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Descendants of last slave ship arriving in US share history with students
Earlier this spring, a group of college students from Auburn University, Chicago’s Governors State University and members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn traveled by boat to a narrow stretch of the Mobile River, just north of the Mobile Bay Delta in Alabama. Along with them were a journalism professor and a handful…
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SPLC grants support organizations that seek to remove Confederate symbols
Once a month, members of the Committee for Justice, Equality and Fairness (CJEF) meet in the small back room of Sandra Macon’s church to discuss what to do about the problem at the Walton County Courthouse in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. Just outside the courthouse stands a marble pillar erected in honor of “Walton County’s Confederate…
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‘Mothers of the Movement’: Civil rights activists from past to present
Often recognized as the backbone of the Civil Rights Movement, Black women have played an integral role in organizing for justice and democracy. While prevailing gender roles may have prevented some from stepping to the forefront, each of these women were trailblazers who made indelible contributions to furthering human rights and democracy. In honor of…
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SPLC explores social justice innovation
A workers rights organization pairs with a tech startup to get unemployment benefits for gig drivers in Philadelphia. A domestic workers alliance raises $30 million in weeks to put cash in the pockets of housekeepers, nannies and caregivers thrown out of work during the pandemic. A reproductive rights group responds to the blinding series of…
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SPLC lawyer Nancy Abudu confirmed to 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
It was on Saturdays, in the basement of a small townhouse near her childhood home, that Nancy Abudu got her first lessons in the power of standing up for her beliefs. There, Abudu’s father, an immigrant from Ghana struggling to raise two daughters alone in Alexandria, Virginia, left behind a series of day jobs to…
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SPLC mourns death of Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte, the award-winning singer, actor and civil rights activist who died today at 96, made enormous contributions to society that continue to inspire our fight for the freedom and liberation of Black and Brown people. Belafonte broke down racial barriers as the first Black man to win a Tony Award on Broadway and the…
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‘Pivot Point’: SPLC celebrates life of minister killed during civil rights protest
The afternoon was warm and sunny on April 7, 1964, when Joanne Klunder took her two young children to the Cleveland zoo. Her husband, the Rev. Bruce Klunder, set out in the opposite direction, to protest an evil that he and his wife deeply opposed – school segregation. Before the day was out the white…
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‘Never Again’: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, extremists are still using Nazi rhetoric and tactics
Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – has become increasingly important not only for remembering the horrors of the Holocaust, or Shoah, but for reflecting on what we can learn from it and how to apply these lessons today as antisemitism surges in the U.S. Antisemitic incidents reached an all-time high in the U.S. in…
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Crisis and Resilience: SPLC’s Mississippi office works to help victims of devastating tornado
James Ray has been busy over the last couple of weeks. The house on Front Street in Silver City, Mississippi, that his father left him 18 years ago is still a shambles. Pieces of tin roofing curl up toward the sky where the winds from an EF4 tornado tried to rip them from the joists.…
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Nick Fuentes Holds Racist Conference Across From CPAC
White nationalist Nick Fuentes booked a hotel across the street from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the National Harbor for a racist, post-CPAC conference Saturday.