Southern Poverty Law Center

The Francis Howell School Board plans to vote this month on the new curricula for its Black history and literature courses the district threatened to pull unless social justice standards from the Southern Poverty Law Center were removed. Some parents say while the changes aren’t bad, they’re worried the board won't approve them.

Nearly doubling since 1999, the long-growing number of hate groups active within the United States has remained nearly static since the election of…

Updated 11:55 a.m. April 14 with comments from MassResistance —Parents and students say an organization identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty…

Morris Dees, the co-founder of Southern Poverty Law Center, was born in 1936 and grew up on a small cotton farm in Alabama. His parents didn’t own the…