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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
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Advocates fight for voting rights of formerly incarcerated people in Mississippi
Editor’s note: This story is presented as a tribute to the life of Cynetra Freeman and the work of the organization she founded, the Mississippi Center for Reentry, a Southern Poverty Law Center Vote Your Voice grant recipient. Freeman died late last year, after the SPLC interviewed her for this story. The SPLC extends its…
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- Eliminating Poverty
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Tour highlights race-based poverty and inequity across Mississippi Delta region
Interstate highways have dramatically compressed parts of the United States. But when you get off the big federal roadways, the ground unfurls for miles in every direction. Nowhere is that truer than driving into the Mississippi Delta. The green mile markers and clip-clop of expansion joints give way to huge expanses of farmland, the occasional…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
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Vote Your Voice: Florida Justice Center critical to returning citizens
J.S. showed up at the Fort Lauderdale office of the Florida Justice Center (FLJC) this past fall to find out if he was qualified to vote in the presidential election. A 50-year-old Black man, J.S., whose name has been abbreviated in this story to protect his identity, had been out of prison for years after…
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Hindu Supremacy in the United States
In 2024, Southern Poverty Law Center staff interviewed eight experts and advocates working in the human rights space to explore the topic of Hindu supremacism and the myriad ways this ideology shows up in the United States. In the Series
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
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Alabama’s newly elected Black member of Congress stands on shoulders of family
Shomari Figures has lived his entire life in the shadow of public service. His uncle was an assistant U.S. attorney. His father, Michael Figures, was a civil rights lawyer who served in the Alabama Senate for 18 years. When his father died in 1996, his mother won his seat and took up the fight for…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
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Ayota v. Fall
The Southern Poverty Law Center and civil rights groups filed an emergency lawsuit after Cobb County, Georgia, election officials failed to send out more than 3,000 absentee ballots to voters ahead of a Nov. 5, 2024, deadline to return their ballots by mail. The emergency complaint by the SPLC, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
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Westside Atlanta entrepreneur heads SPLC project to build office complex there
Before it can build the springboard for the community outreach it envisions for its offices in Atlanta, the Southern Poverty Law Center is taking a community first approach. Who better than someone who has spent two decades doing just that? To bring to reality its dream of a vibrant office campus that will help…
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Mississippi underfunding worsens a racially disparate education system
Mississippi’s education system has consistently ranked at or near the bottom nationally due to chronic underfunding as well as systemic issues of poverty and racial injustice that are rooted in the legacy of chattel slavery and oppression. For Black and Brown children in Mississippi, who comprise nearly a plurality of the state’s public school students,…
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Not Just a Joke: Understanding & Preventing Gender- & Sexuality-Based Bigotry
Young people are particularly vulnerable to gender- and sexuality-based disinformation and extremist manipulation. The network of adults who care for and support young people in their homes and schools and throughout their communities play pivotal roles in helping them build resilience against such manipulation. Not Just a Joke: Understanding & Preventing Gender- & Sexuality-Based Bigotry helps…
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Georgia’s youth legal system overemphasizes punishment
In 2022, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that three teenagers died within weeks of each other in Georgia’s youth detention facilities – one after participating in a “fight game” in front of a correctional officer – drawing scrutiny to how incarcerated youth in Georgia are treated. However, these reports of abuse told a troublesome narrative of…
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