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As part of an ongoing effort to protect the most vulnerable members of society, the Center has awarded a grant to help prevent more than 300,000 poor Tennesseans from losing health care.

American teachers innovate diversity education with funding from Teaching Tolerance.

After accusations of violating 'racial purity' and a drug bust, animosity between the neo-Nazi music giant's business partners seems to mark the end of Panzerfaust Records.

A survey of educators using the re-released America's Civil Rights Movement teaching kit finds the resource is having a positive classroom effect.

Joe McCutchen, head of a new 'mainstream' anti-immigration group, has often associated with the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens.

Mighty Times: The Children's March, the Center's latest film, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Short Subject category.

Two national conservative Christian groups are leading the charge against a new video promoting tolerance, alleging that the video's links to a Center tolerance pledge are part of a 'pro-homosexual agenda.'

The Louisiana Klan leader indicted for the murder of a woman who tried to quit his group coerced three of his sons to join the Klan and used threats of violence to keep members from leaving, according to an interview with his wife in the latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report, released today. The case has brought back troubling memories of a town where Klansmen fiercely resisted the civil rights movement.

After a recently settled class-action lawsuit, children held in Mississippi's brutal Columbia Training School will be allowed open access to legal assistance.

After a series of race-related incidents, Center co-founder Morris Dees traveled to Snohomish County, Wash., to help celebrate the birthday of Civil Rights Movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.