Reports
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Hate Crimes, Explained
The starting point for understanding hate crimes and their impact is to recognize that criminal activity motivated by bias is different from other criminal conduct. First, these crimes occur because of the perpetrator’s bias or animus against the victim on the basis of actual or perceived status. The victim’s race, religion, ethnicity, gender, gender identity,…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
The State of Special Education in Mississippi
Mississippi’s education system has consistently ranked at or near the bottom nationally due to chronic underfunding as well as systemic issues of poverty and racial injustice that are rooted in the legacy of chattel slavery and oppression. Mississippi’s special education system, which is meant to provide a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) to children…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Mississippi State of the State
Mississippi has consistently been at the forefront of radical shifts, serving as ground zero in the struggle for democracy and freedom from its start. The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi has played a vital role in securing voting rights and political representation for marginalized people, especially those who had been systematically disenfranchised and denied a…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Report: Florida’s self-proclaimed ‘tough love’ policies hurt Black youth
Five years ago in Orlando, Florida, a 6-year-old Black girl named Kaia Rolle was arrested after throwing a tantrum in class. The viral video of her being escorted out of her school and into a police car, despite her tearful pleas for a second chance, illustrates Florida’s well-developed school-to-prison pipeline – policies and practices that…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
How the Right Uses Abortion Restrictions to Reinforce Racist and Gendered Hierarchies
The Dobbs decision, which took away the constitutional right to abortion, was a massive and long-sought victory for the far right. Severely restricting or banning abortion is a core part of their political program, one that is deeply intertwined with the movement’s broader goal of creating a society structured by rigid hierarchies – not only…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
The Community Cost of Abortion Restrictions
Access to safe and legal abortion is a crucial issue with vast implications that go far beyond individual freedom and bodily autonomy. Its denial not only restricts doctors from providing necessary medical care based on a patient’s clinical needs and erodes the physician-patient relationship, but it also weakens the quality of health care delivery and…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Abortion Clinics Face Increased Harassment Post-Roe
Those who work in abortion care have long understood the impact overturning Roe would have on their work. Still, the scene outside the Supreme Court the day Dobbs was announced put it into stark relief. “They were really emboldened,” Melissa Fowler, chief program officer for the National Abortion Federation (NAF), said of anti-abortion activists gathered…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
The Landscape of Today’s Anti-Abortion Movement
The early, post-Roe v. Wade anti-abortion movement was largely defined by small, local activist groups, oftentimes connected to the Catholic Church. Today, it is a sprawling, well-funded, far-right operation that seeks to outlaw abortion entirely while severely restricting other forms of reproductive autonomy. It produces propaganda meant to shame and discourage people from seeking abortion…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
The Violent History of the Anti-Abortion Movement
The overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, was the work of a movement laboring for decades. Though this victory for the anti-abortion movement was won in the courts, the judiciary represents only one of the U.S. institutions that’s being targeted by the widespread movement: in addition…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Executive Summary: The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Extremist Playbook
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, upending a half-century of precedent. Since then, 14 states have outlawed abortion, three others have effectively banned the procedure by making it illegal after roughly 6 weeks of pregnancy, and at least 66 abortion clinics have…
