In SPLC victory, Mississippi sheriff’s office agrees to stop racial profiling
Under a settlement we’ve reached with the sheriff’s office in Hancock County, Miss., deputies will no longer seek to enforce federal immigration law and will abide by stringent anti-profiling policies. We sued the county in 2017 after a Latinx family was detained for four hours based solely on their appearance. The new policies prohibit officers from stopping and detaining individuals based on their race, ethnicity or national origin, or based on a suspicion that they lack authorization to be in the United States.

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Teaching Tolerance shines a spotlight on the mental health of black youth
The Fall issue of our Teaching Tolerance magazine draws attention to a 2018 study revealing that the suicide rate for black children between the ages of 5 to 12 is twice as high as for white children in that age range. Black people, including youth, are less likely to receive adequate care for mental health issues for a number of reasons: disparities in access to care, stigma about mental illness and lack of culturally competent mental health practitioners. To mitigate these disparities, we're urging schools to take an active role by stopping teaching practices that traumatize black youth and provide culturally responsive, community-based mental health resources.

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Hatewatch unmasks leaders of Identity Dixie, a neo-Confederate propaganda machine
Our investigators have been monitoring the emergence of Identity Dixie, a group of militant secessionists that emerged after the Charleston church massacre in 2015. The group, which played a key role in organizing the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, has gone to great lengths to hide its membership and avoid identification. But we’ve learned and published the identities of some of the group’s leaders and members.

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News You Should Know 

White nationalists latch on to climate change for mass migration hysteria (TPM)

Report details high rates of suspension for Native Americans in K–12 (diverseeducation.com) 

Does this anti-discrimination law protect LGBTQ workers? 3 cases ask Supreme Court to decide (PBS) 

Family separation and refugee cap reinvigorate Jews’ activist roots: ‘We’ve always been immigrants’ (Los Angeles Times)

Supreme Court says Trump can bar asylum seekers while legal fight continues (The New York Times)

There are no nostalgic Nazi memorials (The Atlantic)