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The Hate Crime Files
by Terrance Heath
A podcast about crimes motivated by prejudice on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other grounds.
Episodes
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Episode 23: Ahmaud Arbery, Part 3
Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man, was chased down, cornered, and killed near Brunswick, GA, by white vigilantes on February 23, 2020, while jogging through a white neighborhood. The men who killed the 25-year-old Arbery claimed they thought he was a burglar after allegedly spotting him looking...
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Episode 22: Ahmaud Arbery pt. 2
Ahmaud Arbery’s life was at a crossroads on February 23, when he laced up his running shoes for his daily run. Ahmaud probably wasn’t thinking about his past that Sunday afternoon. He had plans for the future. His mother said he intended to go back to South Georgia Technical College and complete...
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Episode 21: Ahmaud Arbery
It was a sunny Sunday afternoon when 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery set out from his home in Glynn County, Georgia, just outside of Brunswick, where he lived with his mother in the predominantly black community called Fancy Bluff. Nestled in a marshy coastal corner of Georgia, Glynn County is about…
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Episode 20: The Red Summer of 1919, Jenkins County
Last year marked the 100th anniversary of a pivotal summer in American history, African American history, and the civil rights movement. It was known as the Red Summer of 1919. Author James Weldon Johnson, who also wrote the lyrics to "Lift Every Voice And Sing," gave it that name because of the...
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Episode 19: Coronavirus Racism
Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic is following the patterns of other outbreaks. Fear and ignorance are spreading nearly as fast as the virus itself. Worse yet, it seems to be trickling down from the highest levels of government. In a disturbing trend, Asian Americans and Asians in other...
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Episode 18: Richard Collins III
Richard Collins III, a 23-year-old African-American student at Maryland's Bowie State University, appeared to be on the threshold of a promising future. He was set to graduate and would have walked across the stage to accept his diploma on Tuesday, May 23. But Collins would never get to celebrate...
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Episode 17: Tallahassee Hot Yoga Shooting
In 10 days, just before the 2018 midterm elections, Americans saw four terrifying new hate crimes. On October 24, 51-year-old Gregory Bush tried and failed to break into a black church outside of Louisville. He went to a nearby Kroger, and killed two black shoppers, telling a bystander that…
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Episode 16: Collier Township Shooting
In his 2017 book "Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era," sociologist Michael Kimmell coined the term "aggrieved entitlement" to describe the state of mind of some American white men, who become angry to the point of advocating mass murder and genocide. Kimmell argues that...
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Episode 15: Julio Rivera & Edgar Garzon
Today New York City's Jackson Heights neighborhood is also home to a large, mostly Latino LGBTQ community, which has transformed the area into a destination spot that rivals Chelsea and the Village. It's also become home to LGBTQ families seeking good schools, affordable rents, an easy commute…
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Holiday Break
I wanted to post a quick announcement to let my listeners know that I've decided to take a break from posting new episodes during the holiday season, and will return will all-new episodes in the new year. I've had a great first year doing this podcast, and I'm grateful to all the listeners who...
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Episode 14: Lynching
Democrats in the House of Representatives have launched public impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump, following an inquiry into whistleblower testimony that Trump asked the President of Ukraine to investigate the family of a political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and...
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Episode 13: Timothy Coggins
On October 9, 1983, 10-year-old Christopher Vaughn was out hunting with his father when the two of them came across the body of an African-American male in a grassy ditch next to some power lines. The body was so severely damaged that authorities had trouble identifying it. Police asked the…
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Episode 12: Matthew Shepard
This week marked the 21st anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death. Since the details of Matthew Shepard's murder are widely known and readily available for anyone to look them up, I wanted to do something a little different from the usual narrative for this episode. Fortunately, I had the chance…
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Episode 11: White Supremacy and Terrorism
For the last 20 years of his life, Caughman lived on W. 36th Street in Manhattan, at the Barbour Hotel. The single room occupancy hotel now provides housing for people transitioning out of homelessness, but Caughman was not homeless. Svein Jorgensen, the chief executive of Praxis Housing...
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Episode 10: Arthur Warren
Arthur "J.R." Warren was a 26-year-old African American gay man, who resided in Grant Town, West Virginia. He lived with his parents and his 16-year-old sister Audra on Paw Paw Street, nestled between the main road and the railroad tracks that is home to most of Grant Town's black residents. His...
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Episode 9: Duanna Johnson
Discrimination and denial of opportunity put many transgender people in harm's way by leaving them vulnerable to poverty and homelessness and causing some resort to sex work as a means of survival. That was the situation facing 43-year-old Duanna Johnson, an African American transgender woman...
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Episode 8: Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting
October 27, 2018, began as a peaceful Saturday morning. It was the Sabbath many of the residents of Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, and there was a slight drizzle as they made their way to synagogue. The tree-lined neighborhood about 10 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh is a hub of the...
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Episode 7: Spencer Deehring and Tristan Perry
In Western culture, we're taught at an early age that it matters when men hold hands. At a young age, boys may hold hands with other boys or even hug and kiss. But as they approach their pre-teens, they learn to believe that their human nature is unacceptable. It's so intolerable that some men…
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Episode 6: Maddison Kleeman Rose
In 2017, the Rose family moved to Achille from Sherman, Texas, with their daughter Maddison, or Maddie for short. Maddison Kleeman Rose is a pretty typical Oklahoma 12-year-old. She enjoys school, she dances at the drop of a hat, and she loves going to church. The only difference is that Maddie…
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Episode 5: Daniel Fetty
It was late on a Saturday night in the small town of Waverly, Ohio, on October 4, 2004. It was not going to be a good night for 39-year-old Daniel Fetty. He was already dealing with a handicap. Fetty was hearing impaired and used a hearing aid, which would perhaps factor into the events of that...
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Episode 4: Jason Gage
It was a Friday night on March 11, 2005, when 29-year-old Jason Gage walked into Kings & Queens, a local gay bar in Waterloo, Iowa. Jason Gage was probably just looking forward to meeting some friends and having a fun night out, but that's not how the night would end.For that would be the night...
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Episode 3: Gabriel Fernandez
Gabriel Fernandez was eight years old. In photographs, he often has close-cropped dark brown hair, which accentuates his sharp features and almond-shaped eyes. Those features soften when his face opens up into a smile, revealing two missing front teeth. In one, he sits on the floor at home…
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Episode 2: Anthony Avalos
On June 20, 2018, paramedics found 10-year-old Anthony Avalos unresponsive in the Mohave Desert, California apartment he shared with his mother, 29-year-old Heather Barron, her 32-year-old boyfriend Kareem Leiva, and his eight other siblings. Barron had called 911 claiming that Anthony had been...
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Episode 1 - Michells Abdill and Roxanne Ellis
Michelle Abdill and Roxanne Ellis were coworkers when they met in Colorado Springs in 1983 and eventually became a couple. In 1990, they moved to Medford, Oregon to escape anti-LGBT hostility in Colorado Springs. They wouldn't avoid it entirely. In 1995, they were murdered by Robert Acremant, in...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast about crimes motivated by prejudice on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other grounds.
HOSTED BY
Terrance Heath
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A podcast about crimes motivated by prejudice on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other grounds.
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The Hate Crime Files is created and hosted by Terrance Heath.
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