Splc

Mississippi School District Agrees To Stop Handcuffing Students For Non-Crimes

AP | JEFF AMY | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Handcuffing, Southern Poverty Law Center, Students Handcuffed, Jackson Mississippi, Mississippi Schools, US Department of Education, Capital City Alternative School, Handcuffing Students, Handcuffs, Jackson Public Schools, Splc, Jeanette Murry, Education News

JACKSON, Miss. -- Jackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on ...

Read Whole Story

Virginia Republican: Obama's 'Evolution Comment Gives Evolutionists A Bad Name'

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Virginia, Video, Public Advocate of the United States, Hate Groups, Loudoun County, Eugene Delgaudio, Mitt Romney, Obama Gay Marriage, Southern Poverty Law Center, Splc, Barack Obama, DC News

WASHINGTON -- A Republican official in a suburban Northern Virginia county has moved beyond criticizing Florida pirate festivals for their "invasion" ...

Read Whole Story

Poison in America

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Hate Crimes, Trayvon Martin, Splc, Arizona, George Zimmerman, Southern Poverty Law Center, Arizona Anti-Immigration Law, Russell Pearce, J.T. Ready, Teaching Tolerance Program, Racial Profiling, Racial Politics, Hate Speech, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

The growth in hate groups and the use of their divisive and negative language in the mainstream political and media arena is cause for national alarm.

Read Post

D.C. Blogger Makes Misogyny Watch List

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Pick-Up Artists, Splc, Southern Poverty Law Center, Roosh v Misogynist, Bang, Video, Roosh V, Splc Roosh V, Reason Magazine, Roosh v Misogyny, Roosh v Bang, DC News

WASHINGTON -- When Washington City Paper caught up with Roosh Vörek -- Roosh V on the Internet -- in 2008, he was 29 years old, living in his dad's b...

Read Whole Story

Teaching in a Diverse America: It's the Relationships That Matter

Maureen Costello | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Edweek, Teaching Tolerance, Classrooms, Splc, Immigrants, Teachers, Awards, Teaching, Education News
Maureen Costello

Our nation continues to grow more diverse. It's especially apparent in our nation's classrooms where one out of four students are the children of im...

Read Post

Civil Rights Education 'Dismal' Across The Country

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: History Education, Civil Rights Movement, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Teaching Tolerance, White Supremacy, Splc, Teaching History, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Education, Civil Rights Lessons, Video, Education, Martin Luther King, Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights Schools, Common Core Standards, US History, Teaching Civil Rights, Rosa Parks, History Lessons, Souther Poverty Law Center, Education News

"Dismal." Likely not a word ever preferred in an educational setting, but the description the Southern Poverty Law Center found appropriate to ass...

Read Whole Story

A Hate Crimes Commander Laid To Rest in Suffolk, But Questions Remain

Ted Hesson | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Long Island, Hate Crimes, Steve Levy, Suffolk County Police Department, Marcelo Lucero, Department of Justice, Robert Reecks, Southern Poverty Law Center, Splc, Justice Department, Suffolk County, Long Island Wins, New York News
Ted Hesson

Robert Reecks will be remembered as an accomplished leader within the Suffolk police department. But Reecks also faced criticism for his handling of hate crimes; specifically those perpetrated against Latinos.

Read Post

Whoopi's White Noise Comes with a Study Guide

Maureen Costello | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Chicago, White Noise, Splc, Racism, Southern Poverty Law Center, Musicals, Prejudice, Teaching Tolerance, Whoopi Goldberg, Hate Crime, Education News
Maureen Costello

In less than two hours, Whoopi Goldberg's White Noise manages to entertain -- it's very well packaged, after all -- and provoke a lot of thought about the current racial environment.

Read Post

Weekly Diaspora: Why Arizona's Birthright Bill is Bad for the Economy

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Udall Center for Public Policy, Cuentame, Splc, Immigration, Hazleton, Southern Poverty Law Center, SLLI, Hate Crimes, Fair, Brave New Foundation, Center for American Progress, Immigration Reform, Anchor Baby, Campus Progress, Colorlines, Sb 1070, Brave New Films, State Legislators for Legal Immigration, New America Media, Brookings Institution, Anti-Choice, Birthright Citizenship, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Economy, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Arizona lawmakers are expected to introduce an "anchor baby" bill today that would deny birthright ...

