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Wall Street analyst to walk from DC to NYC to promote corporate equity measures
Cid Wilson is no Che Guevara. A longtime top Wall Street analyst with a wide network of contacts in the financial sector, Wilson, the president and CEO of the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR), is generally more comfortable fighting his battles in boardrooms than on the streets. But since Sept. 17, when he set…
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Nancy Tray, et al. v. Florida State Board of Education, et al.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and its partners filed a lawsuit on behalf of parents of public school students facing discrimination under a state law that fails to provide them with a process for appealing decisions banning books from school libraries despite providing an appeals process for parents seeking such bans. This unequal law was…
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Teachers sue Georgia school district over restrictions on inclusive education
As conservative politicians across the nation step up their assault on any discussion of Black history, gender norms and identity in public schools, Katie Rinderle – a beloved elementary school teacher in Cobb County, Georgia – remains the first teacher to be fired under county policies adopted in the wake of Georgia’s trio of classroom…
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Rinderle, et al., v. Cobb County School District, et al.
Katie Rinderle, a fifth-grade gifted specialist in the Cobb County School District in Georgia, was fired from her teaching job in 2023 for reading to her class My Shadow is Purple, an age-appropriate picture book about self-acceptance and navigating gender stereotypes. In response, Rinderle and other educators are suing the Cobb County School District for…
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- LGBTQ Rights
Wood, et al. v. Florida Department of Education, et al.
After a Florida law blocked transgender and nonbinary teachers from using the pronouns and titles that best express themselves, the Southern Poverty Law Center and its partners filed a lawsuit on behalf of three teachers challenging the anti-LGBTQ+ statute. The lawsuit describes how the ban, also known as Subsection 3, unlawfully discriminates on the basis…
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Assault on Inclusive Education and How We’re Fighting Back
Returning to the Schoolhouse Steps, Extremist Groups’ Reactionary Anti-Student Inclusion Efforts By Maya Henson Carey A group of Southern women are standing outside of a school, protesting changes while yelling derogations and obscenities at a child they do not want to attend the school. The only so-called threat this child poses is that, in one…
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Fighting Extremism Online: New resources help parents combat radicalization of youth on the web
New tools to help parents and other caregivers protect vulnerable young people from being radicalized by extremist propaganda online were released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center and American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL). The organizations released the new web resources in addition to updates to their 2020 guide, Building…
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Special Topics in Online Youth Radicalization
While extremism and radicalization follow many predictable patterns, there are countless variations among extremist movements. Understanding the unique characteristics of different extremist ideologies helps us spot them and then intervene effectively. PERIL and SPLC will continue to expand its work to offer detailed, targeted information about these different tendencies. Male Supremacist Extremism & Gender-Based Violence…
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Coaches’ & Mentors’ Supplement
People who work with youth outside of the classroom provide an important link between children and their parents and caregivers. Coaches, youth group leaders, and mentors occupy a unique position of trust and responsibility in the development of young people’s character and role in the community. This supplement to the Parents & Caregivers Guide offers…
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Counselors’ Supplement
There are few established approaches to treating extremism from a mental health perspective. This short supplement to the Parents & Caregivers Guide presents strategies for mental health workers to address radicalization in their practice. By drawing on established treatments for other maladaptive behaviors, and from the empirical literature of radicalization, it offers mental health practitioners…
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