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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 ...

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Why White Supremacists Have Embraced the War on Contraception

Keli Goff | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Contraception, Birth Control, Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, President Obama, Politics News

For some, the battle over birth control happens to align with a much bigger, long-term culture war. Not a culture war over religious freedom, as some would have you believe, but a war over the browning of America.

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Will The Changing Face Of The Nation Spur Hate Group Participation?

Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Video, Hate, Hate Groups, US Census Bureau, Elections 2012, Latino Population, Minority Population, Southern Poverty Law Center, Race, Slidepollajax, Milita Groups, Barack Obama, Latino Voices News

While the U.S. Census Bureau’s longtime prediction that the size of the country’s racial and ethnic groups will together surpass that of the non-H...

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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" ...

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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

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.

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Russell Pearce Distances Himself From Mass Shooting In Arizona

The Huffington Post | Elise Foley | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Arizona Shooting, Video, Arizona Immigration, JT Ready Shooting, Gilbert Shooting, Arizona, Southern Poverty Law Center, Border Vigilantes, Border Security, Minutemen, Russell Pearce, Russell Pearce Arizona Immigration Law, Jt Ready, Politics News

Ousted Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce (R) tried to distance himself on Wednesday from a former anti-unauthorized immigration ally J.T. Ready, who a...

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Republican Official's Organization Labeled A Hate Group

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Loudoun County Democrats, Girl Scouts, Lgbt, Virginia, Video, Loudoun County, Boy Scouts, Eugene Delgaudio Public Advocate, Eugene Delgaudio, Public Advocate of the U.S., Southern Poverty Law Center, Loudoun County Republicans, DC News

WASHINGTON -- A right-wing advocacy group headed by a Republican county supervisor in Northern Virginia has been designated a "hate group" by the Sou...

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White Nationalism: A Scourge That Won't Go Away

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Ed Schultz, White Nationalism, White Supremacists, Anti-Defamation League, Cpac 2012, Peter Brimelow, Kevin Macdonald, Sam Francis, Jared Taylor, Southern Poverty Law Center, Jonah Goldberg, Anti-Immigrant, Ed Schultz MSNBC, Politics News

So who, precisely, is Peter Brimelow, and why should the rest of us be concerned when a white nationalist racist like him appears at the same event as Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin?

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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...

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Number Of U.S. Hate Groups Is Rising

The New York Times | KIM SEVERSON | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, Mark Potok, Ku Klux Klan, Occupy Movement, Anti-Government Groups, Daryl Johnson, Politics News

Fed by antagonism toward President Obama, resentment toward changing racial demographics and the economic rift between rich and poor, the number of so...

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83-Year-Old Donates $25,000 After Watching Anti-Gay Bullying Film

Huffington Post | Janie Campbell | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Leonard Solomon Bullying, Gay Bullying, Video, Broward County School District, Anti-Defamation League, Leonard Solomon, Miami Impact, Leonard Solomon Donation, Bullied Film, Broward Sheriff's Office, Southern Poverty Law Center, Bullied: A Student a School and a Case That Made History, Anti-Gay Bullying, Impact, Miami News

When the Broward Sheriff's Office held a town hall-style screening of the anti-gay bullying documentary film 'Bullied: a Student, a School and a Case ...

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Opponents Of Alabama Immigration Law Seek Allies In Business Sector

HuffingtonPost.com | Anna Staver | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Alabama Honda, Gov. Robert Bentley, United Auto Workers, Honda, HB 56, Mercedes-Benz, Southern Poverty Law Center, Naacp, Alabama Mercedes-Benz, Alabama Immigration, Robert Bentley, Robert Bentley Immigration, Hyundai, Immigration Enforcement, National Council of La Raza, Alabama Immigration Law, Alabama Business Immigration, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Opponents of Alabama's contested immigration law are asking local manufacturers of Mercedes-Benz, Honda and Hyundai cars to help them pu...

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Alabama AG: Immigration Law Should Not Require Documents To Get Water, Home Or Parking

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Luther Strange, Video, Alabama, American Civil Liberties Union, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration, Undocumented Immigration, Alabama Immigration Law, Southern Poverty Law Center, Unauthorized Immigration, Alabama Mobile Homes, Alabama Water, Politics News

Alabama government workers should not inquire about residents' immigration status under the state's immigration law during certain "business transacti...

