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

Montgomery, Alabama
Joined August 2009

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  1. ICE has deported a US Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan. "If they are sentencing me to a certain death, and I am going to die, then why die in a place that I have not considered my home in a long time?

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  2. : Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry declines to charge officers in Alton Sterling case, family says

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  3. Today's Headlines: How young white men are being radicalized online, and more

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Pat's son has been incarcerated for the last 11 years. She's at to be a voice for her son.

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  5. "Minorities are pulled over by police at higher rates than whites. Many see a troubling message: You don't belong."

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  6. Join us today to lobby for a better criminal justice system. Louisiana should not be the incarceration capital of the world. We need to protect our state's - and add to it - to reduce our prison population, save money and make us safer.

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  7. "ICE, the federal agency tasked with Trump’s program of mass deportation, uses backend Facebook data to locate and track immigrants that it is working to round up."

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  8. In 1944, 2 white girls were killed in a South Carolina town. The last person to see them alive was the son of a wealthy white family. But the police didn’t look for a white killer. George Stinney—14 and black—was accused, tried, and executed.

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  9. Linda Brown was in third grade when she changed the course of this nation. Her family's fight for her education put her at the center of , the case that struck down school segregation across the country.

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  10. Fake new is media that is produced to appear genuine but that is actually based on falsehood, exaggeration or propaganda.

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  11. A doctored image of student Emma González has circulated on far right social media. The manipulated animation showed the 18-year-old mass shooting survivor ripping up the Constitution. In reality, she was ripping up a target.

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  12. 19 hours ago

    Linda Brown, center of Brown v. Board Of Education, dies at 76

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  13. Louisiana puts more of its people behind bars than anywhere else in the world. This has cost us too much money and has not made us safer. If you're in Louisiana, sign and share our petition. Pledge to fight for a safer, stronger state.

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  14. Roughly 80 men awaiting deportation, some of whom had come to the US as refugees, were "pepper-sprayed, beaten, threatened, taunted with racial slurs, and subjected to sexual abuse" at a Texas detention center.

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  15. "No one seems to really care. It hardly makes the news. "Guns are wiping out generations right here in this city."

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  16. Today's Headlines: Trump White House hosts anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, and more

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  17. Young people deported to Mexico live "adrift in a kind of transitional state between two countries: one they knew and loved but that rejected them, and another in which they have citizenship but lack a deeper sense of belonging."

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  18. The CFPB is supposed to stamp out abusive lending practices. Under the Trump admin, it has dropped a suit against a payday loan collector, and is weighing whether to drop other cases–all against companies it previously accused of harming consumers.

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  19. Pres. Trump's ban on transgender troops is disgraceful. It's discriminatory. It's backed by the country’s most extreme anti-LGBT hate groups.

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  20. The Department of Health and Human Services no longer has any health topic pages specifically related to LGBT health on its website.

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