Hosted by the Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate in association with the Center, a Spokane conference took crucial steps toward establishing the academic field of hate studies. Center co-founder Morris Dees attended and gave a keynote address.
Montgomery activist Johnnie Carr, who has worked for civil rights for a half-century, was honored with the third Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award March 18, sponsored by the Center and Troy State University Montgomery.
Racial slurs motivate a teacher to create a tolerance program funded by a Center grant.
Center co-founder Morris Dees speaks at a conference hosted by the Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate, which will help establish the field of Hate Studies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Center.
A group of U.S. senators visited the Civil Rights Memorial Feb. 13 as part a three-day tour of southern sites important to the Civil Rights Movementof the 1950s and 1960s.
A five-minute feature about tolerance sponsored by the Center will air on public television stations across the country.
To celebrate and expand our awareness of black history (and not just during Black History Month), the Center's Tolerance.org project publishes a series on little-known African American contributions to American history.
In a statement on behalf of the Center, Tolerance.org outreach associate Brandon Wilson says the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign should retire its racist mascot, Chief Illiniwek, because 'it is required by law and it is the right thing to do.'
Morris Dees, Center co-founder, writes an eloquent candidate statement expressing his hope that Club members will 'save the Sierra Club from a takeover by the radical right.'
The Center's Gaddis v. Campbell suit, filed to help diabetic inmates in Alabama prisons receive adequate medical care, has been settled, creating a precedent for in-prison diabetes care.
