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The Southern Poverty Law Center combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation. Founded in 1971. Cover: AP Photo/Matt Rourke

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    May 29

    "Placing Harriet Tubman on the new $20 bill will not stop Trump from implementing extremist policies. But it will begin the process of reconciling our nation’s true history, so that we can move forward, together." — SPLC President Karen Baynes-Dunning

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  2. 11 hours ago

    Like so many of Pres. Trump’s statements, decisions & policies, the decision to postpone putting abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill clearly seems undergirded by racism & misogyny.

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  3. 13 hours ago

    President Trump has opened the doors of the White House to hate and extremism In May, he rolled back civil rights protections for transgender Americans and proposed admitting immigrants based on their skills, not family ties.

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  4. 15 hours ago

    "If you can’t work because you don’t have your legal status, how are you going to eat? The answer is you’re not. The system is built in a way that most of these young people will end up in adult detention." — Terry Keel, Children’s Center

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  5. 17 hours ago

    The 19th amendment, passed 100 years ago, allowed women the right to vote. It was a victory–for white middle-class women. Meanwhile, Native Americans weren't granted citizenship until 1924 and African Americans lived under the thumb of Jim Crow & the KKK.

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  6. 19 hours ago

    Bayard Rustin has been called the indispensable force within the movement. He organized the famed March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. During , we are honoring LGBTQIA+ trail blazers.

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  7. May 31

    It's crucial that students learn the accurate, difficult history of American slavery so they can understand its legacy of racism and inequity today.

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  8. May 31

    Conversion therapy is a discredited & harmful practice based on pseudoscience that purports to change a person's sexuality.

    Yvette Cantu Schneider voiced an ad blasting the fraudulent practice of conversion therapy. It's a response to the so-called “Freedom March,” an “ex-gay” rally that launched in 2018. “I’ve never seen anyone change from gay to straight ever,” she said.
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  9. May 31

    "Instead of being treated like ‘guests,’ these workers are bound like indentured servants to the employers who bring them to the United States, because they are not authorized to work for anyone else." — SPLC's Norma Ventura

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  10. May 31

    Civil asset forfeiture is an unfair and undemocratic remnant of the War on Drugs that's become a revenue stream for law enforcement — but one whose burden falls most heavily on the most economically vulnerable.

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  11. May 31

    Grace Lee Boggs was a champion for Black power and the rights of children, women and workers. Her work lives on by shaping generations of progressive leaders and change agents.

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  12. May 31

    : is dedicated to keeping the memories of those who died in the struggle for civil rights alive, and educating the public about the movement that inspires our work today. Follow them to learn more.

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  13. May 31

    A citizenship question will chill response rates, particularly among communities — such as low-income rural and urban families, people of color, and immigrant families — that are already at greater risk of being undercounted.

    STATEMENT: The Hofeller memo confirms what we’ve known all along but is alarming nonetheless: the citizenship question was motivated by blatant right-wing partisanship.
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  14. May 31

    We're suing the Trump administration for implementing an ICE policy requiring asylum seekers be released only if they can establish their identity and show they are not a danger or flight risk.

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  15. May 31

    "Twitter has David Duke on there; Twitter has Richard Spencer. They have some of the biggest idealogues of white supremacy and people whose ideas have inspired terrorist attacks on their site, and it's outrageous." — SPLC's Heidi Beirich

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    May 30

    New: The SPLC and ACLU of Louisiana are suing to block ICE from denying parole to nearly all asylum-seekers detained in remote prisons in Louisiana and other southern states. Background on ICE's rapid expansion in Louisiana:

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  17. May 30

    FACT CHECK: The AG's office has representatives at parole hearings and didn't question the parole decisions until after the fact. HB 380 is going to exacerbate Alabama’s unconstitutional prison crisis.

    “The Attorney General has never pointed [us] to a reason why …” This statement—referring to reforming the badly broken Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles—was aired last week. I thought I’d hit them all, but welcome another shot. Here are 12 reasons (in no particular order) …
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  18. May 30

    The Trump administration has implemented an ICE policy requiring asylum seekers be released only if they can establish their identity and show they are not a danger or flight risk. We’re suing with .

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  19. May 30

    37% of all border crossings are minors, many of them under 12. Border patrol has apprehended boys in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costumes & girls looking forward to turning 6 in the US. We owe them a humane & just immigration system.

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  20. May 30

    It's time to , not defend it. Protecting these symbols is a slap in the face to African Americans whose ancestors were enslaved by the white supremacist system the Confederacy sought to uphold.

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    May 30

    New Hampshire has become the 21st state to abolish the death penalty in the United States

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