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April 30, 2020
Montgomery, Alabama -- With hundreds of deaths and thousands of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Alabama, the Children and Youth Advocacy Network (CYAN) has petitioned the Alabama Supreme Court to take immediate statewide action to...
January 15, 2019
The following statement is by Rhonda Brownstein, Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center: 鈥淪triking a blow to the defenders of the 鈥淟ost Cause,鈥� a judge has struck down an Alabama law that prevented the removal of...
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We have lost far too many children and educators to massacres in our nation鈥檚 schools. In the aftermath of the latest tragedy in Parkland, Florida, lawmakers across the country have recognized that it is time to act on school safety.
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The decision to allow enforcement of Trump鈥檚 Muslim ban will continue to break up families and allow religious discrimination against persons fleeing religious and political persecution.聽
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The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 is not about preserving our state鈥檚 history, but about protecting Confederate monuments that celebrate white supremacy and a time in which an entire race was enslaved and oppressed.聽
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Betsy DeVos is simply not qualified to be the next education secretary.
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The following statement is from Rhonda Brownstein, legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, in response to President-elect Donald Trump鈥檚 nomination of Andrew Puzder as Secretary of Labor.
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Earlier this month, the federal government offered guidance to school districts that use police officers to keep order in their public schools. To say guidance is needed is a vast understatement.
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President Obama and Congress recently took an important step toward closing the achievement gap in our nation鈥檚 schools and stemming the tide of students needlessly pushed out of class and into the school-to-prison pipeline.
