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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Permission To Learn: Cultivating Lifelong Learning in Students and Educators
Reimagining education to cultivate curiosity, questioning, dialogue and critical thinking can develop students’ lifelong learning disposition and capacity for meaningful participation in a democratic society.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
How We Got Here and How We Move Forward (With Our Heads Held High)
Bold action and transformative interventions are necessary to reimagine and creae an education system that ends harm and advances justice and racial equity.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Out of the Ashes: Building a New American Democracy
The erosion of institutions to safeguard democracy is an invitation to imagine a new democracy resilient enough to resist authoritarianism and inclusive enough to serve all.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Reimagining Presidents Day
Presidents Day offers an opportunity to consider how U.S. presidents have used power — for good or harm — and what that means for us.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Young, et al. v. Lee, et al.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, the Education Law Center, the Southern Education Foundation and the law firm of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s universal voucher program on behalf of public school parents and community members who argue the law violates students’ constitutional…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Virginia plantation’s story focuses on the formerly enslaved, not the enslavers
Vincent Carter, 72, has lived his entire life in Gum Springs, Virginia. The town is within walking distance of George Washington’s Mount Vernon — an estate where Carter’s ancestors were enslaved — and Woodlawn, another historic plantation-turned-museum built on 2,000 acres taken from the original Mount Vernon property. “My great-great-grandfather on my mother’s side guarded…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
February 2026 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. Anti-democracy efforts Militia and antigovernment movement activity Hate prevention Anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim activity…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Mills v. Connelly, et al.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Louisiana’s Justice Lab, the Social Justice Legal Foundation (SJLF) and the law firm of Hueston Hennigan LLP, provided legal representation to Nia Mills, a Black woman subjected to prolonged detention, extensive property searches and ongoing emotional harm when West Baton Rouge…
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