Posts Tagged Southern Poverty Law Center

Civil rights groups denounce NOM’s race-based strategy

By | 03.28.12 | 12:43 pm

Civil rights groups on Tuesday blasted a confidential memo by the National Organization for Marriage which outlined a strategy of pitting the gay community against the black and Latino communities in order to score points in the group’s efforts to ban marriage rights for same-sex couples.
“These documents expose NOM More…

‘Attrition through enforcement’ immigration policy already a reality, advocates say

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.07.12 | 4:54 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Immigration advocates said Monday that an “attrition through enforcement” immigration strategy is nothing new, and already interferes with the daily lives of undocumented and their families, including U.S.-born children. More…

AFTAH uses Penn State rape scandal as opportunity for anti-gay speech

By | 11.11.11 | 12:25 pm

The child molestation scandal at Penn State University has raised questions about the problems of idolizing successful college athletic programs to the point where university students feel justified in a violent demonstration More… in defense of a coach fired for keeping quiet about the alleged crimes of his former assistant coach,

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Florida education system a leader in teaching civil rights movement

By Marcos Restrepo | 10.07.11 | 10:16 am | More from The Florida Independent

“Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education 2011,” a Southern Poverty Law Center study, shows that most states fail when it comes to teaching the U.S. Civil Rights movement to students. Florida earned an A for its curriculum.

The study More… (.pdf) “examined state standards and curriculum requirements related to the

Anti-LGBT group launches campaign to keep gay people from donating blood

By | 08.09.11 | 5:19 pm

UPDATE: Aug. 10, 2011, 3:15 p.m., with a correction More…
Peter LaBarbera’s Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) last week launched a campaign to prevent gay men from donating blood. Keep the Gay Blood Ban (KGB²) was sparked, LaBarbera says, because of “renewed lobby efforts to open up the U.S. blood

New Orleans schools: A nexus of poverty, high expulsion rates, hyper-security and novice teachers

By | 07.21.11 | 3:45 pm

John, an eighth grader at the time, gives another student on school grounds a candy bar. He is spotted by a security guard and told he now faces suspension. Frightened, John runs, getting caught twice and slapped with handcuffs as many times, acquiring bruises along his wrists in the process. A More…

In Alabama, landlords who rent to undocumented could face felony charges

By | 06.20.11 | 2:32 pm

The new immigration enforcement law recently passed by the Alabama legislature and signed by Gov. Robert Bentley goes further than any state-level immigration enforcement law passed in the passed few years, including Arizona’s infamous SB 1070. One of the unprecedented provisions in the law makes it a crime to rent More…

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American Family Association Michigan won’t reject Fischer comments on Native Americans

By Todd A. Heywood | 02.10.11 | 12:23 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer penned a blog post titled “Native Americans morally disqualified themselves from the land.”

In that post Fischer argues that the domination of the North American continent was accomplished because of European morality. His thesis was:

The native American tribes at the time of the More…