FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Right after the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis, Verizon promoted education materials from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center that advocated for teaching Black Lives Matter in school.

The company now denies any relationship with the SPLC.

Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian law firm that urges companies to respect viewpoint diversity through its Viewpoint Diversity Score program, highlighted a Verizon announcement from June 2020, in which the telecom company promoted the SPLC’s education arm, then called Teaching Tolerance.

Verizon promoted a “panel discussion on race, equality, and justice,” and listed a variety of online resources as a “toolkit.” The “toolkit” included “tools for families to start a conversation” including “Teaching Tolerance” and The National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The Southern Poverty Law Center promotes a bevy of leftist causes, from transgender orthodoxy to critical race theory to drag queen story hour to a path to citizenship for illegal aliens.

Critical race theory refers to a lens by which educators tell white students they are inherently oppressors and black students they are inherently oppressed, and present America as institutionally racist. CRT often presents various aspects of Western........

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