Read Post

Denial Is Not An Effective Anti-Bullying Program

Maureen Costello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Seth Walsh, Splc, LGBT Issues, Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Gay Bullying, Teaching Tolerance, Gay Bullying, Bullying, School Bullying, Education News
Maureen Costello

The suicides of boys tormented by anti-gay harassment grabbed the public's attention this fall. For every tragic and unnecessary case that makes it to the news, there are others we don't hear about.

Read Post

What To Do About the Civil War?

Maureen Costello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Civil War, American History, Confederate History Month, Slavery, Teaching Tolerance, New York Times, Southern Poverty Law Center, Splc, Education News
Maureen Costello

Warning to teachers: We have four years ahead in which our students will be bombarded by lies, omissions and wishful thinking about the Civil War. Our job is to tell them the truth.

Read Post

The Failure of Cable News to Follow Up

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hate Group, Msnbc, Fox News, Lgbt, American Academy of Pediatrics, Hardball With Chris Matthews, Family Research Concil, Splc, Gay, Southern Poverty Law Center, American College of Pediatricians, Tony Perkins, George Rekers, Fox News Channel, Media News
Wayne Besen

f the cable networks insist on setting the stage for those who tell whoppers, such as the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, the least they can do is carve out time the following evening to correct the mistruths.

Read Post

Bullying is a Civil Rights Issue

Maureen Costello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: It Gets Better Project, Department of Education, Bullying, LGBT Rights, Splc, Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Gay Bullying, Teaching Tolerance, Civil Rights, Education News
Maureen Costello

Bullying is not just confined to a few bad apples. Half of high school students surveyed admitted to having bullied someone during the past year.

Read Post

Apology for Vilifying One Man, Yet No Apology for Killing 1.5 Million

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guenter Lewy, Turkey, Defamation, Armenian Genocide, Taldf, Alabama, Turkish Penal Code, Tca, Libel, University of Utah Press, Revisionist Historian, Splc, Article 301, World News
Harut Sassounian

In 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published an exposé of the Turkish government's efforts to pressure U.S. politicians and academics to deny the facts of the Armenian genocide.

Read Post

Gay Student Suicides and the Need for Empathy

Maureen Costello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Education, Bullying, Teaching Tolerance, Sexual Orientation, Suicide, Southern Poverty Law Center, Splc, Schools, Anti-Gay Bullying, Tyler Clementi, Impact News
Maureen Costello

A few months ago, researchers issued a study reporting that today's college students display significantly less empathy than their peers from 30 years ago. I did not want to believe the study. But I wonder.

Read Post

College Media Censorship: Year in Review

Dan Reimold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spj, Ohio State University, James Madison University, College, Towson Towerlight, Towson University, Newspaper, Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, News Media, Splc, Media, Higher Education, Censorship, Journalism, X-Men, College News
Dan Reimold

College media censorship has a lot in common with Mystique. The mutant supervillain associated with the X-Men is best known for her duplicitous shape-shifting aimed at doing harm.

Read Post

The "I Hate Everything" Crowd

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bomb, Pap Attack, Terry Nichols, Irs, Oklahoma City, Protest, Taxes, Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire, Splc, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Sovereign Citizen, Southern Poverty Law Center, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

When "anti-everything" oddballs fly their suicide planes into tax offices, that emboldens the next "anti" nut to grab his rifle and grasp onto the philosophies of groups like "Sovereign Citizens."

Read Post

Senator Scott Brown On Austin Terror Attack: "People Are Frustrated"

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lcmedia, Tea Party, Senator Brown, Joseph Stack, Austin Pilot Suicide Note, Plane Crash, Splc, Southern Poverty Law Center, Joe Stack Suicide Note, Joe Stack Pilot, Home News, Suicide Note Austin, Irs, Joe Stack Plane Crash, Tax Law, Joe Stack Suicide, Bill Lichtenstein, Mark Potok, Plane Crash Austin, Joseph Stack Suicide Note, Business News, Joe Stack Statement, Scott Brown, Austin Plane Crash, Joeseph Stack, Terrorism, Joe Stack, Joe Stack Austin Texas, Stack Suicide Note, Joseph Andrew Stack, Stack Manifesto, Right Wing Extremists, Austin Plane, Fox, Cavuto, Sarah Palin, Neal Cavuto, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Bill Lichtenstein

In what Fox News is calling his first national TV interview since being elected, Scott Brown pointed to the public's frustration with Washington when he was asked about Joe Stack.

