President Trump just can’t bring himself to unequivocally condemn and repudiate white supremacy and its modern-day equivalent, the “alt-right.”
President Trump just can’t bring himself to unequivocally condemn and repudiate white supremacy and its modern-day equivalent, the “alt-right.”
Hundreds of white supremacists are planning to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, today to protest the city council’s decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from a city park.
After the deadly clash between hundreds of white supremacists and counter-protesters today in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Trump called for Americans to “come together."
The day after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, Dylann Roof, a lone wolf, massacred nine African Americans at the historic “Mother Emanuel” church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The SPLC today filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting a judge’s decision that prevents Harris County, Texas from holding misdemeanor defendants in jail simply because they cannot afford bail.
With college students returning to class in the coming weeks, the SPLC released a new guide today that advises them on how to respond when speakers associated with the growing white nationalist, or “alt-right,” movement, appear on campus.
People awaiting trial before a criminal court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were coerced into paying hundreds of dollars to a company before they were released from jail – even after they had paid their bail, according to a federal lawsuit filed last night by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Louisiana.
Some judges at the Stewart Immigration Court in Georgia routinely break the rules of professional conduct and continue to violate the constitutional rights of detainees – failures that require action, including the possible removal of one judge from the bench, according to a complaint the SPLC lodged with the U.S. Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today.
Educators hoping to develop programs that fight bigotry in schools and create safe and welcoming classrooms for all students can apply for grants under a new program announced today by the SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance project.
Whether it’s a vicious white supremacist street gang, secessionists or violent black nationalists, law enforcement officers across the country are facing an array of extremist threats that are examined in the latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, released today.
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