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November 20, 2025 - 1:30pm
Salt Lake City Community leaders, partners and students show deep commitment to addressing hate during United Against Hate Week. 
October 3, 2025 - 1:33pm
Photo: Pittsburgh neighbors grieve after eleven are killed at a synagogue in 2018  Not In Our Town Executive Director Justin Lock reflects on the importance of local engagement to respond to attacks targeting faith groups. 
August 15, 2025 - 11:29am
Community Actions- Summer 2025   Sussex County, Delaware On June 19, 2025, Speak Out Against Hate (SOAH) launched its "hate has no home here" Initiative featuring Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester as the keynote speaker. The message is coming across loud and clear through consistent signage on offices, public buildings, businesses, communities, and places of worship. For more information about SOAH activities, please visit soah-de.org. 
June 16, 2025 - 10:40am
Ten years after the hate crime killing of nine people in Charleston: NIOT leader Pardeep Kaleka has a deep and personal understanding of the impact of hate violence. Here he remembers the Charleston AME Church massacre  ten years later with reflections on the persistence of anti-Black racism and the complexity of forgiveness. 
June 2, 2025 - 11:08am
UCSC Hosts Scholars, Dialogue, and Film Screening Patrice O’Neill (Repairing the World Director and Not in Our Town Founder), Lauren Bairnsfather (CEO of Anne Frank USA), and Mehnaz Afridi (Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Director for the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University) lead a discussion following the film screening.