Nearly 600 members of Houston’s legal community turned out to honor attorney Diana E. Marshall with the Anti-Defamation League’s 2017 Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award.  The award goes annually to an outstanding member of the legal community who exhibits an exceptional commitment to equality, justice, fairness and community service. Since childhood, Marshall has worked diligently for social justice, and to

ADL’s Southwest Region sent a letter to President Denise Trauth of Texas State University, thanking her for her statement denouncing anti-Semitic fliers that appeared on the university’s campus March 2.  The fliers began with the words: “White man, are you sick and tired of the Jews destroying your country through mass immigration and degeneracy?” and were emblazoned with swastikas. ADL’s

“I ask people to refrain from using two words: obviously, and clearly.  We live and work in a very complex world, where nothing is obvious, and even less is clear.”—Amy Herman Nearly 400 people took the message that “nothing is obvious and even less is clear” to heart after watching and hearing art historian and teacher Amy Herman present her

Fifty officers from the Austin Police Department, along with several lay leaders from Austin participated in a Law Enforcement and Society (LEAS) class September 15 at Holocaust Museum Houston.  The Anti-Defamation League partners with the Holocaust Museum and the Houston Police Department to teach the class to law enforcement officers.  The class looks at how local law enforcement officers’ roles

The Anti-Defamation League submitted testimony to the Texas State Board of Education asking the board to “critically review” the proposed textbook: Mexican American Heritage.  The book has been said to contain numerous errors and promote stereotypes of Mexican Americans.   ADL’s testimony in full is below: September 13, 2016 Good morning, my name is Lisa Humphrey. I serve as the Assistant