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Hate In The Race. A remarkable level of vitriol has characterized the Republican contest for president. Https:/ www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/hate-race. Commentary: DOJ report on Baltimore policing exposes staggering racial bias. Https:/ www.splcenter.org/news/2016/08/10/doj-report-baltimore-policing-exposes-. Attorney has Neo-Nazi Ties. Baltimore City lawyer represents Baltimore PD in suit over wrongful arrest and 19-year imprisonment of black man. August 23, 2016. We use the ...
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Responding to SPLC Demand, Alabama’s Jefferson County Board of Education Lifts Ban on Male Earrings | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Responding to SPLC Demand, Alabama’s Jefferson County Board of Education Lifts Ban on Male Earrings. June 17, 2012. The Southern Poverty Law Center announced today that Alabama’s Jefferson County Board of Education abolished its unlawful policy banning male students from wearing earrings a policy that discriminated on the basis of sex and violated students’ free-speech rights. The vote comes after the SPLC sent a letter. This is about more than an ability to wear an item of jewelry, said Sam Wolfe, attor...
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Rage on the Right | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Rage on the Right. March 02, 2010. The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation. The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation. The signs of growing radicalization are everywhere. Armed ...
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Why We're Suing Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Why We're Suing Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District. July 21, 2011. For some students in Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District, another day at school is more than just another day of classes, tests and extra-curricular activities. It’s another day of relentless harassment from classmates. And the bullies know it. The Southern Poverty Law Center has urged the school district to live up to its responsibility to create a safe learning environment for all of its students and, specifically, to rep...
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Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative. Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative. The Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative provides. Legal representation to immigrants detained in the southeastern United States. The Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI) provides. Draconian immigration enforcement long practiced in the U.S. is being ramped up by the Trump administration, driven not by facts but by the rhetoric of hate and fear. But their rights are frequently denied in an enforcement regime that l...
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Case Docket | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Summaries of our current and historical civil rights cases. Currently, our litigation is focused on five major areas: children’s rights, economic justice, immigrant justice, LGBT rights, and mass incarceration. Here are summaries, in a searchable format, of our current cases in addition to many over the previous four decades. Children's Rights (45). Criminal Justice Reform (25). Hate and Extremism (18). Tanya Gersh v. Andrew Anglin. April 18, 2017. March 24, 2017. February 06, 2017. Southern Poverty Law ...
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Extremist Files | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Extremists in the U.S. come in many different forms white nationalists, anti-gay zealots, black separatists, racist skinheads, neo-Confederates and more. The Extremist Files database contains profiles of various prominent extremists and extremist organizations. It also examines the histories and core beliefs or ideologies of the most common types of extremist movements. In addition, it illustrates connections between individuals, groups and extremist ideologies. Or in list form. See All Extremist Groups.
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Alabama town agrees in settlement to stop operating debtors’ prison | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Alabama town agrees in settlement to stop operating debtors’ prison. March 14, 2017. The SPLC has reached a settlement with Alexander City, Alabama, and its police chief to resolve a federal class action lawsuit over the operation of a modern-day debtors’ prison in which people were jailed for being too poor to pay fines and court fees for traffic tickets and misdemeanors. To stop the abuse in September 2015. The lawsuit described multiple violations of the U.S. Constitution and Alabama law. Under terms ...
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Civil asset forfeiture: Tracking the cash seized by police in a Deep South state where transparency is not required | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Civil asset forfeiture: Tracking the cash seized by police in a Deep South state where transparency is not required. March 29, 2017. Each year, law enforcement agencies seize billions of dollars in cash and other property from potential suspects some of whom are never convicted or even charged with a crime through a process called civil asset forfeiture. In nearly every state, the agencies get to keep some or all of the property. In the closed cases, the courts awarded more than $313,000 in seized cash t...
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Law Enforcement Resources | Southern Poverty Law Center
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Terror from the Right. Law enforcement professionals are more likely to encounter dangerous extremists than virtually any other segment of American society and those confrontations are, tragically, sometimes fatal. Our free law enforcement trainings. Teach officers how to recognize hate groups, symbols and activity; the threat potential of specific groups; and how to respond to hate group activity. The Extremist Files. Helps officials locate extremist groups within their communities. Aryan Prison Gangs a...