Migrant workers who flocked to New Orleans to rebuild the city after Hurricane Katrina were routinely cheated out of wages and faced other abuses while the U.S. Department of Labor made little effort to police the contractors employing them, a Southern Poverty Law Center attorney told a House subcommittee today.
Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee disappeared from Franklin County, Miss., in 1964. Forty-three years later, an ex-Klansman from Mississippi was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of the two
19-year-olds.
SPLC president Richard Cohen recently testified in Washington D.C. in support of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act to bring attention to the unsolved murders of the civil rights era.
Thousands of foreign guestworkers are lured to the United States each year with false promises only to be systematically exploited in a program that many describe as modern-day slavery. Join us in speaking out against this moral outrage.
Teaching Tolerance presents Beyond the Golden Rule, a new handbook to help parents address the difficult issues of bias, stereotypes and racism their children face in an increasingly diverse culture.
The number of hate groups grows, capping a 40% increase since 2000. Much of this growth has been driven by the immigration issue.
Also in this issue: A growing number of powerful African-American pastors are speaking out in often vicious terms against homosexuals; a university professor pumps out anti-Semitic 'scholarship'; and Arizona rancher and anti-immigrant icon Roger Barnett goes to court for terrorizing U.S. citizens.