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The Southern Poverty Law Center combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation. Founded in 1971.

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  1. 2 hours ago

    Those motivated by racial animus should not be allowed to control the lives or destinies of our nation’s children.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Earlier this week, the city of Gardendale, Alabama dropped its efforts to carve out its own school system from Jefferson County. Courts had proven their attempt was racially motivated.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    Public schools have an obligation to welcome children from every background. However, “schools across America are resegregating, and segregation’s harms have grown no less malignant with age.”

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  4. 3 hours ago

    Anti-LGBT adoption bill only the latest in legislative bigotry for some Georgia state lawmakers

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  5. 6 hours ago

    “We gave Dreamers a five-year glimpse at how it feels to be treated as ‘real’ Americans, and now we’re debating closing the blinds."

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  6. 7 hours ago

    Today's Headlines: It's time to think of the far right in a security context, and more

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  7. 8 hours ago

    Read more Frequently Asked Question about our hate map.

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  8. 8 hours ago

    In some states, points are clustered in the geographic center. These points mark hate group chapters that meet in different cities across a state and have no specific location as their headquarters. We mark these chapter as “Statewide."

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  9. 8 hours ago

    Points on the show the approximate locations of hate group chapters. Just because there is a map point located in a town does not mean its local government or residents endorse the beliefs of the group. Quite often, they don’t know the chapter is there.

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  10. 8 hours ago

    The map reflects the previous year's count. The currently on our site reflects the 954 hate groups active in the U.S. during 2017 — an increase from last year.

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  11. 8 hours ago

    Last week we updated our . We do this every year as part of our annual census of hate groups operating in the U.S. The number is a barometer, albeit only one, of the level of hate activity in the country.

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  12. 9 hours ago

    We will stand by these individuals and defend their right to enroll in this state’s Medicaid program.

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  13. 9 hours ago

    Imposing work requirements stands on tenuous legal grounds. In January, we filed suit after the DHHS and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approved changes to Medicaid in Kentucky that endanger health care for thousands of low-income people.

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  14. 9 hours ago

    Alabama’s proposal would result in large numbers of low-income individuals and families losing health care coverage. The state’s own numbers suggest that in 5 years, 15K individuals will have lost coverage—20% of those who would otherwise be covered.

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  15. 9 hours ago

    The proposal from Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Alabama Medicaid Commissioner Stephanie Azar to impose work requirements on recipients is a solution in search of a problem.

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  16. 22 hours ago

    A woman & her daughter, S.S., fled Congo & sought asylum in the US only to be separated & detained. "Seven-year-old S.S. sits all alone in a Chicago facility, frightened and traumatized, crying for her mother and not knowing when she will see her again."

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  17. 24 hours ago

    "Mugshots and sensationalized news narratives create lasting impressions that adversely impact communities and widen the historic divide between police and community." — Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Jackson, Miss.

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  18. Mar 1

    Last night we joined at for a conversation on "Trolls, Threats and Terror: Why is Hate Rising and What Can We Do About It?" Watch the full video here: Photo by

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  19. Mar 1

    "Federal law outlawed debt prisons in 1833, but lenders, landlords and even gyms and other businesses have found a way to resurrect the Dickensian practice."

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  20. Mar 1

    The Pentagon confirmed this week that the first transgender person has signed a contract to join the US military. That's after a federal judge ruled Pres. Trump could not block transgender people from serving.

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