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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Hispanic Heritage and Atlanta Pride: The South’s power, legacy and defiance
This October, the South isn’t waiting to be seen — it’s leading. National Hispanic Heritage Month and the Atlanta Pride celebration stand as twin testaments to how communities across the region continue to shape the nation’s conscience. At the center of that legacy stands Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon and co-founder of the United…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Sapelo Island’s Geechee community fighting to keep its culture and soul intact
Editor’s note: This is the third story in the “Gullah-Geechee vs. Greed” series about the fight to preserve the last of the Black communities on these islands off the southeast Atlantic coast. Despite sprawling thousands of acres off the Georgia shoreline, Sapelo Island has managed to keep a low profile for a very long time. Traces…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Hate Crimes, Explained
The starting point for understanding hate crimes and their impact is to recognize that criminal activity motivated by bias is different from other criminal conduct. First, these crimes occur because of the perpetrator’s bias or animus against the victim on the basis of actual or perceived status. The victim’s race, religion, ethnicity, gender, gender identity,…
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Stew Peters promotes antisemitism through Holocaust denial and conspiratorial propaganda
Stew Peters is a far-right conspiracy theorist, propagandist and radio host whose program The Stew Peters Show has become a central hub for antisemitic and conspiratorial content. Peters positions himself as a courageous whistleblower who exposes globalist elites, but his content rests on virulent antisemitism, Holocaust denial and appeals to violent nationalism. Peters amplifies antisemitic…
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Stew Peters
Stew Peters is a far-right conspiracy theorist, propagandist and radio host whose program The Stew Peters Show has become a central hub for antisemitic and conspiratorial content. Peters positions himself as a courageous whistleblower who exposes globalist elites, but his content rests on virulent antisemitism, Holocaust denial and appeals to violent nationalism. Peters amplifies antisemitic…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Hate group’s political rally at California church could test federal law
When the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Family Research Council (FRC) hosts its annual political conference on Oct. 17 at a Chino, California, megachurch led by Christian nationalist pastor Jack Hibbs, it will come during a year in which the Christian right made inroads into using tax-exempt church resources to influence politics, with the possibility of more…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Mississippi Truth, Poverty and Democracy tour talks health care in Delta region
The fourth day of the 2025 Truth, Poverty and Democracy Tour swung through Mississippi’s Delta region, hearing concerns from health care workers and residents as federal funding cuts for individual health care loom on the horizon. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi tour, which was designed for community leaders, legislators and representatives from aid groups to hear…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
On Hilton Head Island, Gullah people fight for their land — and their legacy
Editor’s note: This is the second story in the “Gullah-Geechee vs. Greed” series about the fight to preserve the last of the Black communities on these islands off the southeast Atlantic coast. Taiwan Scott eased off the gas as he turned onto Alfred Lane in the Spanish Wells community of South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island. Overhead,…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
SPLC Mississippi listening tour dives into generational wealth discussion
The Natchez, Mississippi, leg of the second annual Truth, Poverty and Democracy Tour across Mississippi’s Delta region touched on the ways in which Black residents could harness the type of generational wealth that had eluded — or, in many cases, had been stripped from — their predecessors. Sara Miller, a senior policy analyst with Hope…
