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Health care worker forced to cast ballot amid hours-long lines, lack of social distancing
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July 28, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement following reports that President Trump has issued an order to the Department of Homeland Security to start...
July 28, 2020
WASHINGTON — The murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man out for a jog in Georgia, thrust controversial Stand Your Ground laws back into the headlines. To better inform the debate around these dangerous laws, Giffords Law Center and...
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Will Dismukes, a representative in Alabama’s state house, posted Sunday on Facebook about his participation in an event that day honoring KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest. The event was hosted at the home of Pat Godwin, a longtime member of neo-Confederate hate group the League of the South.
July 28, 2020
WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the statement below after the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate introduced their second COVID-19 relief package this afternoon. Their $1 trillion...
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Seven years after its founding, Black Lives Matter has awakened an anti-racist movement that now spans the globe
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First grants awarded; second round application process underway
July 28, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces the first round of Vote Your Voice grants to 12 voter outreach organizations across the Deep South as part of the $30 million voter mobilization...
July 27, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to State Rep. Will Dismukes’ (R-Prattville, Ala.) public celebration of Nathan Bedford Forrest — a Confederate...
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