Hate Crimes in U.S. Mostly Target Blacks ; Fbi Report Finds Slight Rise in Racial Bias

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WASHINGTON - Racial prejudice, most often directed at black people, was behind more than half of the nation's 7,400 reported hate-crime incidents in 2003, the FBI says.

Reports of hate crimes motivated by anti-black bias totaled 2,548 in 2003, more than double the total hate crimes against all other racial groups. There were 3,150 black victims in these reports, including four who were murdered, according to the annual FBI figures.

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Hate Crimes in U.S. Mostly Target Blacks ; Fbi Report Finds Slight Rise in Racial Bias

The overall total of 7,489 hate-crime incidents reported in 2003 was slightly above t...

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