According to media stories, bullying has increased in the Houston Independent School District. The district says there were nearly 400 bullying reports in the 2015-2016 school year, up from 115 the year before.  District officials say the uptick could be the result of better reporting, but the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) believes even one bullying incident is one too many.  Studies

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and a criminal justice system in which African Americans and Latinos are much more likely than whites to be stopped, arrested, charged with crimes, and serve long prison sentences.   What impact does this have on Houston and our country, why should we care and what can we do about

The number of violent anti-Semitic assaults taking place in the United States rose dramatically last year, contributing to a three percent rise in the total number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2015 compared to 2014, according to new data from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, issued June 22, recorded a total of 941 incidents in

The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL’s) Coalition for Mutual Respect joins with our community in expressing shock and horror about what happened in Orlando and condemning this act of terror. Our deepest sympathies, thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. We are concerned this attack could lead to a backlash against American Muslims and caution against blaming all Muslims

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) applauds Corpus Christi Police, the FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Texas and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division for the successful prosecution and sentencing of two men who pleaded guilty to a hate crime in connection with their attack on a gay African American man in Corpus Christi. 33-year-old Jimmy