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📢 Join us for our virtual livestream to mark the release of The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021! SPLC Chief of Staff and Culture Lecia Brooks will moderate the event, featuring details and insights from our #YearInHate report.

Join us for our virtual livestream to mark the release of The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021! SPLC Chief of Staff and Culture Lecia Brooks will moderate the event, featuring details and insights from our #YearInHate report.

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Climate Change and Women's Rights: Intertwined Crises | National

Women have been disproportionately harmed by the consequences of climate change. Women make up 80% of people displaced by climate change, a United Nations report found. Read more:

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Extreme weather events threaten women disproportionately On February 28th, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a grim report on the status of the climate

Civil rights groups to challenge Alabama ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth

Alabama's proposed ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth is dangerous and can only harm trans individuals. Civil rights groups are actively fighting against this ban for the future of trans youth.

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Lambda Legal, The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Alabama, Transgender Law Center, and Cooley LLP announced today plans to file a legal challenge to proposed legislation in Alabama that...

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We’re relaunching our Power Hour virtual phone bank to contact #Georgia voters to check whether their registration status is up to date, remind them of the deadlines and encourage them to vote in the primary and general elections. Sign up today! splcenter.org/powerhour

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Believe it or not, election dates are right around the corner! Make sure you have a plan to vote in #Georgia. #VoteYourVoice SPLC has guides on how to vote in Georgia, including how to navigate the 2021 state law, SB 202. bit.ly/373zLFH

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Visit the Blank Slate Monument at SPLC’s Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama. The statue has 3 connected figures that capture the excruciating history of African Americans, from enslavement to the Civil War and the civil rights movement.

‘Blank Slate’: Monument on display at Civil Rights Memorial Center

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On April 12, 2015, police arrested Freddie Gray for possessing a knife that they thought was illegal. It wasn't. He was treated brutally by the police and sustained injuries so serious, he died seven days later #OTD. #TheMarchContinues

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The Blank Slate big unveiling is today! Visit the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama, free of charge at 11:30 a.m. CST Tuesday. Learn more at bit.ly/373KWOj.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson says she stands on the shoulders of another trailblazing Black woman: Constance Baker Motley. Listen as James Meredith, who became the 1st Black student at Ole Miss after Motley won his case, says what this confirmation means to him:

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With Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed as the first African American woman to sit on the Supreme Court, "CBS Mornings" national correspondent Jericka Duncan discusses Jackson's influence with James...

Jacksonville civil rights attorney, Bill Sheppard, dies

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Jacksonville, #Florida, lawyer William "Bill" Sheppard has died at 80. He formed the first racially integrated law firm in Florida. He helped legalize same-sex marriage in the state. And he fought for better conditions for incarcerated people. Read more:

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"He wasn't a "lawyer." He was a man who was willing to give everything he had to the people and causes he loved."

The Blank Slate Monument will be officially unveiled on Tuesday, April 12, at 11:30 a.m. CST. The exhibit at the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama, will be free. Experience retelling of history! Learn details about visiting at splcenter.org/civil-rights-m.

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Crews to begin removal of Caddo Confederate Monument in 2022

The Caddo Commission won their battle to remove the Confederate monument in front of the courthouse in #Shreveport, #Louisiana. This a great step away from a history of hate. #WhoseHeritage

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The monument was placed there in 1906.

The deadline to register for Georgia's primary election is April 25. GET REGISTERED TO VOTE! Your vote is your voice! #Georgia check your secretary of state’s website to ensure you’re ready to vote! #VoteYourVoice

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Polling place closures in #Louisiana make voting harder and more time-consuming, but the burden is hefty on Black and working-class voters. If one polling site is closed, it leads to longer wait times at neighboring polling places. #VotingRights bit.ly/2YflQrp

Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court in its 233-year history. Learn more about her path to the high court in an SPLC timeline detailing her legal career. #KetanjiBrownJackson

Ketanji Brown Jackson: Legal career timeline

The unionization efforts for tobacco leaf house workers in 1946 were successful and brought improved wages and work conditions, and mass voter registrations. Events like these should be memorialized in statues.

