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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Advocates hope LFJ podcast relaunch will disrupt ‘hard history’ continuum
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice (LFJ) program is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series — with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries — to resist current efforts aimed at altering our nation’s history. So, just what is hard history? In the short TEDx video “Confronting Hard History,” Jeffries explains: “[American slavery is] hard history because it’s difficult to…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
SPLC report: Medicaid expansion can rectify harm to Black people in Deep South
For decades, Tina Payne’s hands moved with mechanical precision, operating machinery in a catfish processing plant in the Mississippi Delta. The grueling labor took a lasting toll on Payne’s body, leaving her with multiple injuries that eventually led to her disability. When Payne applied for Medicaid, she expected the system she had paid into for…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Naples, Florida, Pride event succeeds despite persistent hate group opposition
Content warning: This article contains an image depicting anti-LGBTQ+ violence. Reader discretion is advised. Naples Pride held its annual community event at Cambier Park in Naples, Florida, on June 7, attracting thousands of attendees despite a years-long opposition campaign by hard-right groups and local government. Naples Pride overcame a last-minute legal challenge from the city…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Echoing the Past: White supremacy, the policing of drag and Black resilience
The policing of gender has become a common tactic among some policymakers, whether it’s banning trans people in sports, legislation regulating bathroom usage or the targeting of drag performances. Such attacks can echo the past. The targeting of drag performances is no exception — especially when one considers drag’s history within the Black community. Drag,…
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When valuing family demands significant personal change
For the last five years, I’ve had the extraordinary opportunity to lead the Southern Poverty Law Center. My position was more than just a job. It was rooted in my deep belief that all people deserve to live with dignity and respect. It’s what’s driven my human rights work for the past three decades. In the…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
July 2025 Intelligence Project Dispatch: Trends and incidents of the hard right
The Southern Poverty Law Center works to dismantle white supremacy in public forums and online, exposes hate and anti-democracy extremism and counters disinformation and conspiracy theories with research and community resources. The Intelligence Project monitors and exposes white supremacy and its impact on communities. Hate prevention Anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim activity Militia and antigovernment movement activity…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
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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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Antifeminist women’s summit: ‘The kitchen is where the real revolution starts’
Thousands of people gathered in Grapevine, Texas, to attend Turning Point USA’s 10th annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit in June. For three days, prominent conservative women made a pitch to a crowd of women and girls mostly in their teens and 20s: Trade feminism for femininity, ditch your career aspirations, and focus on finding your…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Letter strongly urging Senate to vote no on the Budget Reconciliation bill
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
In a systemically racist nation, apathy is a luxury Black people cannot afford
Growing up Black in Alabama, I saw firsthand how systemic inequities shaped daily life. I watched my mother endure hours-long waits in overcrowded clinics, my aunt struggle with unstable housing and law enforcement officers profile and brutalize Black men and women. These were symptoms of a broader system that denied Black and Brown communities access…
