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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Trump’s Executive Order on Antisemitism — Explained
Image at top: President Donald Trump walks out after speaking at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit on Dec. 8, 2020, in Washington. (Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
School system in Louisiana still failing to educate students with disabilities
Terra Boyd, a former New Orleans-area teacher, has spent the past two years of her retirement fighting for her grandson against his public charter school. The school, she says, has failed to educate him under the terms of his Individualized Education Program (IEP) — a violation of federal laws for children with disabilities. Boyd even…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Trump Reinstates Discriminatory and Unconstitutional Policing — Explained
What happened? On his first day in office, President Trump rescinded former President Biden’s executive order on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety. Provisions in the Biden order were intended to inject accountability into law enforcement, such as creating a National Law Enforcement Accountability Database to…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Executive Actions that Undermine Our Freedoms
Several executive orders that President Trump signed would cause great harm to individuals as well as our democratic institutions. Here are explanations of how:
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Cigar Factory Strike: Celebrating Southern heritage — not the Confederacy
Since 1994, several Southern states each year have observed “Confederate Heritage Month” in April. From the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865, Confederate leaders stated explicitly and repeatedly that they fought to protect slavery and to further white supremacy. That is…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
The Trump Cabinet’s War on Our Rights
These aren’t just policies — they’re deliberate attacks on our communities. Trump’s Cabinet uses its power to roll back civil rights, deepen racial injustice, and rig the system against us. We name names and show the damage — because we refuse to let history repeat itself. Click “View” to see how actions by these members…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Whose Heritage?
Since 2022, the year of the third edition of this report, progress in the number of Confederate memorials removed or renamed has slowed, but it has not stopped. The work continues. This fourth installment of SPLC’s Whose Heritage? report offers an evolving assessment of thethreats and harms that find continued life through Confederate symbols, “Lost…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Whose Heritage? Community Action Guide
Across the South, Americans of all races, ethnicities and creeds are asking why governmental bodies in a democracy based on the promise of equality should display symbols so closely associated with the bondage and oppression of African Americans.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Part III: New Forms of Public Memory
Our Heritage Lost Cause mythology holds that Confederate symbols do not represent white supremacy or an attempt to rewrite history but instead embody an innocuous preserving of “Southern heritage.” This is not true. Historical evidence reveals that the existence of more than 2,000 Confederate memorials across the country is the result of an organized propaganda…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Part II: The Contemporary Landscape
The Politics of Civil War Memory At no point during the Civil War did any Confederate symbol come within six miles of the U.S. Capitol. Yet on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioter Kevin Seefried carried a Confederate battle flag right inside. What we think of today as the Confederate flag was one of many flags…
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