Fewer Alabamians will see minor traffic fines turn into a nightmarish cycle of court debt and incarceration after dozens of municipalities cut ties with Judicial Correction Services and other private ‘probation’ companies.
The film about the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march encourages civic engagement as voter suppression laws take hold in many states.
Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, fulfilling our democracy’s promise to African Americans still bound by the chains of Jim Crow.
Because the state of Alabama refused to recognize Paul Hard’s marriage, he was previously unable to receive monetary proceeds from a wrongful death suit after his husband was killed.
The Teaching Tolerance film encourages voting and civic engagement by recounting the dramatic story of the students and teachers who braved intimidation, violence and arrest during the campaign for equality in Selma.
Campaign aims to identify and eliminate government-sanctioned symbols honoring the Confederacy. Please send examples in your community.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore continues to “flout and violate” the state’s code of judicial ethics.
Four years after the SPLC filed a civil rights complaint, the U.S. Department of Justice has found that Georgia discriminates against students with disabilities by segregating them from other students.
SPLC investigators have uncovered dozens of online posts by John Russell Houser praising Hitler, expressing interest in white supremacist groups and antigovernment conspiracy theories, and musing about the “the power of the lone wolf.”
