This Week in the News: April 19-25

Here's what we've been reading this week:

Judge Denies Transgender Inmate's Request for Transfer by Deborah Sontag, The New York TImes: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/us/judge-denies-ashley-diamonds-a-transgender-inmate-request-for-transfer.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0

Diverse campuses, but still few black students by Laura Krantz, The Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/04/24/boston-area-colleges-struggle-attract-african-americans-campus/ULApCGSF8aIn74RKnZGgUK/story.html#

UNC Students Launch Twitter Campaign In Response To Anti-Muslim Comments by Alexandra Svokos, The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/24/unc-david-horowitz-comments_n_7128010.html?utm_hp_ref=college

This Week in the News: April 12-18

Here's what we've been reading this week:

Student Coalition at Stanford Confronts Allegations of Anti-Semitism by Jennifer Medina, The New York Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/us/student-coalition-at-stanford-confronts-allegations-of-anti-semitism.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1

Kansas bans welfare recipients from seeing movies, going swimming on government's dime by Peter Holley and Elahe Izadi, The Washington Post:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/04/06/kansas-wants-to-ban-welfare-recipients-from-seeing-movies-going-swimming-on-governments-dime/?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

20 years after Oklahoma City bombing, domestic terror threat remains by J.Richard Cohen, MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/20-years-after-oklahoma-city-bombing-domestic-terror-threat-remains

Some States Are Considering Adding Sexual Assault  by Tyler Kingkade, Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/13/sexual-assault-transcripts_n_7036590.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000056

 

This Week in the News-Midweek Edition

Here's what SPLC on Campus staff has been reading so far this week. Let us know what you've been reading by submitting articles to emily.mumford@splcenter.org.

Maryland fraternity member who wrote offensive email will not return to campus, official says by Colin Campbell, The Baltimore Sun: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-umd-fraternities-folo-20150326-story.html

White Millennials are products of a failed lesson in colorblindness by Mychal Denzel Smith, PBS: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/white-millennials-products-failed-lesson-colorblindness/#.VRc43m5zC18.facebook

 

This Week in the News: March 15-21

Here's what we've been reading this week:

The United States Is Getting More Tolerant Of Everyone (Except Racists) by Kay Steiger, Think Progress:  http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/03/16/3634085/united-states-getting-tolerant-everyone-except-racists/

Uproar after black UVA student injured during arrest by Dana Ford, CNN:  http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/18/us/uva-police-brutality-allegations/

SAE Launches Plan to Target Racial Discrimination by Ian Smith, KAGS: http://www.kagstv.com/News/KAGSNews/ID/7953/SAE-Launches-Plan-to-Target-Racial-Discrimination

Swatiskas investigated at SUNY Purchase by Matt Spillane, Lohud: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2015/03/20/suny-purchase-swastikas/25119537/

SUNY Geneseo Speakers Seek Abolishment of 'Prison Industrial Complex' by Conrad Barker, Geneseesun.com: http://www.geneseesun.com/2015/03/20/suny-geneseo-speakers-seek-abolishment-prison-industrial-complex/

 

The March Continues: Join SPLC for the last leg of the Selma to Montgomery March

Join the Southern Poverty Law Center for the last leg of the Selma to Montgomery March on Wednesday, March 25th. The March will begin at 10am at the St.Jude campsite and a special program will follow at the Capitol featuring Rev. Bernice K…

Join the Southern Poverty Law Center for the last leg of the Selma to Montgomery March on Wednesday, March 25th. The March will begin at 10am at the St.Jude campsite and a special program will follow at the Capitol featuring Rev. Bernice King, Peggy Wallace Kennedy, Morris Dees, and Gov. Robert Bentley.

Please contact Emily Mumford @ emily.mumford@splcenter.org for more information on the March.