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SPLC Action Fund: Trump’s Census Memo is Unlawful and Harmful

July 21, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below after President Trump issued a memo ordering the U.S. Census Bureau to exclude undocumented immigrants living in the...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to DHS Collecting Personal Information on People Deemed “Threatening” to Confederate Monuments

July 21, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to guidance aligned with President Trump’s executive order , which allows collection of personal information and...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to Neshoba Co. Board of Supervisors Decision to Keep Confederate Monument

July 20, 2020

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – Today, the Neshoba County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to keep the Confederate monument located in front of the courthouse despite pleas from the community to remove it. The following statement is from...

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Aryan Strikeforce Leader Gets 20 Years in Prison as Neo-Nazi Gang Falters

July 20, 2020

Brett Barrouquere

The head of the racist skinhead Aryan Strikeforce group is going to prison for 20 years for his role in a drug distribution conspiracy.

SPLC Action Fund Urges Congress to Pass NO BAN Act

July 20, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, in a letter to all Members of Congress , SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang urged representatives to support the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants...

In Win for Alabama Voters, State Extends Emergency Absentee Voting Through November Elections

July 20, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Friday, July 17, 2020, Alabama’s Secretary of State announced that emergency absentee voting would continue through the November 3, 2020, elections. The announcement is a massive win in the fight for...

SPLC Analysis: Racial disparities apparent as hundreds denied parole in Alabama in June

July 20, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Hundreds of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons were denied parole in June, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) analysis published today. SPLC reviewed 452 parole hearings in June and found...

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Hundreds of people denied parole in Alabama as pandemic worsened

July 20, 2020

Will Tucker

White people more than twice as likely as Black counterparts to be granted parole in June

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From preaching to the chickens to preaching to the angels

July 18, 2020

News of the passing of Congressman John Lewis hit me hard. I have never met a more extraordinarily kind and generous man. He was a true testament to the goodness to be found in each of us. I never grew tired of hearing him tell his story.

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis

July 18, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose life’s work to combat racial injustice began in the segregated South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and original group of 13 Freedom Riders...

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SPLC Action Fund: Trump’s Census Memo is Unlawful and Harmful

SPLC Action Fund Responds to DHS Collecting Personal Information on People Deemed “Threatening” to Confederate Monuments

SPLC Action Fund Responds to Neshoba Co. Board of Supervisors Decision to Keep Confederate Monument

Aryan Strikeforce Leader Gets 20 Years in Prison as Neo-Nazi Gang Falters

SPLC Action Fund Urges Congress to Pass NO BAN Act

In Win for Alabama Voters, State Extends Emergency Absentee Voting Through November Elections

SPLC Analysis: Racial disparities apparent as hundreds denied parole in Alabama in June

Hundreds of people denied parole in Alabama as pandemic worsened

From preaching to the chickens to preaching to the angels

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis

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