In 2007 on this date in Merrillville, Indiana, an African-American couple was beaten in front of their home.  The two white assailants, both men, returned to the couple's home and smashed the windshield of the couple's car, then spray-painted the word "nigger" all over it.  Mr. Darian Brown, whose wife was pregnant at the time of the attack, reported that the assailants—one of whom said they were going to run all Blacks out of town—fled in a 1970's brown Ford car with "In God We Trust" on their Indiana license plate.

On this date in 2008 in Aurora, Illinois, Juan Recio, 19, and John Chapman, 18, pleaded guilty to hate crime charges after telephoning a couple about twenty times in October, 2006 and uttering racial slurs during those phone calls. Both were ordered to perform 200 hours of community service each, and both were placed on two years probation.

On this date in 2008 in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut’s Judiciary Committee voted 43-0 to make noose hanging on public or private property a crime, if it is meant to harass or intimidate. The vote on Senate Bill 604 came on the heels of a July, 2007, incident and an August, 2007 incident where nooses were placed at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.