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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
About the SPLC’s Fashion is Freedom Showcase
The SPLC’s Fashion is Freedom Showcase is a fashion design competition that serves as an exciting and innovative opportunity to engage young fashion enthusiasts in the movement for social change and voter empowerment in Mississippi. In this competition, designers must produce a collection of six original looks, and meet the deadlines and requirements outlined below.…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Learn more about the Alabama Advocacy Institute’s inaugural training program
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Advocacy Institute in Alabama is home to a series of training programs supported by the SPLC staff, subject matter experts, community-based partner organizations and other community stakeholders that offer hands-on policy and advocacy training to provide participants with the skills needed to create positive change throughout our communities. ABOUT THE…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
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Advocate empowers youth in Atlanta neighborhood where SPLC plans new office
KaCey Venning spent four years in school classrooms before she realized that the best way to serve her students was by resigning. The former public school teacher is the co-founder and executive director of Helping Empower Youth (HEY!), a youth development program based in Atlanta’s English Avenue neighborhood – an area with one of the…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Children face hunger across Deep South after states refuse summer food aid
The day school gets out for summer sparkles in the American imagination as a vision of children spilling out of classrooms into joyful weeks of freedom and warmth. But in reality, the summer months bring something else for millions of children across the country: hunger. For people like Shaneka Haynes, a single mother in Atlanta…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
‘Banned From Public Spaces’: Report highlights criminalization of homelessness
In this playlist: People who have experienced homelessness in Athens, Georgia, share stories of facing harassment and inhumane treatment, and discuss how the support they’ve received has enabled them to overcome adversity. Walk through downtown Athens, Georgia, on any given day and you may hear the sound of drumsticks – sometimes heavy, sometimes sharp, sometimes…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee highlights progress and continuing battles
It was a good day to be in Selma, even if the misting rain kept people away until the afternoon sun broke through. But while the gray clouds threatened before they were vanquished, the smell of barbecue competed with the low throb of bass powering old R&B classics along Water Avenue to draw people out…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Congresswoman, activists honor martyrs at Civil Rights Memorial Center
Fifty-nine years ago, Jimmie Lee Jackson joined a peaceful march in Marion, Alabama, just outside Selma, the epicenter of the 1960s voting rights movement. The 26-year-old was among thousands across the South who were standing up against Jim Crow in the face of certain violence and intimidation. His death eight days later – after he…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Women's History Month
Event honors enslaved women subjected to gynecological experiments in Alabama
On a quiet street in Alabama’s capital, Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy stand 15 feet tall, composed of pieces of mixed metal welded together. They represent the enslaved Black women and girls whom art activist Michelle Browder calls the “Mothers of Gynecology.” These girls and others were involuntarily subjected to painful experimental surgeries, without the use…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Tour of Florida historic sites illuminates white supremacy in the legal system
Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised. Two rented buses recently ferried 27 social justice advocates along U.S. Route 90 in Baker County, Florida, past long, empty miles of sand pine scrub on their way to the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park. There, the state’s largest Civil War battle…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Georgia residents displaced from affordable housing denied decent places to live
It had seemed like such a blessing. A single parent living in a homeless shelter, eight months pregnant with her second child, Ayran Tucker was ecstatic when a townhouse opened up in Forest Cove, an affordable housing complex in Southeast Atlanta. At the 296-unit development on a main bus line, Tucker, now 33, hoped she…
