Foreign college students who paid thousands of dollars to spend their summer living and working in the United States as part of a federal cultural exchange program were exploited by a labor broker who used the program as a source of cheap labor for businesses in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, according to a federal complaint filed by the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½.
A poultry processing company in Guntersville, Alabama, ignored worker complaints about dangerous and unsanitary working conditions, ultimately firing two whistleblowers, according to ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ complaints filed with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
As the nation heads into the first presidential election since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, more than 500 people gathered in Minneapolis last night for a screening of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s voting rights documentary, .
Each year, the Southern Poverty Law Center, of which I am the president, compiles and publishes a census of domestic hate groups.Ìý
As I combed through the incident reports involving youthful offenders at Florida prisons, the horror stories emerged. On page after page, the words repeated:
The ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s Teaching Tolerance project recognized five teachers with the 2016 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching – a biennial award given to K-12 educators nationwide who excel at promoting respect and a passion for justice among students.
The Southern Poverty Law Center strongly condemns the possible inclusion of an anti-gay, conversion therapy plank in the Republican Party platform that will be adopted at the party’s convention next week.Ìý
A luxury golf resort in South Carolina will pay $2.3 million to resolve an ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ lawsuit filed on behalf of Jamaican guest workers who claimed they were systematically cheated out of their wages.
Mississippi is funding its charter schools through an unconstitutional scheme that diverts public tax dollars from traditional public schools, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
This week has been a hard one for all of us and a telling one for the country.