Read Post

Guilt by Association: The Southern Poverty Law Center Hurls a Punch

Carol M. Swain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Renaissance, White Nationalism, Craig Bodeker, Lou Dobbs, White Supremacists, Southern Poverty Law Center, Carol M. Swain, Racism, Splc, Steve Levy, Race, Political Correctness, Race Relations, Vdare, Politics News
Carol M. Swain

A few days ago, I received a notice from a friend informing me that the Southern Poverty Law Center had included me in this week's HateWatch. I linke...

Read Post

DC or Bust: Lou Dobbs and His Hate Groupies

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthers, Undocumented Immigrants, Birther-Movement, Illegal Immigration, Lou Dobbs, Splc, Immigration, Southern Poverty Law Center, John Tanton, Dan Stein, Fair, The Lou Dobbs Show, Immigration Reform, Obama Birth Certificate, Cnn, Hate Groups, Neo-Nazis, Illegal Immigrants, Jon Klein, Lou Dobbs Tonight, Pioneer Fund, Eugenics, Jonathan Klein, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Media News
Karl Frisch

If Dobbs won't end his association with FAIR, which the Southern Policy Law Center has designated as a hate group, CNN should do the right thing and end its association with Dobbs.

Read Post

Mediocre Grade for the Southern Poverty Law Center's Latest Report

Carol M. Swain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Splc, White Supremacy, Hate Crimes, Southern Poverty Law Center, Race Relations, Hate Groups, Black Nationalism, White Nationalism, Civil Rights, Politics News
Carol M. Swain

Instead of providing readers with a systematic analysis and hard data supporting its warning about a growing threat, the SPLC's report was chocked full of vague generalities and unnamed sources.

Read Post

Media Matters To Run Ads Attacking Lou Dobbs' Birther Obsession -- On CNN!

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthers, Dobbs, Birthers Conspiracy, Media Matters, Cnn, Birther Conspiracy, Lou Dobbs, Jon Klein, Right Wing Conspiracy Theories, Splc, Media News, Southern Poverty Law Center, Video, Media News

It looks like CNN president John Klein's laissez faire attitude about Lou Dobbs "birther" obsession is about to be tested. Yesterday we noted that CN...

Read Whole Story

O'Reilly May Host Dobbs For "Birther" Discussion (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthers Conspiracy, Cnn, Media Matters, Splc, Lou Dobbs, Birther Conspiracy, Jon Klein, Birthers, Media News, Southern Poverty Law Center, Right Wing Conspiracy Theories, Dobbs, Color of Change, Video, Media News

Last Tuesday, CNN host Lou Dobbs, became a focal point of the "birthers" brouhaha, when he hypothesized on his radio show that Obama may not be a pro...

Read Whole Story

The Spurn Of The Native

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Mike Castle, News, Morning Joe, Obama Birthers, Splc, G. Gordon Liddy, James Carville, Fox, Southern Poverty Law Center, Michelle Malkin, Joe Scarborough, Larry King, Richard Nixon, Liz Cheney, Representative Mike Castle, Jonathan Klein, Jeffrey Toobin, J. Richard Cohen, Birthers, Bill Clinton, Birther-Movement, Oliver Stone, President Barack Obama, Politics, Lou Dobbs, Barack Obama, Obama Birth Certificate, Cnn, Castle Video, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Michelle Schweiger Schecter

Did you catch Liz Cheney on Larry live?/Allowing the birthers' claims to thrive/Carville, quite exasperated on Mr. King/Telling us this is, indeed, a very "nutty thing".

Read Post

Major Civil Rights Group Demands CNN Remove Lou Dobbs From The Air

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthers, Dobbs, Birthers Conspiracy, Media Matters, Cnn, Birther Conspiracy, Right Wing Conspiracy Theories, Jon Klein, Lou Dobbs, Splc, Southern Poverty Law Center, Media News

UPDATE 2:30 PM, July 25 MSNBC president Phil Griffin called the claim that President Obama is a foreigner, which has received significant media cover...

Read Whole Story