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Sapelo Island’s Geechee community fighting to keep its culture and soul intact
Editor’s note: This is the third story in the “Gullah-Geechee vs. Greed” series about the fight to preserve the last of the Black communities on these islands off the southeast Atlantic coast. Despite sprawling thousands of acres off the Georgia shoreline, Sapelo Island has managed to keep a low profile for a very long time. Traces…
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SPLC Applauds Federal Court’s Decision to Block Layoffs During Federal Shutdown
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) applauds U.S. District Judge Susan Illston’s decision to block the Trump administration from implementing any new or existing layoffs in relation to the current federal shutdown. These cuts have impacted over 4,000 civil servants across seven agencies and have been suggested by many experts as potentially…
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Mississippi Truth, Poverty and Democracy tour talks health care in Delta region
The fourth day of the 2025 Truth, Poverty and Democracy Tour swung through Mississippi’s Delta region, hearing concerns from health care workers and residents as federal funding cuts for individual health care loom on the horizon. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi tour, which was designed for community leaders, legislators and representatives from aid groups to hear…
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On Hilton Head Island, Gullah people fight for their land — and their legacy
Editor’s note: This is the second story in the “Gullah-Geechee vs. Greed” series about the fight to preserve the last of the Black communities on these islands off the southeast Atlantic coast. Taiwan Scott eased off the gas as he turned onto Alfred Lane in the Spanish Wells community of South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island. Overhead,…
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SPLC Mississippi listening tour dives into generational wealth discussion
The Natchez, Mississippi, leg of the second annual Truth, Poverty and Democracy Tour across Mississippi’s Delta region touched on the ways in which Black residents could harness the type of generational wealth that had eluded — or, in many cases, had been stripped from — their predecessors. Sara Miller, a senior policy analyst with Hope…
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Defend Atlanta Schools
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) is preparing a 10- to 15-year facilities plan that could result in the closure or merger of schools across the city. These decisions will directly affect students, families and neighborhoods — and once again, APS is relying on closures and consolidations instead of addressing the deeper issues. This cycle isn’t new.…
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SPLC and Global Black Economic Forum Unite to Defend Knoxville Nonprofit Against Federal Challenge Attacking Anti-Poverty Microloan Program
SPLC and GBEF stand ready to oppose ideological “lawfare” against local nonprofit MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Global Black Economic Forum (GBEF) will appear in federal court on behalf of The Women Foundation and The Women LLC in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Alliance for…
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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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