The privately owned Sandersville Railroad Company is threatening to use eminent domain against property owners in a predominantly Black community in Sparta, Georgia, who have refused to sell portions of their land for a rail spur (a separate track that is connected to the main rail line)....
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June 20, 2023
ATLANTA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joins the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in observance of World Refugee Day . For more than two decades, nations around the world, humanitarian aid workers and...
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Members of a whites-only group with extensive ties to the white power movement have purchased a nearly 70-acre property in central Tennessee that they intend to use as a self-described “headquarters,” a Hatewatch investigation found.
After Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed legislation creating a special judicial district within the city of Jackson where judges would be appointed rather than elected – and ultimately disenfranchise Black voters – the Southern Poverty Law Center filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit by...
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June 08, 2023
Tallahassee, Fla. — Today, six Florida cities ended their challenge to HB 1, a 2021 law introduced by Governor Ron DeSantis in response to the racial justice protests of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd and others by...
Hatewatch
The Donald Trump campaign team sent out mailers in early April suggesting that “George Soros is trying to single-handedly purchase the American justice system so that he can weaponize it to crush ALL of his opposition.”
June 08, 2023
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Allen v. Milligan that Alabama’s congressional map denies Black voters a fair number of congressional seats. In July 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center , League of Women...
