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The SPLC is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. The SPLC defines a hate group as "an organization that — based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities — has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class ...
The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was designed to suspend Chinese immigration to the United States, and deport Chinese residents that were termed as illegally residing in the country. The types of individuals that could be deported from the United States was later reclassified to include those who were insane or carrying a disease, convicts ...
This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States between 2020 and 2023 against systemic racism towards black people in the United States, such as in the form of police violence. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Following the murder of George Floyd , unrest broke out in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area on May 26, 2020, and quickly spread across the ...
BabyCenter said the names were determined "due to their having the biggest declines in name registrations between 2023 and 2024." Looking for baby names inspo: See list of most popular names
Goshen, Indiana, adopted a resolution on March 17, 2015, acknowledging and apologizing for its exclusion practices and policies. [65] Greensburg, Indiana, experienced race riots in 1906 [66] and 1907. [67] Sociologist James W. Loewen described the town as a sundown town in his 2005 book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. [68]
A study by the Brandeis University Institute on Assets and Social Policy which followed the same sets of families for 25 years found that there are vast differences in wealth across racial groups in the United States. The wealth gap between Caucasian and African-American families studied nearly tripled, from $85,000 in 1984 to $236,500 in 2009.
List of cities and counties in the United States offering an LGBT non-discrimination ordinance; Homeless Bill of Rights; State equal rights amendments; Employment discrimination law in the United States; Discrimination based on hair texture in the United States; Public accommodations in the United States
White women in the U.S. who used their White privilege as a weapon have been given a different name over the centuries by Black people, with Karen a contemporary name. [115] In May 2020, a White woman calling the police on a Black man bird-watching in Central Park, New York received wide publicity after it was caught on film.