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• Fans’ racist chants briefly hault soccer match

  May 13, 2013 in Sports on Page B2 The Serie A match between AC Milan and Roma was briefly suspended Sunday because of racist chanting directed at Italian forward Mario Balotelli (pictured) by the visiting Roma fans. Play …

• Doctors group questions North Idaho’s racist past

  May 5, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B10 BOISE – North Idaho’s reputation as a haven for white supremacists, deserved or not, likely won’t be an impediment for a doctors group booking a conference here in 2015. The … 1

• Vestal: What’s scary is this guy’s definition of what’s racist

  January 30, 2013 in City on Page A5 Isn’t Obama black and scary-looking? You know he’s black, right? And scary-looking, naturally. Nothing racist about pointing that out. Goes without saying. But hey – race relations are tricky and … 70

• Three brothers accused of hate-crime assaults

  February 10, 2012 in City on Page A7 A 19-year-old man and his two brothers have been charged with hate crimes for allegedly attacking people because of their race. Deven James-Allen Hood is accused of smashing car windows … 4

• Students encounter racism after King celebration

  January 13, 2012 in Idaho About 1,300 students from the Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls school districts attended a Martin Luther King Day celebration Friday at North Idaho College. 17

• Tried and convicted, Steele now has plenty to say

  June 15, 2011 in City on Page A5 Edgar Steele is taking off the muzzle. He’s writing. Talking to the press. Setting the record straight. 7

• Racism, here? Denial convenient, misguided

  June 3, 2011 in City on Page A5 Remember the KKK snowman? In December, a Hayden Lake doofus built a 10-foot, pointy-hooded snowman holding a noose in his front yard. Hilarious. Idaho made the news again. 3

• Love and hate – it’s all in how you look at it

  April 29, 2011 in City on Page A7 Maybe this is what they mean by a love-hate relationship. Call a bigot on their hatred and all they can talk about is love. Their love of white people. Their … 6

• Arrested felon posted to racist website

  April 21, 2011 in City on Page A5 A Whitman County man who bragged online about being involved with racist taco-truck protests in Kootenai County was arrested on a federal gun charge Wednesday. Jeremiah Daniel “J.D.” Hop, who … 1

• Felon arrested on gun charge linked to taco stand protests

  April 20, 2011 in City, Idaho The FBI has arrested a Whitman County man on a federal gun charge. Jeremiah Daniel “J.D.” Hop, who describes himself as an anti-race mixing activist on the racist website Vanguard … 10

• Rally promotes peace, encourages dialogue on race

  April 4, 2011 in City on Page A1 They lined up wearing cowboy hats and baseball caps. They came on bikes and in strollers, some using walkers and a few leaning on canes, and a bit of spring … 44

• Race, religion figure in GU hate studies conference

  April 3, 2011 in City on Page B1 Several high-profile experts in combating hate will address racism, violence based on religion and similar topics at a Gonzaga University-sponsored conference this week. The Second International Conference on Hate Studies … 7

• Brothers sentenced to probation, community service for racial harassment

  March 29, 2011 in City on Page A6 Two Coeur d’Alene brothers convicted of racially harassing a Puerto Rican man in August 2009 were sentenced Monday to two years supervised probation – including 300 hours of community service … 3

• Editorial: Bomb arrest underscores importance of vigilance

  March 10, 2011 in Opinion on Page A13 The Inland Northwest can be thankful that an arrest has been made in the case of the backpack bomb placed near the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route. It’s …

• Motion may delay Tankovich sentencing

  January 8, 2011 in City on Page B2 A Kootenai County judge on Friday heard motions for a new trial from two brothers convicted in October in a hate-crime trial. Judge John Luster didn’t rule Friday, but indicated …

• Juror conduct at issue in CdA hate-crime verdict

  January 7, 2011 in Idaho A Kootenai County judge on Friday said he’d never had an inquiry by a juror similar to one made during deliberations in an October hate-crime trial that has caused defense … 6

• Racist fliers posted along Coeur d’Alene highway

  June 30, 2010 in Idaho, News The Coeur d’Alene Police are looking for the men suspected of plastering telephone poles along U.S. Highway 95 with racist fliers on Tuesday. 9

• Racist graffiti drawn on street

  June 25, 2010 in City on Page A8 A retired police chief for the city of Coeur d’Alene awoke Wednesday morning to find a swastika and the words “white power” painted in the roadway outside his Hayden home. …

• Aryans seek new city

  February 25, 2010 in City on Page A1 An Aryan Nations member from Athol visited John Day, Ore., last week, making clear his plan to set up a headquarters compound in that rural town. “They just came by … 1

• Bigotry’s embers need constant monitoring

  February 10, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 “… the flames of Saturday night’s cross might be out, but the kind of needless hatred and bigotry they spread apparently isn’t going to be quickly snuffed.”

• Scourge of Hatred

    February 7, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A1 In a small house in Coeur d’Alene, 89-year-old Sid Rosen lives out his sunset years going through his life’s mementos. ■ Tucked away in a box, the World War II … 24

• Man reports race-based assault

  January 28, 2010 in City on Page A5 A man was racially harassed and assaulted shortly after midnight Saturday in Coeur d’Alene while walking home from the grocery store. The man told police that he was walking along … 1

• Vandalism of car in CdA follows racist epithets

  January 13, 2010 in City on Page A5 Someone early Friday spray-painted swastikas on a car outside the downtown Coeur d’Alene home of a woman who regularly has African-American friends visiting. In addition, about two weeks ago, some … 5

• NAACP leader urges action against racism

  October 1, 2009 in City on Page A1 Spokane Mayor Mary Verner quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and spoke of the city’s “long history” of standing against crimes based on race at a news conference Wednesday. City … 10

• North Idaho men cited for distributing racist fliers

  August 10, 2009 in Idaho Three men were cited for misdemeanors over the weekend after Coeur d’Alene residents found racists fliers in their yards. 4

• U.S. will boycott U.N. conference on racism

  April 19, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will boycott “with regret” a U.N. conference on racism this week over objectionable language in the meeting’s final document that could single out Israel for …

• Digging out the roots of hate

  March 25, 2009 in City on Page A5 This semester, Gonzaga University began offering what may be the only course of its kind in the country – an interdisciplinary class in hate studies. Five professors from different departments …

• Planned Parenthood unhurt by racism charge

  March 14, 2008 in City on Page B3 Planned Parenthood of Idaho has had no decline in donations or demand for health services in the wake of accusations that it encouraged a donation aimed at aborting black babies. …

• Racial remarks prompt new trial

  January 26, 2008 in City A Spokane County Superior Court judge has ordered a new trial in a medical malpractice case where a Spokane attorney of Japanese descent was repeatedly referred to as “Mr. Kamikaze” …

• Lawyer says Japanese heritage affected verdict

  January 15, 2008 in City The medical malpractice verdict in Spokane County Superior Court was read on Dec. 7, 2007 – Pearl Harbor Day.

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