From Lee Circle to Harmony Circle? New Orleans City Council takes first step toward renaming street

Finally! Lee Circle will be called Harmony Circle as the New Orleans City Council starts to move toward a future with symbols of love and acceptance.

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Lee Circle would become Harmony Circle under the City Council’s first formal effort to remove the Confederate general’s name from downtown New Orleans.

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#OTD, labor leader, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, Dolores Huerta, was born. At 90, Huerta continues to develop leaders and advocate for the working poor, women and children. Happy Birthday, Dolores! #TheMarchContinues

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A new U.N. report says minorities in the U.S. "are particularly vulnerable to the gaps and omissions of a patchwork federal and state human rights legislation and protections." The author met with the SPLC and other civil rights orgs for insight. splcenter.org/news/2022/03/3

A city council in #Florida racially gerrymanders districts despite Black voter outrage. Jacksonville’s new map packs most of the city’s Black voters into districts 7, 8, 9 and 10, weakening their ability to affect elections in other districts. bit.ly/3Jn7bMr

#OTD, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enacted. The act declared that people born in the U.S. were citizens and have right to enjoy the full protection of federal law. Today we press against the barriers in place to block these rights. #TheMarchContinues

James King was another person subjected to the Three Strikes Law and sentenced to life without parole for a nonviolent crime. He received justice only when the Three Strikes Project fought for his release and freedom.

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Migrations project helps refugees claim health care rights | Cornell Chronicle

Migrants often face significant barriers to health care because of their status. However, a Cornell University research group aims to educate migrants on their health care rights and the services they can access.

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A Cornell collaboration crossing medicine, law, technology and communication is aiming to encourage the use of health care benefits by refugees in the U.S. – who often suffer poor health but are...

“Our hearts are with Gov. Whitmer and the Michigan community impacted by the intimidating planning and actions of these antigovernment militia activists. Actions of this kind are a direct attack on our democracy." - Susan Corke, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is deeply disappointed in the acquittal and mistrial verdicts of antigovernment extremists in the Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot. Read the full statement:

The SPLC Expresses Disappointment in Acquittal and Mistrial Verdicts

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Commission will review more than 750 military signs and markers to see if they need to be renamed...

More than 750 items in the military are under review on the basis of their names being tied to the Confederacy. These include various military functions from bases to mechanical room signages in Georgia.

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The congressional naming commission which was set up to remove Confederate names from military bases will review the names of "more than 750 Department of Defense items" that include everything from...

As in many states in the Deep South, the tactics used to deny and dilute Black residents’ right to vote in Louisiana have changed over time but remain disproportionally burdensome to Black voters and other voters of color. splcenter.org/sites/default/

Doris Derby, activist, educator and photographer, dies at 82

Civil rights era photographer Doris Derby has died at 82. Her contributions to telling the story of being Black in America shed light on many injustices.

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Doris Derby, 82, noted civil rights activist and photographer dies

#Mississippi's Three Strikes Law has been exceedingly demoralizing to the Hamilton family. This law is pervasive and cruel and has destroyed families and will continue to do so for years to come.

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Taking down the Bentonville, Arkansas, Confederate monument shows hate has no place in our society. Instead, we should honor hope in the form of the Little Rock Nine, who gave everyone hope of a better future.

CDC will end sweeping order used to expel migrants at U.S. borders during Covid pandemic

The CDC will end Title 42, a law that disproportionally affected Black and Brown migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. This allows due process at the border once again.

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The CDC said the order, known as Title 42, will end on May 23 to give the Department of Homeland Security time to ramp up a vaccination program at the border.

According to the American Library Association, books about or written by Black and #LGBTQ people were among the 10 most challenged titles in 2021. cnn.it/35OyW2Q

The Blank Slate Monument will be officially unveiled on April 12 at noon CST. The exhibit at the Civil Rights Memorial Center will be free. Experience retelling of history! Learn details about visiting at bit.ly/373KWOj.

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SPLC podcast Sounds like Hate has been nominated for

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Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman voted on to the Supreme Court in its 233-year history. See the SPLC timeline detailing her legal career.

Ketanji Brown Jackson: Legal career timeline

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