffered a broken jaw. They both ... More >>

Eye For An Eye: Why Don't Mexicans Strike Back Against Racists Who Attack Them?

In a Report Released Today, FBI Says Hate Crimes Are Up in U.S., Down in Dallas

​New statistics collected by the FBI show fewer hate crimes being committed in Dallas in 2008 compared with 2007. According to 2008 Hate Crime Statistics, which was released today, Dallas reported 17 hate crimes, which include crimes motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity o ... More >>

Eddie Bernice Johnson Wants FBI to Include Attacks on the Homeless in Hate Crimes Stats

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson​Last year, The New York Times noted a sharp increase in violent crimes committed against the homeless -- up 65 percent from '05 to '07, according to statistics kept by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. But at the moment, attacks on the homeles ... More >>

The Right Fight

A civil rights legend speaks

Anarchy in the Big D

See some Queer theater in Uptown

Killing Hate

Matthew's mother speaks

More on Hate Crime Trial in Denton

Jamie Beck, first assistant to Denton County District Attorney Paul Johnson, sheds some light on the "hate crime" trial that took place last week in Denton. On Friday, a jury acquitted George Clifton Young of assault under the Texas hate crime statute. "We believed it was a hate crime," says Beck. ... More >>

Gay Friendly Denton?

On Monday, a case goes to trial in Denton County that might answer a question brought up last year: Can a crime against a homosexual be successfully prosecuted there? The case involves Christopher McKee, a mental health caseworker who, on December 3, 2005, was badly beaten outside a Denton club b ... More >>

Denton, Perhaps Not So "Gay-Friendly"?

A story in this week's edition of Dallas Voice points out a surprising fact: Of 1,300 anti-gay hate-crime charges filed in Texas since 2001, when the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act was enacted, only eight have been successfully prosecuted. Paul Scott, exec director of Equality Texas, told the paper ... More >>

Like a Phoenix

Judy Shepard describes the good that came from tragedy

Mystery of St. Luke

Was an influential Dallas black church desecrated by racists?

Nothing ventured

The end of the 1999 legislative session proves that, for Gov. Bush at least, it's better to look good than to do good

Buzz

GOP to gays: Butt out

Texas' Log Cabin Republicans find themselves the ultimate outsiders--vilified by both the GOP and fellow gays

Million byte march

Nation of Islam recovers from a cyber vandal assault