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Counterterrorism Czar Resists Muslim Labels, As Critics Say Right-Wing Threat Looms Larger

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Peter King, White Supremacists, Homeland Security, Islamic Extremists, Fbi, Southern Poverty Law Center, Department of Homeland Security, Video, Islamic Radicalism, Counterterrorism, Janet Napolitano, Neo-Nazis, Newt Gingrich, Nypd Spying, Dhs, Eco-Terrorism, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The federal government's point man working to counter homegrown violent extremism and defend communities from terrorist attacks isn't in...

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New SPLC Intelligence Report: The Rhetoric of War

Mark Potok | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Alipac, League of the South, Southern Poverty Law Center, Constitution Party, Intelligence Report, Patriot Groups, Hate Groups, Politics News

Something is happening on the radical right. Even as the presidential campaign season heats up and, with it, the possibility of ridding themselves of their hated black president, extremists are ratcheting up the rhetoric of war.

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Note to Alabama AG 'Big Luther': Stop Acting So Small

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Southern Poverty Law Center, Alabama Immigration Law, Justice Department, Civil Rights, Immigration Laws, Politics News

By threatening to obstruct the Justice Department's work, the Alabama attorney general is simply delaying evidence of this law's disgraceful impact from coming to light.

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Texas History Education Standards Slammed In New Report

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: History Education, Video, Education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, History Exam, National Assessment of Educational Progress, US History, Social Studies Faculty Collaborative, Southern Poverty Law Center, Texas Public Schools, US History Education, Texas Schools, Texas History Education, US History Exam, Education News

A recent report says Texas K-12 standards in history are inadequate, ineffective and "fail to meet the state's college readiness standards," and the r...

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Values Voter Summit -- Or Anti-LGBT Hate Fest?

Mark Potok | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Family Research Council, Bryan Fischer, LGBT Rights, Values Voter Summit, American Family Association, Hate Speech, Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, Politics News

Starting today, a number of prominent public figures will be attending and speaking at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of socially conservative activists in Washington. But just what kind of values are they promoting?

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Obama Administration Challenges Alabama Immigration Law In Court

AP | By BOB JOHNSON | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Alabama Immigration, Immigration Reform, Alabama, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Undocumented Immigration, Southern Poverty Law Center, Alabama Immigration Law, Anti-Immigrant Laws, Alabama Immigration Lawsuit, Politics News

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Lawyers for the federal government and for a coalition of civil rights groups asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a new ...

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As 9/11 Anniversary Approaches, a Call for Balance

Mark Potok | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Southern Poverty Law Center, Muslim Extremism, Anders Behring Breivik, Anti-Muslim, 9/11 Anniversary, Islamaphobia, Islamic Radicalism, American Radicals, Islamic Extremism, September 11 Anniversary, Politics News

The truth is that intelligence experts with far more integrity than Gingrich or others who have specialized in demonizing Muslims agree that homegrown jihadists now pose more of a direct threat to America than al Qaeda.

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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

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.

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Suburban Anti-Gay Group Wants To Keep Gay Blood Donor Ban

Posted 10.10.2011

Though the Naperville, Ill.-based anti-gay group Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) recently lost their 501(c)3, tax-exempt organizationa...

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Paper Planes!

Michael W. Waters | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Southern Poverty Law Center, Joy Tabernacle a.M.E. Church, Public Education, Zero Tolerance, Education News

An unexpected day's delay in recent airline travel provided an experiential backdrop that gave insight into the ineffectiveness of zero tolerance p...

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New Orleans Charter Schools Need to Respect Teachers' Experience, Students' Dignity

John Thompson | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: New Orleans Recovery School District, American Independent, Teach for America, Southern Poverty Law Center, New York City Charter Schools, Charter Schools, Texas School Discipline, Education News

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the New Orleans Recovery School District has reacted to "minor rule violations by forcibly handcuffing children to furniture, brutally slamming them, banishing them from their schools and cutting short their education."

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New Orleans Schools: A Nexus Of Poverty, High Expulsion Rates, Hyper-security And Novice Teachers

The American Independent | Mikhail Zinshteyn | Posted 09.22.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Youth Poverty, School Poverty, Impoverished Schools, Student Poverty, New Orleans Schools, School Security, Teachers, Southern Poverty Law Center, Education Reform, Education News

John, an eighth grader at the time, gives another student on school grounds a candy bar. He is spotted by a security guard and told he now faces suspe...

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