Southern Poverty Law Center

products in developed countries. However, the low costs have caused major corporations to pay workers less in an effort to gain a higher profit. These companies center their factories in countries that lack wage regulations. The lack of regulations and policies “concentrate wealth at the top, removing...the very tools…

they’re called hate crimes. Hate Crimes are outlawed by federal law which has been semi-recently revised to expand its protections. Although under the 1st Amendment hate groups have the right to congregate, some radical hate group members express their beliefs through hate crimes, the changing nature of which warranted revisions to the law. Hate groups are defined differently by various information sources but the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) defines a hate…

stating their opinions. There are those who believe that picketing an American soldier’s funeral is disrespectful and socially deviant. Most Americans agree that the Westboro Baptist Church are a social nuisance, a menace to society. The Southern Poverty Law Center called Westboro "arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America." (Burke, 2014) Other so called hate groups such as the KKK and the Satanic Temple have stated that they disagree with the church and its teachings. Their…

Schooling and homelife determining Success An eight-year-old third grade boy comes to school every day and the only meals he receives are the free breakfast and free lunch that he gets at his Title One school in a low income community. Nobody in his household graduated from college. Nobody in his family graduated for high school actually, yet he is expected to be on grade level. In third grade, End of Grade test scores determine prison construction the U.S. This evaluation of scores is called…

Party was originally formed in order to police their own neighborhoods from the Oakland Police Department. They chose to police the police due to the police brutality that was going on in their neighborhoods. The Black Panther Party used the California law that permitted carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun as long as it was carried in the open and not pointed at anyone. This is how the Black Panther Party came to be known as a militant group and violent organization. The Black Panther Party was…

work as a canvasser for the paycheck but eventually I became passionate about the issues I was raising funds for. One issue that struck home to me was bullying. Working for Grassroots Campaign, I became involved in raising money for the Southern Poverty Law Center in their efforts to combat bullying in schools. Their idea of combatting this issue is teaching messages of tolerance at a fundamental age. I was never into politics but by surprise, I realized I am fascinated by politics and history.…

enslaved in 1850. Moreover, discrimination against African Americans is also at an all-time high in the housing, education, and employment sectors and with regard to voting rights. Many Americans have been deceived into believing that the civil rights laws of the 1960s eradicated these things…

homelessness, poverty, and abuse. In a recent study, researchers found that more than 60% of prostitutes interviewed, reported childhood physical or sexual abuse (Russell, 1998). This exploitation of an already vulnerable group of individuals rises to the threshold of human rights violations, and any chance to effect change and improvement in the living standards for this group, must work in tandem with the police, prosecutors, and judges. As recently as 1991, police in a southern California…

What makes a country great? It is not how much money the country has or the size of the country because a country is just a large collection of people living within set boundaries. A country gets its greatness on how happy it’s citizens are, what it contributes to the rest of the world, and how it got to be the country it is. In the opening scene of the “Newsroom”, a female college girl questions, “What makes America the greatest country in the world?” to a panel discussion. America, however,…

racial group is inferior to the others” (“Racism”). In other words, racism comes into play when one race feels as if they are superior to another for certain reasons or just love the mindset that they are above another for no specific reason. The southern part of the United States has long been home to racism due to its past of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement…