Less than one month after the Union Army declared victory in 1865, Black soldiers, alongside Black people freed from slavery, reburied the bodies of Union soldiers who were dishonorably placed into a mass grave in Charleston, South Carolina. These Black …
Anyone looking for the perfect model of urban blight need only look at the Black neighborhoods of Jacksonville, Florida. Roads and sidewalks – if they are even there – need repairs. School buildings are old. Housing is decrepit. But after a century and a …
WASHINGTON — Today, as first reported by The Hill, a coalition of prominent civil rights organizations sent a letter to the Biden administration calling on President Joe Biden to take all actions within his authority to protect undocumented immigrants — …
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) petitioned the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings for a due process hearing on behalf of a five-year-old student with multiple disabilities who continues to be denied services in …
The VDARE Foundation, a nonprofit based in New York that leading white nationalist activist Peter Brimelow founded in 2008, purchased the castle for $1.4 million in February 2020. The foundation serves as an umbrella organization for VDARE’s website, which …
Two years ago, I sat in the East Room of the White House and watched as President Joe Biden signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act into law. Asian American legislators from both chambers stood beside him for the occasion — one that was both historic and …
Nine years ago, on May 23, 2014, the 22-year-old Isla Vista, California, shooter declared “war on women” and shared a sinister message with the world: “I cannot kill every single female on earth, but I can deliver a devastating blow that will shake all of …
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate made history today by confirming Nancy Abudu to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Abudu is now the first African American woman, second woman of color, and only the third African American from Georgia to …
It may be too soon to call what is happening in the town of Eatonville, Florida, these days a renaissance. But six months after the proud hamlet was imperiled by a development proposal that would have paved over its legacy, it is fair to say that one of …
WASHINGTON — Voting and civil rights groups filed an emergency preliminary injunction motion seeking to lift restrictions in Georgia’s anti-voter law, S.B. 202, that target voters with disabilities. These S.B 202 provisions violate the Americans with …
It was on Saturdays, in the basement of a small townhouse near her childhood home, that Nancy Abudu got her first lessons in the power of standing up for her beliefs. There, Abudu’s father, an immigrant from Ghana struggling to raise two daughters alone in …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Selma Mayor George P. Evans passed away on Monday, May 15. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reflects on Mr. Evans’ legacy of community and public service. “George Evans was one of those rare individuals who tirelessly served …
Versión española abajo. / Ayisyen vèsyon kreyòl anba a. WASHINGTON — Today, the migrant expulsion policy issued under Title 42, originally adopted by the Trump administration to turn away people seeking asylum at the border, comes to an end and the United …
On May 14, 2022, a gunman carried out a horrific, racist attack on the Black community, killing 10 people and wounding three others at a Tops Friendly Markets grocery store in east Buffalo, New York. The gunman left behind an online screed suggesting the …
Devon Arthurs, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and three counts of kidnapping on May 8, the same day that he was set to appear in a Tampa, Florida-area court for his involvement in the 2017 slayings of his fellow Atomwaffen …
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Today, local voting rights groups, Jacksonville residents and the Jacksonville City Council agreed to continue using maps ordered by a federal court that provide fair representation to Black communities through the next redistricting …
The single biggest beneficiary was antigovernment extremist Ammon Bundy’s People’s Rights Network (PRN), which received transfers worth $93,000. Hatewatch was first alerted to the cryptocurrency donations to PRN by the Institute for Research and Education …
(in English, Spanish and Arabic) JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) submitted an administrative complaint with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice seeking federal intervention to address pervasive …
Garcia, 33, whom police shot and killed at the scene of the massacre he perpetrated, posted to the Russian site Odnoklassniki, or ok.ru, handwritten material indicating that he read The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website. He also made repeated references …
According to cloud storage provider Dropbox, 4 terabytes of storage is enough to hold 1 million 12-megapixel photos, 1,000 hours of high-definition video, or 26 million documents – or 5,200 filing cabinets full of paper. Rousseau had been due to make a pre …
