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Mississippi is funding its charter schools through an unconstitutional scheme that diverts public tax dollars from traditional public schools, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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This week has been a hard one for all of us and a telling one for the country.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the deadly attack on police officers in Dallas is by Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen:
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SPLC President Richard Cohen testified today about the threat of radical-right terrorism before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts.
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A city judge in Bogalusa, La., has agreed to temporarily stop jailing indigent people who can’t pay fines or court costs and to stop collecting extension fees and court costs that fund his court, according to a joint agreement filed today in federal court.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin is by Rhonda Brownstein, Southern Poverty Law Center legal director.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Supreme Court ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Deferred Action for Parental Arrivals programs is by Naomi Tsu, Southern Poverty Law Center deputy legal director.
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A city court judge in Bogalusa, Louisiana, is operating a modern-day debtors’ prison by illegally jailing indigent people unable to pay fines or court costs – including a man fined for stealing $5 worth of food to feed his family, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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A year ago today, a young white supremacist gunned down nine black parishioners at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, marking the violent start to a lethal year of extremist violence in the United States.
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SPLC President Richard Cohen told members of a congressional panel today that the nearly two-year delay in bringing criminal charges against armed militiamen who confronted federal officials in Nevada played a role in this year’s standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
