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21st Century Green-Book Project
[edit]The 21st Century Green-Book
[edit]The 21st Century Green-Book Project is an effort to re-imagine the Jim Crow Era Negro Motorist Green-Book, created by Victor Hugo Green, to expand its scope to address the impact of hate crimes on all communities. The 21st Century Green-Book Project's scope includes the entire range of bias crime impacted communities through a one stop website to promote bias crime education, and provide victims with access to portals hosted by federal, state, local law enforcement and civil society hosted web portals dedicated to combating bias crimes and incidents.
United States
[edit]Under U.S. Federal Law Hate or Bias Crimes are prosecuted. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division defines hate crimes as “acts of violence or threats of violence motivated by bias based on statutorily-protected characteristics. This includes acts of physical harm and specific criminal threats
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division defines hate crimes as “acts of violence or threats of violence motivated by bias based on statutorily protected characteristics. This includes acts of physical harm and specific criminal threats motivated by animus based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.”
The FBI annually produces a report on bias crimes in the United States from voluntary reports from local law enforcement agencies. The number of bias crimes reported annually range from just over 11,000 to around 20,000 incidents. The FBI Hate Crime Statistics for 2023 number only 11,447 incidents involving 13,857 victims. There are statues that address federal jurisdiction over hate crimes. Federal Hate crimes include violent acts or threats of violence that are motivated by bias based on a person's race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, or national origin.
The federal statutes and state laws that govern prosecutions of hate crimes has little effect if hate crimes go un reported. An article by the Washington Post on April 15, 2014, reported that 200,000 to 300,000 hate or bias crimes go unreported each year. That same year the FBI reported 5,462 single-bias incidents that involved 6,385 offenses, 6,681 victims, and 5,176 known offenders. The situation is not improving, on January 1, 2023, NPR reported that FBI's statistics on hate crimes across the country are flawed The numbers on bias crimes are consistently under reported since statistics were first collected in 1996. The reason for under reporting according to Jacob Kaplan, a researcher at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs, may be a lack of awareness that a crime has been committed.
Pilot Test: Baltimore and Houston
[edit]The 21st Century Green-Book Project launched a We the People Initiative on Juneteenth 2025, to pilot test of the bias crime reporting portal through Labor Day 2025.
The initiative is founded on the belief that impacted communities cannot wait to be saved—they must take responsibility for restoring the Golden Rule through micro-engagements that shift daily interactions from passive to proactive efforts sustaining peace. By fostering justice, empathy, and inclusivity, individuals can turn small acts into larger movements, reshaping how communities address bias crimes.
This effort is based on the words of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, which says: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The initiative seeks to align with local community partners that have the mission to combating bias and bias crimes in their communities.
Future Plans
[edit]The 21st Century Green-Book plans to expand the bias crime incident reporting options to all communities throughout the United States starting at the end of 2025 through 2026 with the help of local, state, and federal partners.
This big tent approach is intended to stay above competing interests and focus solely on the needs of victims and impacted communities.
The Problem
[edit]According to Eaven Holder, there are 200,000 to 300,000 hate crime incidents in a given year and the FBI data records less than 10,000 of them.
The 21st Century Green-Book Project is a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about bias and bias crimes with a focus on increasing understanding about its impact on the economy. Bias in public spaces has a chilling effect freedom of movement, association, travel, and commerce. The challenge is gaining insight into this impact of bias with incomplete data on the incidence of bias.
The first step in addressing bias in public policy and commercial decision making is to see it. Policymakers, advocates, and those who are targets of bias need information to decrease incidents and improve safety.
The 21st Century Green-Book Project has created a portal that supports bias crime education and provides a one stop web resource to access a range of bias crime reporting websites.