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December 16, 2019
MONTGOMERY, AL — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center staff voted to join the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. The following is a statement by SPLC Interim CEO and President Karen Baynes-Dunning: “We look forward to...
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The two suspects in this week’s deadly attack in a Hasidic neighborhood in Jersey City, New Jersey, held views that reflected a hatred of Jewish people and law enforcement, New Jersey’s attorney general said Thursday.
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On November 7, 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center received a notice from the National Labor Relations Board that the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild seeks to represent certain employees through the formation of a union.
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The first African American elected mayor of Montgomery, Alabama – a city known as both the “Cradle of the Confederacy” and the “Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement” – urged those who gathered today to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Civil Rights Memorial to ask themselves how they can make an impact on the lives of others.
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Carolyn Wells Gee was in bed watching TV with her younger sister when she heard the shot that killed Medgar Evers.
October 25, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Civil Rights Memorial with a special two-day event in November. The Civil Rights Memorial , dedicated by the SPLC on Nov. 5,...
October 22, 2019
"For Trump to characterize a legal impeachment inquiry as a lynching shows a complete disrespect for the thousands of Black people lynched — murdered — throughout our nation's history in acts of racism and hatred. Trump needs a...
