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Hate Groups in the United States Have Grown as Trump Stokes the Flames, New Report Says
For the fourth straight year, hate groups in the United States have grown in number. Donald Trump used his campaign and continues to use his presidency to stoke the flames of white fear and resentment, and it shows, according to a new report. On Wednesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center released its yearly report that…
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Surprise, Surprise: Survey Reveals That American Students Are Not Being Adequately Taught About Slavery
Water is wet; also, a new survey from the Southern Poverty Law Center has drawn attention to the fact that students in the United States are not being taught the full truth about slavery, leaving them inadequately educated on the subject. Of course, anyone who knows anything about education in the United States is probably…
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Miss. Sued Over Unequal Education for Black Students
Mississippi is being hit with a lawsuit—accused of violating the federal law that allowed the state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War—because of what the lawsuit charges is the unequal education that black students receive. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed the lawsuit on behalf of four African-American mothers with children in public…
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Report: Hate Groups in the US Have Increased for 2nd Consecutive Year
The number of hate groups in the United States rose for the second year in a row in 2016, a result of the radical right being energized by the candidacy of Donald Trump, according to a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Anti-Muslim hate groups showed the most dramatic growth, nearly tripling…
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Houston Anchor Fired for Blaming Obama for Violence, Racism
A Houston news anchor was summarily dismissed for a Facebook post blaming President Barack Obama for racism, and—surprise!—praising Donald Trump. The Daily News reports that Scarlett Fakhar, 25, said she was fired Thursday from KRIV Fox 26 for expressing her “conservative views” on the social media platform. In what has to be the ironic statement…
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Hate Rising: Jorge Ramos Delves Deep Into Racial Hatred in America
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has been thinking a lot about hate recently. Ever since Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ejected the Mexican immigrant, who is also an American citizen, from a press conference in August 2015 with a dismissive “Go back to Univision,” the experience has been on his mind. “Just a few seconds later,…