It was a good day to be in Selma, even if the misting rain kept people away until the afternoon sun broke through. Vice President Kamala Harris addresses Jubilee attendees. (Credit: Alyssa Pointer) But while the gray clouds threatened before they were …
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (DOJ) announced a settlement agreement with the Pasco County School District last night to end discrimination against students with disabilities in school discipline, threat …
Fifty-nine years ago, Jimmie Lee Jackson joined a peaceful march in Marion, Alabama, just outside Selma, the epicenter of the 1960s voting rights movement. The 26-year-old was among thousands across the South who were standing up against Jim Crow in the …
MONTGOMERY, Ala — After the discovery that voters in Alabama’s newly formed majority-Black congressional district received erroneous information, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement. Over the weekend, the SPLC became …
MONTGOMERY, Ala — After the discovery that voters in Alabama’s newly formed majority-Black congressional district received erroneous information from the Alabama Secretary of State’s office, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following …
This dynamic is not new. The UPP NC event, called “Operation Hold the Line,” was a product of the anti-immigrant environment produced by the xenophobic posturing of hate groups and politicians, and the controversial impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, the …
While praising Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s reasoning in a recent case to which ADF submitted an amicus brief, Fowler accused the longtime FACT ally of supplying “inconsistent” information to state legislators about the legal power of state …
Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised. Two rented buses recently ferried 27 social justice advocates along U.S. Route 90 in Baker County, Florida, past long, empty miles of sand pine scrub on …
According to court documents, Genco wrote in his manifesto that his goal was, “the death of what I have been deprived of most, but also cherished and fantasize at the opportunity of having but has been neglected of; Women. I will slaughter out of hatred, …
Anti-LGBTQ+ hate group appears to blame trans rights for attacks on trans-affirming churches Hatewatch published an analysis piece on a report from the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Family Research Council (FRC) that claimed to show an increase in “acts of …
On a quiet street in Alabama’s capital, Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy stand 15 feet tall, composed of pieces of mixed metal welded together. They represent the enslaved Black women and girls whom art activist Michelle Browder calls the “Mothers of Gynecology.” …
According to LGBTQ+ religious advocates, the co-opting of LGBTQ+ Christians’ victimization by far-right violence is part of a political agenda to further the false notion that LGBTQ+ people cannot also be religious. That idea ultimately sustains far-right …
On Feb. 8, 2016, my 75-year-old mother and her friend were killed while reading the morning paper and drinking coffee – two elderly women shot point blank for their credit cards. My mother was visiting a friend who had recently lost her husband when the …
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson posted an interview with a leader of white nationalist hate group VDARE on “Tucker Carlson Uncensored,” on social media including X and YouTube last week. Lydia Brimelow, VDARE officer and wife of the group’s founder …
It had seemed like such a blessing. A single parent living in a homeless shelter, eight months pregnant with her second child, Ayran Tucker was ecstatic when a townhouse opened up in Forest Cove, an affordable housing complex in Southeast Atlanta. At the …
A convoy to Eagle Pass is part of a broader landscape where elected officials rely on anti-immigrant messages to justify Texas’ attempts to assert supremacy over the federal government, the impeachment of the secretary of Homeland Security secretary …
Charles Person, now 80 years old, is the youngest of 13 original Freedom Riders. He says that when you are working toward effecting positive change, you should “never, ever give up.” He knows what he’s talking about. Person never gives up. As a young man, …
The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 may have paved the way for the desegregation of schools in the United States, but in the Jim Crow South it was no more than a gravel path at best. It wasn’t until six years …
MONTGOMERY — On Friday, March 1 at 1:00 p.m., the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC), a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Alabama State Office open Jubilee weekend with its annual wreath laying ceremony. Since 1998, the Faith …
As we approach the commemoration of Bloody Sunday, honoring people who undertook the march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights in 1965, I’m reminded of the bravery and sacrifice of these individuals who defended our democracy. This year marks the …
