Standing on the Side of Love Against Hate, a free presentation by speaker Lecia Brooks, outreach director of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), will be held Sunday, Jan. 27, at 2 p.m. in the Nicolet College Theater on Rhinelander campus. The presentation topic will be the state of hate and extremism in America.

Every year the Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Woodruff, honors the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with a free event which sustains Dr. King’s work. Brooks’ presentation will highlight the nature of hate groups, the  69% increase in their numbers since 2000, as well as ways to combat such