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The Southern Poverty Law Center combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation. Founded in 1971.

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  1. 54 minutes ago

    A 10-hour marathon of right-wing speakers was on the agenda at last weekend's "Mother of All Rallies" in DC. Despite an afternoon downpour, the rally lived up to its name — not in crowd size, which at best peaked at a few hundred — but in sheer duration.

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  2. 3 hours ago

    If someone in Miami-Dade is stopped with less than 20 grams of marijuana, police can issue a civil citation instead of an arrest, helping avoid a criminal record. New data shows police are choosing civil citations — for white people.

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  4. 5 hours ago

    Today’s Headlines: Trump and the spread of the race-war fantasy; Gemma may be forced out of post; What happened to the 99 immigrant kids taken from parents; and more.

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  5. 15 hours ago

    While symbols to the confederacy are slowly being removed from public spaces, in places like Abbeville, SC, they are going up on private land.

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  6. 17 hours ago

    A viral video from June showed a white woman assaulting a black teenager at a Summerville, SC pool. They country immediately weighed in. But in Summerville, “the subject is very uncomfortable to [white people]. They didn’t want to discuss it."

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  7. 19 hours ago

    In 2017, 9 incarcerated people were killed in Alabama prisons. More 200 were seriously injured. We sued the Alabama Department of Corrections over their lack of health care. Out of that lawsuit has come a court order to hire more correctional officers.

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  8. 21 hours ago

    This is yet another example of President Trump opening the White House doors to extremism. Once relegated to the fringes, the radical right now has a toehold in the White House.

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  9. 21 hours ago

    In March 2017 Gabriel met with White House staffer Paul Teller to hand-deliver a petition in support of Trump’s Muslim ban.

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  10. 21 hours ago

    This isn’t the first time Gabriel has bragged about her connections to the White House. In 2016, her group touted having a “direct line” to the administration through Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

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  11. 21 hours ago

    Brigitte Gabriel said this at the annual ACT for America conference held last week in DC. ACT for America is a hate group that pushes wild anti-Muslim conspiracy theories, denigrates American Muslims and deliberately conflates mainstream and radical Islam.

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  12. 21 hours ago

    “I actually want you to know we have a standing meeting at the White House once a week. We have a president that likes us, President Trump.” This is what the founder of a hate group said last week.

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  13. 23 hours ago

    Ron DeSantis has spoken at least four times to the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a hate group that has launched a network of projects giving anti-Muslim voices and radical ideologies a platform to project hate and misinformation.

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  14. Sep 10

    15 years old + taken from home in the middle of the night. Young women shipped to a boarding school for "troubled teens" were repeatedly punished for being gay. One was told "flesh would burn off my skin repeatedly for eternity in hell because I was gay."

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    Sep 10

    On September 9, 1963, Sonnie Wellington Hereford IV ’79, was the first African American to integrate Alabama’s public schools. He spoke with the about his experience and his father's legacy:

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    After hearing Dr. King speak, Dr. Sonnie Hereford III said to himself, "I have a son that’s about to start first grade, and if I’m going to be pushing for school integration, why not my own son?" In 1963, his son integrated Alabama's public schools.
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  16. Sep 10

    "If I'm doing everything I'm supposed to do, then how long am I supposed to wait?" Yesterday on , explained felony disenfranchisement in Florida, where in Nov. voters have a chance to return the right to vote to 1.5M people.

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  17. Sep 10

    Today's Headlines: Extremism surge on Web linked to Trump’s election; Gaffney calls candidates ‘Sharia Supremacists’; Carlson attacks diversity in U.S.; and more.

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  18. Sep 10

    In 2016, 61.4% of voting age citizens reported voting. According to a report from , that means 86.5 million potential voters were missing from the election. Read the full report:

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  19. Sep 9

    The U.S. holds 4% of the world’s population, yet is home to 21% of the world’s incarcerated people. “You’d think with so much experience, we’d be good at imprisonment, yet we have one of the worst rehabilitation records worldwide."

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  20. Sep 9

    In 1975, Bruce Jackson brought his Widelux camera to a 16,000-acre Arkansas prison farm — a place called a "dark and evil world" by a judge. These are his photos.

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