Department of Justice has advised the Southern Poverty Law Center that it will investigate discrimination against students with ... The U.S. Department of Justice has advised the Southern Poverty Law Center that it will investigate discrimination against ... The U.S. Department of Justice has advised the Southern Poverty Law Center that it will investigate discrimination against ... Department of Justice to Investigate Discrimination in Georgia Public Schools Following Southern Poverty Law Center Complaint. ...

The law was debated and passed by both houses of the Georgia Legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp, all in under seven hours. The legislation was passed despite state officials praising the recent elections for their integrity, safety and security. The lawsuit describes how the law violates voter protections under the 14th and 15th Amendments as well as Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. It also outlines how the "line warming" ban violates the First Amendment right to freedom of expression. The plaintiffs represented in the case include organizations whose get-out-the-vote activities will be negatively impacted by SB 202 and people most directly affected, such as Black voters, new citizens, religious communities and people with limited English proficiency. The plaintiffs include: the Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Georgia Muslim Voter Project, Women Watch Afrika, Latino Community Fund Georgia, The Arc of the United States, Georgia ...

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After finding that more than half of all states fail at teaching the civil rights movement to students, the SPLCs Teaching Tolerance project released a set of guidelines today to help states improve the teaching of this pivotal period of U.S. history.

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One person even said, Im all in for it, but I need a ride," Matt said. "Really? This is the great group that is going to start the revolution?". While in the minority, Matts was not the only voice expressing caution from the right.. "One of the great failings of our side is a seeming avoidance of learning from the past, or learning from our enemies," Bob Wright of the 1st Brigade, New Mexico Militia, told the Patriot-run blog Sipsey Street Irregulars. "Revolution is not going to spring whole from the desert floor in Nevada. If one were to judge from the angry posts on social media millions of patriots are just waiting to take a sack of beef jerky and Daddys 30.30 and rush off into full blown armed conflict with leviathan.". Speaking of lessons of the past, as militia members flock to the Bundy ranch about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, they might want to recall the name Linda Thompson.. Proclaiming herself "Acting Adjutant General" of the "Unorganized Militia of the United States," in ...

Idaho court records show that Patriot Front leader and founder Thomas Rousseau was granted a continuance Tuesday in his trial in Coeur dAlene, Idaho, after attorney Kinzo Mihara argued that the defense needs more time to process 4 terabytes of data the FBI has extracted from Patriot Front members phones.

Florida GOP Senate candidate Augustus Invictus views on race proved too extreme even for the American Guard, a group headed by Vinlanders Social Club founder Brien James.

Since at least 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials have blocked access to the ports of entry along the Southern border for people seeking asylum. The SPLC joined a class action lawsuit in 2018 as co-counsel to stop this unlawful conduct that imperils the lives of asylum seekers.. A second amended complaint was filed on Nov. 13, 2018, on behalf of the legal and humanitarian aid group Al Otro Lado and a class of individuals who sought or will seek access to the U.S. asylum process at ports of entry. It links high-level Trump administration officials to an official "Turnback Policy" that has unlawfully denied people access to the asylum process based on purported - but ultimately untrue - assertions that there is a lack of "capacity" to process them. This unlawful policy was designed to serve the Trump administrations stated goal of deterring Black and Brown migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.. The second amended complaint describes how CBP used lies, threats, ...

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Arrests of five Skinheads in the murder of a Sikh temple caretaker have sparked a debate on hate crime laws in Canada.

There will be a workshop on colloidal silver - a substance that many on the radical right believe is a cure for all kinds of ailments that the government has kept secret from the people. In fact, the substance has no known medical use and, if used with the frequency that some radicals do, turns human skin blue.. There will be seminars on Agenda 21, a United Nations sustainability plan that has no legal enforcement mechanisms or requirements, but that the radical right is convinced is a secret plot to impose socialism on the United States.. There will be representatives from the John Birch Society - a primary proponent of the Agenda 21 conspiracy theory, the idea that fluoridation of water is a Communist plot, and the charge that President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Communist agent. Also scheduled to attend are Sheriff Richard Mack, a long-time darling of the antigovernment "Patriot" movement who has been encouraging county sheriffs to resist federal gun laws, and Chuck Baldwin, a far-right ...

