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Protecting and strengthening Americans’ right to vote is a popular goal

SPLC Action Fund: U.S. Senate Should Pass John Lewis Bill Despite Republican Opposition

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Photos: YouTube\ACLU WASHINGTON – Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, on a 219-212 ...

Black Dominican Kelvin Silva, shown above with his daughter, who is incarcerated in Georgia and awaiting deportation.

“Cruel, Unfair And Racist”: Black Immigrants Fight Archaic Law Preventing Them From Citizenship

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Photos: SPLC\Kelvin Silva In the following article by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the issue of Black immigrants specifically fighting the Guyer Rule is ...

(SPLC) released a series of reports this week revealing current, consistent, and well-documented racial discrimination in voting

SPLC Report: Current Conditions Of Racial Discrimination In Voting In Alabama, Louisiana, And Mississippi

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Photos: LaTosha Brown.com\Twitter MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a series of reports this week revealing current, consistent, and well-documented ...

John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. If passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the president, the law would res

SPLC: John Lewis Voting Bill Essential For American Democracy

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Photos: Twitter MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, U.S. Rep. Terri A. Sewell of Alabama’s 7th Congressional District re-introduced H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting ...

(SPLC) has filed an amicus brief in the Georgia Court of Appeals in Efficiency Lodge Inc. v. Neason.

SPLC Files Brief Supporting Tenant’s Rights In Georgia Eviction Case

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Photo: Housing Justice League ATLANTA — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed an amicus brief in the Georgia Court of Appeals in ...

SPLC-filed litigation Hopkins v. Hosemann – to dismantle Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for certain felony convictions

Support To Restore Voting Rights For Thousands in Mississippi Growing

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Photos: ACLU\Twitter JACKSON, Miss. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP filed an amicus brief yesterday supporting the ...

The report provides a comprehensive look at both the opportunities and limitations of hate crime laws as a means of preventing a

Report: Hate Crime Laws Have Limitations In Face of Rising Racist Violence

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Photos: YouTube MONTGOMERY, Ala. — With a rise in hate violence across the country, a new report from the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) and ...

Tuesday, President Joe Biden delivered a speech on voting rights in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center.

President Biden’s Voting Rights Speech Is A Call To Rise To The “Urgency Of This Moment”

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Photos: YouTube\Twitter MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Tuesday, President Joe Biden delivered a speech on voting rights in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center. The following statement about ...

Six months after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter continues to be a major tool for far-right extremists

Tweeting Hate Report: Twitter Embracing Extreme Far-Right White Nationalists And Racists

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Photo: Color of Change Six months after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter continues to be a major tool for far-right extremists, facilitating ...

$4 billion in loan forgiveness (to BIPOC farmers) set aside by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to correct decades of i

BIPOC Farmers: Over 25 Groups Join Brief Supporting Loan Forgiveness

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Photo: Twitter MADISON, Wis. –– On behalf of the Rural Coalition, the Intertribal Agriculture Council, the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers Land Loss ...