Hundreds of migrant farmworkers and foreign guestworkers were recruited to work in the onion fields of south Georgia for a subsidiary of one of the country's largest food companies. But when they were repeatedly short-changed on payday, the company attempted to avoid responsibility by blaming a labor broker.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, representing the workers, has won the first round in the case against Del Monte Fresh Produce Southeast.
With the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate clinched, large sections of the white supremacist movement are adopting a surprising attitude: Electing America’s first black president would be a very good thing.
The SPLC's case against the Imperial Klans of America is scheduled for trial in November in Kentucky. The trial team, led by Morris Dees, is preparing for the case.
A group of Indian workers, who are represented in a lawsuit by the Southern Poverty Law Center, are protesting their mistreatment under the nation's guestworker program. Read coverage of their story in the The New York Times.
The latest issue of Teaching Tolerance looks at the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ideals, innovations in migrant education and classroom simulations that do harm to students.
The ABCs of Classroom Management provides strategies to help build classroom communities where students are engaged in positive ways.
