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Real Alternatives: Ending Disciplinary Alternative Education
Thomas, a Black ninth grader from Louisiana, was required to transfer to an alternative school after he was shot. At the time of his exclusion, he had not been arrested or charged with any crime; instead, he was a victim of crime. After being discharged from the hospital, his home high school barred him from…
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Resources: Real Alternatives: Ending Disciplinary Alternative Education
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SPLC Rebukes Trump Administration’s Latest Directive to Militarize U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) condemns the Trump administration’s proposal to install armed agents to dissuade immigrants from using established processes through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This move attempts to criminalize immigrants seeking green cards, naturalized citizenship or those seeking approval under humanitarian programs. Historically, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration…
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SPLC Represents Progressive People’s Action to Intervene in Lawsuit to Defend Rights of Unhoused St. Petersburg Residents
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), on behalf of Progressive People’s Action (PPA), filed a motion to intervene in Whaley v. St. Petersburg. This lawsuit was filed by Ronnica Whaley, the owner of a restaurant in downtown St. Petersburg. In her lawsuit, Whaley requests that the court order the City…
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SPLC Condemns Trump Administration’s Call to Reinstate Death Penalty in Washington, D.C.
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) denounces the Trump administration’s abhorrent directive to reinstate the death penalty in Washington, D.C., to combat “violent crime” in the district, where the crime rate is at its lowest in decades. The administration went even further by suggesting states take similar action and threatening to revoke…
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SPLC Blasts Presidential Executive Orders Eliminating Cashless Bail in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) condemns the presidential executive orders announced today that will eliminate cashless bail for people arrested in Washington, D.C., and will seek to pull federal funding from other cities that have passed common sense reforms. These actions are driven by fearmongering, not facts, since data shows that cashless bail does not lead…
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Trump’s Executive Order Worsening Homelessness Crisis, Explained
SPLC is using every tool at our disposal to fight attacks on people experiencing homelessness. SPLC is standing up for an America where everyone has safe and affordable housing. We hope you’ll join us. For more information, please visit Together We Fight or contact Theresa Lau. Image at top: (Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty…
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Three years after Alabama’s abortion ban, many must make tiring trips for care
About every other day in Alabama, a woman suspecting she is pregnant seeks abortion counseling at an Alabama clinic without knowing how far into the pregnancy she is. She may be a mother with three young children at home. She might be in an abusive relationship. Or perhaps she is a student who someday wants…
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SPLC report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of the United States
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Five years after George Floyd’s death, anger and work toward justice remain
“Say your ABCs. But say it without singing the alphabet song.” This was the first of two commands I was given during a traffic stop in 2002. I was a 25-year-old graduate student in North Carolina, driving home from campus that night. A police officer pulled me over for allegedly speeding on the interstate and…
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