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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Lawsuit, investigation target Mississippi’s special education service failures
E.J. was diagnosed with dyslexia while she was in the first grade. She repeated the academic year, but without ever receiving specific dyslexia reading help, the sixth grader now reads at a second-grade level. B.W., an 11th grader, was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the second grade. His marks began nosediving two years ago…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
10 ways you can safeguard our inclusive libraries and fight book banning
As book banning becomes normalized, attacks on public and school libraries continue to escalate nationwide. The past few years have seen an unprecedented rise in challenges and removals of library books, with many targeting books that explore themes related to LGBTQ+ identities, race, gender and disability. The Southern Poverty Law Center and Read Freely Alabama…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Rosa Parks’ defiance — and the boycott it fueled — can teach us in this moment
Each year hundreds of visitors, many of them young students, travel to Montgomery, Alabama, to visit the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University. There they learn how, on Dec. 1, 1955, Parks’ refusal to vacate her seat for a white passenger on a crowded city bus would spark a movement, one that helped usher in…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Op-ed details the risks and harms of Florida’s off-cycle redistricting attempt
As the fight over control of the U.S. Congress in next year’s midterm elections approaches, the unprecedented, mid-decade strategic maneuvering to redistrict voting maps has been a constant hum beneath the surface. But the idea of wholesale redistricting without a new census that would provide population data for how those districts should be drawn has…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Florida’s Gulf Correctional Institution
Head strikes, body slams, stabbings, chemical agents sprayed within inches of the face — this isn’t a dramatized portrayal of prison violence for a splashy television series. This is the daily reality for incarcerated people at Gulf Correctional Institution and many other Florida prisons. Gulf is one of the most brutal prisons run by the…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
10 great reads that highlight Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
On Dec. 1, 1955 — 70 years ago today — Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. Parks’ arrest led to the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott, the first major event of the Civil Rights Movement. The boycott began on Dec.…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
SPLC Comment to DHS-USCIS Opposing Recent SORN for SAVE Program
SPLC Comment to the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services opposing recent changes to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program that risk disenfranchising eligible citizens and sowing distrust in elections.
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Breaking the Myths: The truth about immigration under the Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” These horrific words from then-presidential candidate Donald Trump have fueled dangerous stereotypes about immigrants. As the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants, I have seen how anti-immigrant rhetoric has haunted my community with lies. The recently passed…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Alabama youth used advocacy to rise above after unjust school suspension
There aren’t many people who can say that they’ve had an audience at the United Nations. But at 20 years old, CJ Jones has done it twice — on two different continents. Last year, he flew from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Geneva, Switzerland, to address the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent with a delegation…
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