Margaret Huang

Mar 17, 2024 | thehill.com | Margaret Huang

If any issue should bring together lawmakers across the aisle, it’s child hunger. That’s why it was a shock to learn that more than a dozen Republican governors refused to enroll in a bipartisan federal food program that would help parents who are low-income put food on the table during the summer. Apparently, even efforts to feed hungry children are not above political showmanship.

Jan 24, 2024 | tallahassee.com | Margaret Huang

I grew up in a small town in East Tennessee. My mother is white; my father is Chinese American. As a child, I learned a great deal about my heritage at home. But it was different at school. I never saw my Chinese identity reflected in the stories we read, the lessons we learned, or the teachers who taught them. It was only as a college student that I realized I hadn’t learned about Asian American history at all.  That began to change in the decades after my childhood.

Sep 5, 2023 | learningforjustice.org | Margaret Huang

Margaret Huang, president and chief executive officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the SPLC Action Fund, took time to share her thoughts with Learning for Justice on the role of public education in building a multiracial, inclusive democracy to advance the human rights of all people.

Mar 31, 2023 | newsweek.com | Imara Jones |Margaret Huang

00:44Georgia GOP Bill Would Force Schools To Out Transgender Children From the Conservative Political Action Conference to statehouse floors across the country, the far right and Republican Party have manufactured a disinformation and hate speech campaign against transgender people. The false rhetoric they are deploying—and the violence and political action it has inspired—makes clear their intentions to deny trans people the ability to live safely and freely.

Mar 31, 2023 | splcenter.org | Imara Jones |Margaret Huang

Editor’s note: This op-ed first appeared on Newsweek.com. From the Conservative Political Action Conference to statehouse floors across the country, the far right and Republican party have manufactured a disinformation and hate speech campaign against transgender people. The false rhetoric they are deploying – and the violence and political action it has inspired – makes clear their intentions to deny trans people the ability to live safely and freely.