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…
