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Teaching Tolerance funds fellowships designed to expand access to cutting-edge digital media training in cooperation with the Media Center of the American Press Institute.

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Supreme Court appeal of Glassroth v. Moore, the successful Ten Commandments case, was rejected today.

Richard Cohen has been named the Center's new president and CEO. Cohen served recently as the Center's general counsel and vice president for programs.

An advanced, unique data system helps the Center monitor hate.

Teaching Tolerance releases its new publication for higher ed, '10 Ways to Fight Hate on Campus.'

During the late 1990s, a former biker working undercover for the FBI infiltrated one of America's most dangerous hate groups and discovered a plot to assassinate SPLC founder Morris Dees.

In September, SPLC's Teaching Tolerance program will unveil a new documentary film and teaching kit, Viva la Causa, that focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights — the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and an alliance of civil rights groups have filed complaints against two of Florida's largest school districts, where students with disabilities endure a culture of neglect and harsh discipline that robs them of an education and pushes them along a path to incarceration.

 

A federal judge's ruling this week means that thousands of foreign guestworkers represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center will recover wages owed to them by one of the nation's largest forestry contractors.

A dozen Latino workers at a Tennessee cheese factory went weeks without pay and endured an abusive work environment before demanding paychecks from an employer, who then had them arrested, jailed and threatened with deportation.