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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
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Louisiana Court Bars State Agencies from Sweeping Encampments Without Constitutional Protections
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Today, the Orleans Civil District Court delivered a significant win to the unhoused community in New Orleans, granting a preliminary injunction preventing the Louisiana State Police and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries from removing, evicting, displacing — also known as “sweeping” — encampments without constitutional protections. The order also stops…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
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SPLC: New Proposed Rule Would Deal Devastating Blow to Asylum Seekers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, the Biden administration proposed a new administrative rule further restricting access for individuals seeking asylum in the U.S. If adopted, the rule would allow asylum officers to apply extremely complicated legal standards during an asylum seeker’s initial interview to determine eligibility — decisions previously reserved for immigration judges. At the interview…
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- LGBTQ Rights
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Teachers Sue to Block Florida’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Pronoun Ban
Subsection 3 stigmatizes Florida’s transgender and nonbinary teachers for being themselves at work.
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SPLC Report Exposes Network Behind Junk Science and Disinformation Campaign Against the LGBTQ+ Community
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a sweeping new report that details how pseudoscience has become a tool of the far right to manipulate public opinion and advance legislation and legal action targeting the LGBTQ+ community. “Disinformation from junk science is dangerous,” said Rachel Carroll Rivas, deputy director of research,…
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The Southern Poverty Law Center Closes on Site of Future Campus on Atlanta’s Westside
SPLC plans to kick off community outreach projects and initiatives, including improvements to Atlanta BeltLine access, new sidewalks, art installations and more
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Standing In Power and the Decatur Community Demand Justice for Steve Perkins
MONTGOMERY — This week, Standing In Power (S.I.P.), in partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Alabama State Office, raised two billboards demanding justice for the death of Steve Perkins, who was senselessly killed by a Decatur police officer in front of his home in the early hours of Sept. 29. The billboards are located in Montgomery at 1424 Madison Avenue W/O Hopper (Google…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
SPLC Challenges Florida Governor’s Suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell
Lawsuit filed on behalf of Florida voters seeks a court order to reinstate duly elected State Attorney
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Groups Threaten Suit over Charlotte County Public Schools’ LGBTQ+ Book Ban Policy
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sent a demand letter today on behalf of All Rainbow and Allied Youth (ARAY) and PFLAG Port Charlotte urging the School Board of Charlotte County and Superintendent Mark Vianello to end the district’s discriminatory ban on books with LGBTQ+ characters and content. The policy prohibits all books with LGBTQ+ characters…
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Learning for Justice Releases Curriculum Framework for Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice (LFJ) program released a new curriculum framework to help educators, parents and caregivers teach high school-age students about Black Americans’ struggle for equality and civil rights in the United States from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s to the present.…
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Karen Baynes-Dunning Elected as Chair of the SPLC Board of Directors
First Woman and Black Woman to Serve as Chair
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