http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Southern_Poverty_Law_CenterFind stories, videos, and photos about Southern Poverty Law Center from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:40:13 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Southern Poverty Law Center from CNN.com.http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/23/granderson.palin.race/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/23/granderson.palin.race/index.html#cnnSTCTextSarah Palin's book tour came through my city the other day and I scooted over to the mall, looking to get an autograph and a handshake.Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:55:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/06/new.york.latino.discrimination/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/06/new.york.latino.discrimination/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Justice Department and federal prosecutors will investigate allegations of discrimination against Latinos by police in Suffolk County, New York, officials said.Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:36:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/02/latino.newyork/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/02/latino.newyork/index.html#cnnSTCTextLatino immigrants living in Suffolk County, New York, have been living in an environment of intolerance and attacks against them, a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center said.Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:12:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/24/arkansas.evangelist.trial/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/24/arkansas.evangelist.trial/index.html#cnnSTCTextA jury in Arkansas convicted evangelist Tony Alamo on Friday of 10 federal counts of taking minors across state lines for sex, according to the court in the Western District in Arkansas.Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:31:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/11/navarrette.hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/11/navarrette.hate.crimes/index.html#cnnSTCTextTo think there are some people who still argue that the law shouldn't categorize some offenses as hate crimes and allow for enhanced criminal penalties.Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:48:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/11/hate.groups/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/11/hate.groups/index.html#cnnSTCTextHate groups have intensified their rhetoric in recent months, but this new energy hasn't necessarily translated to an increase in the rate of hate crimes in the U.S., according to some researchers.Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:48:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/22/latino.abuse/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/22/latino.abuse/index.html#cnnSTCTextLow-income Latinos are routinely discriminated against in the South, a new report says, but the study's author and others say the problem exists nationwide, with millions of Spanish-speaking immigrants living "beyond the protection of the law."Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/26/hate.groups.report/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/26/hate.groups.report/index.html#cnnSTCTextDon Black said he despises Barack Obama. And he said he believes illegal aliens undermine the economic fabric of the United States.Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:34:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/16/obama.white.supremacists/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/16/obama.white.supremacists/index.html#cnnSTCTextHate crimes experts and law enforcement officials are closely watching white supremacists across the country as Barack Obama prepares next week to be sworn in as the first black president of the United States.Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:44:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan.sued.verdict/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan.sued.verdict/index.html#cnnSTCTextA jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because the Klansmen mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:02:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan.slaying/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan.slaying/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe suspect in the shooting of a woman killed during a Ku Klux Klan initiation has at least a seven-year history of Klan activity, according to an organization that tracks hate groups nationwide.Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:38:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/12/klan.slaying/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/12/klan.slaying/index.html#cnnSTCTextAuthorities say they confiscated documents related to the Ku Klux Klan from the Louisiana home of a man accused of killing a woman who tried to join the group.Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:12:00 ESThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1843395,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1843395,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsOfficials are investigating the possible sexual abuse of minors at a 15-acre evangelical compound run by a convicted tax evader whom critics describe as a cult leaderMon, 22 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/01/nooses/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/01/nooses/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe media spotlight might have shone most intensely on Jena, Louisiana, but a symbol of racial violence has been hung across America lately, spurring anger, resentment and a big question. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:26:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/29/Dobbs.May30/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/29/Dobbs.May30/index.htmlI've been, over the years, because of our reporting on controversial issues and my strongly held beliefs on those issues, attacked, and usually pretty vigorously, by both the left wing and the right wing of this nation's media, both mainstream and otherwise, and of course the politicians that form the extremes of our political spectrum.Tue, 29 May 2007 19:28:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/12/navarrette/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/12/navarrette/index.htmlWhen Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist sent me an angry e-mail calling me a racist a while back, I shrugged it off as a pot-kettle thing.Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:03:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/22/guestworker.tm/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/22/guestworker.tm/index.htmlGeorge W. Bush's insistence on a new guest-worker program as part of any immigration reform has infuriated many conservatives, but it is also sounding alarm bells among some immigrant-rights advocates. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) argues that many guest workers already in the U.S. are being cruelly exploited--sometimes in government jobs--and fears that any expansion will lead to more instances of what Mary Bauer, an SPLC lawyer, calls "indentured servitude."Mon, 22 May 2006 14:08:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/01/schuster.column/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/01/schuster.column/index.htmlWolves run in packs. They hunt that way. They live that way. The lone wolf is the exception. When it comes to the world of domestic terrorism that might not be the case.Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:12:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/09/obit.butler/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/09/obit.butler/index.htmlRichard Girnt Butler, the white supremacist who founded the racist Aryan Nations organization, has died at 86.Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:38:00 EDT