Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation. Founded in 1971.
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Garrett Hardin
Garrett Hardin was a prolific and controversial writer whose 1968 article “The Tragedy of the Commons” launched him onto the national stage as one of the intellectual leaders of the environmental movement.
Supreme Court to rule on workplace bias against gay and transgender employees
If federal law bans discrimination "because of sex," does that prohibit job bias against gay and transgender workers? The Supreme Court will decide.
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Few states protect LGBTQ+ people from employment discrimination. In fact, throughout the South, employers can fire — or refuse to hire — people because of their sexual orientation.
LGBTQ+ rights must be protected by law. #SCOTUS
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School vouchers foster segregation, fail to expand opportunities | Opinion
As in the past, school vouchers today are not expanding opportunities for all students; they are a tool of segregation, writes the president of the NAACP Florida State Conference.
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School vouchers masquerade as a way for individual students to have better opportunities but the reality is that the intensify segregation & ultimately distract from the fundamental problem: that every community needs good public schools.
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James Alex Fields Jr., Who Killed Heather Heyer at 'Unite the Right,' Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
The white supremacist sympathizer who plowed a car into a crowd and killed a woman after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to 29 federal hate crimes.
Four Things to Know About Next Week's 'Patriotism Over Socialism' Rally in Arizona
A U.S. congressman and the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party are both listed as speakers at an event that will also be attended by multiple hate groups.
Suspect in Church Burnings Influenced by 'Black Metal' Music, Police Say, But Not All Black Metal is the Same
Holden Matthews, the 21-year-old man accused of burning three historically black churches in Louisiana, was influenced by “black metal,” police say – a music genre sometimes tied to organized hate.
UNC police arrest pair accused of racist vandalism on campus
Both were charged with vandalism and ethnic intimidation.
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Racist vandalism was found on the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus, which has been a hotbed for protests and debate over Confederate memorabilia.
Police have arrested 2 suspects, 1 of whom may be affiliated with "Heirs to the Confederacy."
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Twitter locked me out of my account for reporting on extremists
Twitter temporarily suspended my account this week after I posted a tweet that opposed far-right extremism.
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Twitter has made noise about cleaning up its platform, but the same hateful voices continue to abuse it to promote their cruel views.
So why did they suspend one of our reporters, who covers extremism, instead of banning the people who spread it?
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Twitter banned one of our @Hatewatch writers for reporting the news about a series of recent hate incidents.
Twitter — the same platform that has given professional hate merchants a megaphone to promote a violent ideology of white supremacy.
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The Year in Hate and Extremism
The radical right was more successful in entering the political mainstream last year than in half a century. How did it happen?
Attacks by White Extremists Are Growing. So Are Their Connections.
A New York Times analysis identified more than 350 white extremist attacks in Europe, North America and Australia since 2011. Perpetrators of the deadliest attacks engaged with extremist content online.
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White supremacy is flourishing amid fears of immigration, shifting demographics and subsequent cultural changes.
We counted a 50% increase in the US during our annual census.
It's not just increasing, though: it's spreading.
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SPLC sues Trump administration for violating due process rights of immigrant children and their sponsors
J.E.C.M., a 14-year-old boy, fled from Honduras with a friend to escape persecution, including threats to his life.
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"We have over 10,000 children in custody right now because this administration is using them as bait. This deplorable, deliberate policy means that these children are languishing in detention for months at a time." — SPLC's Mary Bauer
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Bringing Back Birch
The John Birch Society, the conspiracist group exiled by the right a half century ago, is on the march and gaining influence
SPLC statement on judge’s order blocking Trump administration’s Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas
A federal judge today rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to require people who depend on Medicaid to work in exchange for health benefits in Kentucky and Arkansas.
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Kentucky and Arkansas both tried to require people who depend on Medicaid to work in exchange for health benefits. We sued — and won.
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Anti-LGBT Hate Group World Congress of Families to Convene in Verona
World Congress of Families (WCF), an anti-LGBT hate group and project of the like-minded International Organization for the Family (IOF), is holding its annual gathering in Verona, Italy, barely six months after the last one in Chisinau, Moldova.
Trump Cites Hate Group at Conservative Political Action Conference
At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on March 2, President Donald Trump cited a study by anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) claiming that “illegal aliens are incarcerated at three...
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Remember when the founder of FAIR – an anti-immigrant hate group – falsely claimed, “Immigrants don’t come all church-loving, freedom-loving, [and] God-fearing?”
President Trump cited one of the group’s studies at this year’s CPAC.
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Behind the gates of Stewart Detention Center
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"Leaving the immigrant prison, you notice the American flag, waving ironically beyond the barbwire. ... It’s crystal clear: Freedom and justice don’t happen for all, especially not for those behind these gates." #NoHumanIsIllegal
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'White Helmet' Attacker in Deandre Harris Beating Identified as Alek Rhyne Hyer of Gainesville, Florida
The identity of a man wearing a white helmet seen in video of the beating of Deandre Harris after the racist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been a mystery for nearly 18 months.
After New Zealand Shooting, Far-right, Racists Claim Victimhood, Hail Killer as Hero
Andrew Anglin found humor in the livestreamed video of a man in New Zealand storming into the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, then shooting and killing 49 people.
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White supremacist violence is not a laughing matter. Violence on the far-right is becoming more common as the number of hate groups in the US continues to rise, and as its rhetoric spreads around the world in online forums.
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New Zealand Terrorist Manifesto Influenced by Far-Right Online Ecosystem, Hatewatch Finds
Brenton Tarrant, the man accused of murdering 49 worshippers and injuring dozens of others in two New Zealand mosques Friday, posted a manifesto steeped in white supremacist propaganda and references to “white genocide,” a belief that white people...
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Remember how extremists chanted "Jews will not replace us?" during the deadly rally in #Charlottesville? The alleged killer in the #NewZealandMosqueShooting titled his manifesto “The Great Replacement" — far from the only extremist reference he made.
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