In Iowa City, Iowa, on this date in 2008, University of Iowa seniors Justin Talley, 21, of Fairfield, and Ryan Thomas, 21 of Cedar Rapids, had threatening and racist remarks scrawled on the door of their apartment at 515 East Jefferson Street, apartment 16, and police called the incident against the black college students a hate crime. Iowa City police Sgt. Troy Kelsay said someone drew pictures of nooses and Ku Klux Klan symbols, along with racial epithets, using a black permanent marker on the African-American students' door.

In Beardstown, Illinois, in Cass County on this date in 2009, a white man, Stephen W. Surratt, 51, of Beardstown, was arrested on aggravated battery and hate crime charges for allegedly attacking a black pizza delivery man at Surratt's home and allegedly yelling racial slurs at the man. Beardstown, Illinois is a confirmed "sundown town"; it had excluded blacks from residing there. In addition, it had once been a location of Ku Klux Klan activity.

On this date in 2010 at the William Floyd High School on Mastic Beach Road in Mastic, New York (Suffolk County), two African-American men, Nashon Minter, 19 and Justin Lee Higgins, 21, allegedly pushed past school security guards, then chased down Jermell Dixon, 19, a student at the school, and allegedly physically assaulted him while hurling anti-gay slurs directed at Mr. Dixon. Arrested at the scene, the two Mastic roommates were indicted and arraigned on March 3, 2010 out of the First District Court in Central Islip, New York on charges of second-degree assault as a hate crime and second-degree gang assault (both Class C felonies). If convicted as charged, Minter and Higgins, who both pleaded not guilty, could get up to 15 years in prison each.

On this date in 2010 in the early mornning hours near the corner of Luquer Street and Hamilton Avenue in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, an unnamed 22-year-old gay Latino man was severely beaten by five men shouting anti‐gay slurs at their victim. Having suffered lacerations to the back of the head and bruises to his face, the victim was taken to the hospital after being discovered by police. If you have information about this hate crime, please call the NYPD’s 76th Precinct Detective Squad at 718-834-3221.