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Gullah-Geechee culture, once isolated, now on the brink as world encroaches
Editor’s note: This is the first story in the “Gullah-Geechee vs. Greed” series about the fight to preserve the last of the Black communities on these islands of the southeast Atlantic coast. From the outside, Bobby Grovner’s house on Sapelo Island, Georgia, is a humble but neat affair, its freshly mowed lawn roughly abutting the…
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Truth, poverty and democracy on display as tour gets underway in Mississippi
The morning of Sept. 30 in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, was beautiful. It was also uplifting as some three dozen “pilgrims” began the second annual Truth, Poverty and Democracy Tour at the Mississippi State Capitol. The tour, organized through the efforts of Waikinya Clanton, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi state office and her…
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SPLC rolls out second annual Mississippi Truth, Poverty and Democracy Tour
For three days in October 2024, a bus crisscrossed the Mississippi Delta region carrying dozens of community leaders, legislators and representatives from aid groups, bringing them into rural communities where people who most need their services and leadership live. That Southern Poverty Law Center outreach effort was so successful — and the challenges facing people…
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One Big Ugly Bill Toolkit for Advocates in the Deep South
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Trouble Accessing TANF in Mississippi?
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a program that was designed to help low-income families with children achieve economic self-sufficiency. Unfortunately, many families in Mississippi are denied TANF benefits, and we want to know why.
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‘40 acres and a mule’ was no myth: Royal, Florida’s fight for land and freedom
Forget what you’ve been told: 40 acres and a mule — the federal government’s broken promise of land to newly freed Black Americans — wasn’t a myth. It happened. And in Royal, Florida, it’s a legacy. Black families have safeguarded land first secured after the Civil War for more than 160 years — a history…
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Impact of Trump’s One Big Ugly Budget Bill on the Deep South
Families across the country are working hard to stay afloat — paying more for everything from groceries to rent to health care. President Trump’s One Big Ugly Budget bill (“this law”) guts basic needs programs for low-income people — cutting $1 trillion in Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace spending, along with $187 billion…
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The 2025 Truth, Poverty, and Democracy Tour — Mississippi
Why This Tour Matters Join us for a five-day journey that sheds light on the deep connections between poverty, systemic inequalities, and democracy. Learn from community leaders, advocates, and those directly impacted by these issues as we work toward a more just and equitable society. Tour updates Location and topic schedule 2025 Truth, Poverty and…
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Victims of Jackson, Mississippi, water crisis face eviction from their homes
For weeks this summer, Doris Glasper’s taps were dry. She had paid her rent and utility bills. She knew that much. But her apartment complex’s owner had not. He owed more than $100,000 to JXN Water, the city’s water authority, and the residents of Blossom Apartments were suffering the consequences. The 70-year-old grandmother shares a…
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Five ways you can continue to fight against the ‘One Big Ugly Bill Act’
On the eve of Independence Day, our Republican-led Senate and House moved at breakneck speed to narrowly pass their one big, ugly budget bill that cut hundreds of billions from Medicaid and SNAP to give massive tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy. While President Trump and his supporters celebrate this cruel law that takes…
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