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SPLC staff recommend these films and TV shows to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which commemorates the contributions of a vibrant, diverse and culturally rich community. The AAPI community represents 20.6 million people in the U.S., encompassing a wide array of languages, religions and cultural traditions. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Affinity Group recommends the…
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Male supremacists entrench their ideas in the Trump administration, policy
Far-right extremists celebrated President Donald Trump’s 2024 election as an opportunity to further entrench a male supremacist culture that is permissive to violence against women. And within his first 100 days, Trump has validated their optimism. Through his appointments of white men dogged by allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and violence, Trump has publicly affirmed…
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Whose Heritage? Confederate statues were built to keep us in our place
Let’s stop pretending. Confederate monuments were never about “remembering history.” They were built to remind Black people exactly who was in charge — and to glorify the people who fought to keep us enslaved. They’re not just stone and bronze. They’re warnings. They’re threats. And they’ve been allowed to stand for far too long. Every…
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Coalition Letter to Senate Urging Opposition to the Antisemitism Awareness Act
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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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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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Whose Heritage? 4th Edition: Report Resources
The following material sources were cited in the reporting of the Whose Heritage? 4th Edition. (Click on arrows to reveal passage in report.) Part I: Whose Heritage Do Confederate Memorials Represent? Part II: The Contemporary Landscape Part III: New Forms of Public Memory
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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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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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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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