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A group of sheriffs associated with the extremist constitutional sheriff movement lent their support to the anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday to promote a

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The chairman of GAD, Republican operative Larry Ward, whos also the CEO of Political Media, even advertised the event on the apocalyptic, anti-gay, anti-Muslim and conspiracy-addled WorldNetDaily website. Ward decries the "liberal gun control crowd" that, according to him, "is using every trick in the book to try and stop us." One of those alleged tricks, according to Ward, is "to insinuate that our efforts to protect the Second Amendment are racist.". Thats funny, because as Media Matters noted this morning, GADs list of sponsors included American Third Position (A3P), a white nationalist political party. A3P was initially established in 2009 by racist skinheads in California. Attorney William "Bill" Johnson, one of the current leaders, was responsible for pushing the Pace Amendment in California in 1985, which called for the deportation of anyone with "any ascertainable trace of Negro blood." Kevin MacDonald, one of the other current leaders, is a professor of psychology at California State ...

Hatewatch reviewed new materials indicating that Charles Bausman, the pro-Kremlin propagandist who disappeared to Moscow in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, involved himself in the American white nationalist movement years before previously thought.. ...

Were working to restore the right to vote to returning citizens across the Deep South and ensure that their voices are not silenced by requirements to pay off court debt or other burdensome restoration procedures. Were working to expand access to the ballot for voters historically targeted and harmed by voter suppression efforts-voters of color, voters with disabilities, low-income, young, elderly, and transient voters-by fighting illegal voter purges, ensuring that ballots are counted, and protecting accessibility at polling places. Were fighting against onerous registration and strict ballot requirements designed to decrease voter participation and working to promote legislative and policy reforms that eliminate unnecessary and burdensome restrictions for all eligible electors.. ...

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An honor guard from the South Carolina Highway Patrol lowers the Confederate battle flag as it is removed from the Capitol grounds to the cheers of thousands, ending its 54-year presence there and marking a stunning political reversal in a state where many thought the rebel banner would fly indefinitely. AP Images/John ...

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The latest news from the opponents of health care reform who like to suggest that supporters should suffer for their transgressions: A day after two Virginia Tea Party activists posted the address of the brother of a congressman who voted for the bill, authorities discovered that someone had severed a gas line at the mans home.. According to The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Va., Danville Tea Party leader Nigel Coleman was one of the two people who posted the address of Bo Perriello, the older brother of U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Ivy), who voted for the health care bill. "This is Rep. Thomas Stuart Perriellos home address," Coleman wrote Monday, going on to suggest that others who oppose the health care bill "drop by" and "express their thanks." He added, "I aint holding back no more.". According to the Politico website, Coleman, upon learning he had posted the wrong address, said on a blog: "Do you mean I posted his brothers address on my Facebook? Oh well, collateral damage.". Told ...

As LGBT people continue making strides toward equality in the United States, hard-line U.S. religious-right groups that have spent decades demonizing them are focusing their attention - and propaganda - on a legal battle over the criminalization of LGBT sex in Belize, the outcome of which could affect criminal statutes in as many as a dozen other Caribbean countries, according

Dan Stein, the longtime president of anti-immigrant hate group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), published a letter to the editor this week in the Washington Post claiming that he never said something he actually did say in 1991.

Shasta County, California, supervisor Kevin Crye was served recall papers by a community group on Tuesday after he and two other far-right supervisors voted to terminate the countys contract with Dominion Voting Systems last month, and Crye subsequently traveled at Shasta Countys expense to meet MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for his view on the conduct of future elections in Shasta County.. ...

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