Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, will testify before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary tomorrow for a hearing on “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism.”
She will demonstrate the need for our work at this critical point in history, where we saw a 20-year record high number of active hate groups last year. White supremacy remains a persistent threat to our country, and African Americans in particular are the most targeted. They have been for generations, and anti-Black hate crimes are always very high in number from the FBI’s data.
Last week, three separate Black churches in Louisiana were burned to the ground. As we know from history, targeting houses of worship in the African American community has been especially common in the South. The Lawyers’ Committee is keeping an eye on the developments.
At the Lawyers’ Committee, we hold perpetrators of hate accountable and to combat the increase in white supremacy.
We successfully disrupted online platforms that spread hate and violence against minorities, including
Stormfront.org and
AltRight.com.
We successfully advocated for Facebook to stop permitting “white nationalist” and “white separatist” content on its platform while banning “white supremacist content” only, as no distinction can be made between them. And
we have successfully represented individuals who have been targeted for hate by filing litigation against white supremacists and using the courts to vindicate the rights of impacted individuals.
Watch the testimony live
here at 10:00 a.m.
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