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Educators calculate their risks in class as states escalate anti-DEI pressure
At Miami Norland Senior High School in Miami Gardens, Florida, Renee O’Connor continues to teach students about Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin and The 1619 Project in her African American history class. She does this despite the ban on teaching the Pulitzer Prize-winning reexamination of African American enslavement and legacy in the state’s public schools,…
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Jewish people must retain agency over their stories, identity and narratives
Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked in January, served as a solemn reminder of the necessity for marginalized groups, particularly Jewish people, to retain agency over their histories and narratives. During the Holocaust, the erasure of Jewish voices allowed external forces to dehumanize and distort their identities, culminating in systemic genocide. Today, as firsthand Holocaust testimonies transition…
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Head of Trump’s Immigration Plans Met Proud Boys Associate About Deportations
Content warning: This article contains graphic and racist language. Reader discretion is advised. The head of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, Tom Homan, appears to have met with an associate of the Proud Boys on at least four separate occasions. At least one of these instances was a private meeting held in Chicago after the…
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Black church’s win against Proud Boys offers hope in the fight against racism
I was proud to learn this week that the historically Black church where I was christened as a baby, where I attended Sunday school and where I received the spiritual foundation for my life had won a $2.8 million judgment against a racist hate group that attacked it. Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington,…
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Attacks on Bishop After Trump Confrontation Undermine ‘Religious Freedom’ Claims
Despite frequently using the cover of “religious freedom” to advance hard-right activism, extremist groups and politicians undermined this common tactic as they responded with verbal attacks against Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde after she confronted President Donald Trump in her sermon at the Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 21. The bishop asked the president to “have…
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Barnes v. Felix
After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit dismissed a case where a Texas county constable fatally shot an unarmed Black man, and after the man’s family appealed that dismissal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed an amicus brief in support of the man’s family. The amicus brief…
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Hate and Antigovernment Groups by Year
The SPLC has been tracking hate and antigovernment groups since 2000.
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Why is it wrong to teach students about diversity, equity and inclusion?
The college where I teach had always been very progressive. It encouraged faculty and staff to exercise freedom of speech and welcomed inclusive speakers, lessons and events. Texas Senate Bill 17 was passed in May 2023, and almost overnight things changed. This law, similar to ones in two of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s focus states…
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‘Heckler’s veto’ by City of Naples Leads to $30,000 Fee for Pride Permit
On Jan. 15, the Naples City Council in Florida voted to conditionally grant a permit to Naples Pride to host its annual event in the city’s Cambier Park, provided the group pays an estimated $30,000 police security fee and holds a planned drag performance indoors. During the meeting, city officials tied security costs to intensifying…
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Leader of Fringe Political Party Advocates Lynching to Stop LGBTQ+ Pride Event
Content warning: This article contains violent anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and praise for the practice of lynching. Reader discretion is advised. The leader of a fringe political party in Florida called the Jeffersonian Party appeared at a Naples City Council meeting on Jan. 13 to extol the history of lynching in the United States and claim “violence…
