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New FBI report shows increase in violent hate crime in 2018 <[link removed]>
A 12 percent rise in violent hate crimes comes on the heels of FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July, when he said the majority of domestic terrorism investigations are connected to white supremacy. Given President Trump’s incendiary – and often false – rhetoric about immigrants, it is not surprising that the FBI reports a nearly 14 percent increase in hate crimes against Latinos in 2018. The report also shows an 18 percent increase in anti-LGBTQ hate crimes.
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Emails show senior White House adviser’s affinity for white nationalism <[link removed]>
Before the 2016 election, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller regularly emailed Breitbart News editors in an effort to shape the website’s coverage of immigration issues. The SPLC’s Intelligence Project obtained more than 900 of those emails – and they reveal Miller’s deep alignment with white nationalist ideas and far-right extremism. Read and sign our petition to have Miller removed from the White House here <[link removed]>.
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Criminalizing homelessness in the heart of Dixie <[link removed]>
Across the country, rising housing costs, stagnant wages and inadequate social service infrastructures contribute to a crisis of homelessness. In a victory for the SPLC and other homeless advocates, city council members in Montgomery, Alabama, rejected a measure that would have made it a crime for people to give anything to a pedestrian through a car window on a public road. A mandatory two-day jail stay for anyone who panhandles remains in place. The city agreed to delay enforcement for at least 60 days, but that period has now passed without indication of whether or when it might enforce the ordinance.
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News You Should Know

Supreme Court appears ready to let Trump end DACA program <[link removed]> ( The New York Times )

This powerful commission is shaping school safety policies in Florida <[link removed]> (WGCU)

Honoring those who died for our rights: SPLC celebrates 30th year of Civil Rights Memorial <[link removed]> ( Montgomery Advertiser )

On closing the school to prison pipeline for good <[link removed]> (Essence)

Once again in the Trump administration, religious freedom trumps LGBT rights <[link removed]> ( Washington Post )












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