Agreement reached in Mississippi juvenile detention case
Children and teens at a Mississippi juvenile detention center will no longer be locked in cells all day without reason or forced to sleep on the floor in a squalid, overcrowded facility following an agreement the Southern Poverty Law Center has reached in a federal lawsuit.
A new Southern Poverty Law Center report finds that low-income Latino immigrants in the South are routinely the targets of wage theft, racial profiling and other abuses driven by an anti-immigrant climate that harms all Latinos regardless of their immigration status.
Five black youths accused of beating a white high school student in Jena, La., amid racial tension sparked by nooses hung on the high school campus, have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor simple battery charges as part of an agreement to resolve a case that sparked a massive civil rights protest on their behalf.
The new issue of the Intelligence Report reveals a Louisiana town's history of racial tension following a recent Klan murder; a former undercover agent discusses his past with white supremacists; and experts discuss the link between hate speech and violence.
The latest issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine offers insights on coping with the economic downturn; a look at a student-led movement to end unequal school funding; and lesson plans to help you unpack the meaning of Barack Obama's historic speech on race.
