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The Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants. Alabama's acting attorney general announced the indictment on Tuesday. The center says it paid confidential informants in order to monitor threats of violence from extremist groups. The center's CEO Bryan Fair said the organization will vigorously defend against the charges. The Southern Poverty Law Center was created 55 years ago to support civil rights and expanded to label and track hate groups.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups. The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with payments of at least $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to people affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America and other extremist groups. SPLC CEO Bryan Fair says the organization “will vigorously defend ourselves, our staff, and our work.”
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Today is Saturday, April 11, the 101st day of 2026. There are 264 days left in the year.
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Russia’s Supreme Court has effectively criminalized the activities of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group Memorial, the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent and civil society organizations. Separately, Moscow police raided the offices of the prominent independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, whose chief editor Dmitry Muratov was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2021. Memorial said in a statement earlier Thursday that the court's ruling would allow authorities to crack down on any Memorial projects, participants and supporters. Memorial is one of the oldest Russian human rights organizations. It was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, alongside Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties.
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Sexual abuse allegations against the revered labor leader César Chavez have led to a swift fallout, leaving many to reconcile the legacy of a man who fought tirelessly for the rights of farmworkers. Latino leaders and community leaders have quickly condemned the alleged abuse by Chavez. Now they are weighing the impact of his actions on the labor rights movement and how to move forward acknowledging Chavez actions and the impact he had on Latino civil rights. Reconciling with a tainted legacy is something various civil rights groups have had to as accusations and rumors are unearthed. For many Chavez’s reckoning is an example of why movements should not be tied to one person.
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From California to Minnesota, elected leaders and civil rights groups are scrambling to distance themselves from César Chavez’s name in the wake of sexual abuse allegations. Efforts have been swift and widespread to rebrand events ahead of what typically was a day to celebrate the Latino rights advocate on his birthday, March 31. In Tucson, Arizona, a celebration was instead billed as a community and labor fair. In Grand Junction, Colorado, it’s now the Sí, Se Puede Celebration. The conversations behind the decisions have been anything but easy as supporters deal with conflicted feelings while sorting how best to honor the legacy of the farmworker movement.
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CHICAGO (WAND) — The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has entered into an agreement to better comply with federal civil rights obligati…
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DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — For Eric Burks, Black history is more than just a month.
