SPLC President Richard Cohen testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about the responsibility of universities to uphold the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the First Amendment.
SPLC President Richard Cohen testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about the responsibility of universities to uphold the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the First Amendment.
A group of conservative African American clergy held a press conference October 23 on the steps of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., to launch a campaign in support of an anti-LGBT hate group’s pending legal case before the Supreme Court.
On October 20, 2017 President Donald Trump gave the public a good reminder about the cautionary spirit implied by “lies, damned lies and statistics,” when he carelessly linked the rise of reported crime in parts of the United Kingdom to “Islamic terrorism.”
The U.S. Department of Education recently rescinded 72 guidance documents that were designed to help parents, educators and advocates understand how federal law protects services and accommodations for students with disabilities.
As America continues to process the aftermath of white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, the nation’s premiere law enforcement agency appears to be focused on yet another emerging terrorist threat — Black Identity Extremists, or BIE.
Vast majority of most crimes are committed by a person of the same race as the victim, Bureau of Justice Statistics reports.
Last week, from Thursday, October 13 through Saturday, October 15 the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council put on its annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC., A prime networking event for the Christian right where anti-LGBT and anti-Muslim rhetoric is rife, this year’s summit welcomed its first sitting president as a speaker, Donald Trump.
Elord Revolte died a tragic death in Florida’s juvenile justice system after he tried to get a carton of milk without permission.
As expected, the annual “Values Voter Summit” in Washington this past weekend featured a rogue’s gallery of far-right extremists. But something extraordinary happened this year.
Since March 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has tracked 329 flyering incidents on 241 different college campuses across the United States, a number that continues to grow.
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