Jury awards $2.5 million in case of teen beaten by Klansmen
The Southern Poverty Law Center won a crushing jury verdict against one of the nation's largest Klan groups for its role in the brutal beating of a teenager at a county fair in rural Kentucky.
The Southern Poverty Law Center recently called for the state of Mississippi to abandon the use of the Oakley Training School, a state youth prison, which has made virtually no progress in ensuring that children held there are safe and receiving effective suicide prevention and mental health treatment.
More than 4 million students across the country challenged social and racial boundaries as part of the seventh annual Mix It Up at Lunch Day, a project designed to foster respect and understanding in schools and communities.
In the new issue of the Intelligence Report, the racist fringe of the growing black Hebrew Israelite movement is explored; anti-Semitism spreads on college campuses; the American Legion releases an anti-immigration booklet replete with xenophobic falsehoods; and a religious movement known as Joel's Army breaks from mainline Pentecostal churches to embrace a militant theocratic ideology.
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Teaching Tolerance features exclusive essays by John McCain and Barack Obama urging today's students to get involved in their communities.
Order now: The new Teaching Tolerance kit, Viva la Causa, focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights — the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s.
