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In this undated image taken from video courtesy of KATU 2, Max Hirsh, 22, speaks during an interview in Portland, Ore.

California State University professors and other employees cannot engage in "discriminatory behavior, bullying or harassment," nor may they display "offensive conduct of an unwelcome nature." But if you examine both the recent and long-term behavior of the university system's most notoriously racist and anti-Semitic professor, his work labeled both ... (more)

White supremacist groups have been having a "meltdown," says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.

Students will no longer be handcuffed to poles in a Jackson, Mississippi public school.

Max Hirsh says he sensed something wasn't quite right when the psychiatrist focused on his failures with sports and teenage girls, as well as his deficient relationships with older men, particularly his father.

Jackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline.Mississippi's second-largest school district agreed Friday to the settlement with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had sued over the practice of shackling students to a pole at the ... (more)

Jackson Public Schools will no longer handcuff students to fixed objects and will train staff at its alternative school in better disciplinary methods.

SPLC Names New Black Panther Malik Zulu Shabazz to Its 'Radical Right' Activist List The Blaze has told you before A aboutA New Black Panther leader Malik Zulu Shabazz and his radical ideology.

In this undated image taken from video courtesy of KATU 2, Max Hirsh, 22, speaks during an interview in Portland, Ore.

In this undated image taken from video courtesy of KATU 2, Max Hirsh, 22, speaks during an interview in Portland, Ore.

White babies are no longer a majority of new births, according to theU.S. Census Bureau.

On his Fox Business show, Lou Dobbs suggested that the New Black Panther Party , which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group , constitutes Obama's base.

California State University professors and other employees cannot engage in "discriminatory behavior, bullying or harassment," nor may they display "offensive conduct of an unwelcome nature ..." But if you examine both the recent and long-term behavior of the university's most notoriously racist and anti-Semitic professor, his work labeled both ... (more)

The Jefferson Parish School Board has been under fire recently: civil rights organization Southern Poverty Law Center filed a complaint alleging that the school system "sends a disproportionate number of black and disabled students to alternative schools to languish for months." Now the group is targeting Jefferson Parish for employing a school ... (more)

A civil rights organization that has been issuing complaints about the Jefferson Parish school system's treatment of black and special education students is adding to its grievances by spotlighting racially incendiary comments posted on the Internet by a school psychologist in Jefferson.

While the U.S. Census Bureau's longtime prediction that the size of the country's racial and ethnic groups will together surpass that of the non-Hispanic white population has already become a reality among the nation's newborns, there is little evidence that the trend is prompting new interest in the nation's hate groups.

An assistant principal refused to allow students to wear anything with a rainbow on it, saying the image implied sex.

Members of the National Socialist Movement hold a rally against immigration in Pomona, Calif., in this Nov.

For the second time this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a civil rights complaint against the Jefferson Parish School Board , this time alleging it sends a disproportionate number of black and disabled students to alternative schools to languish for months.

Claiming that Jefferson Parish public schools have pushed a disproportionate number of black students and students with disabilities into alternative schools, the Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education.