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A year ago today, a young white supremacist gunned down nine black parishioners at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, marking the violent start to a lethal year of extremist violence in the United States.
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The long-running saga of the moribund neo-Nazi National Alliance (NA) and the long-dead Canadian chemist who might have saved it has come to an end.
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Chief Justice Roy Moore has disgraced his office for far too long. He’s such a religious zealot, such an egomaniac that he thinks he doesn’t have to follow federal court rulings he disagrees with. For the good of the state, he should be kicked out of office.
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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore could once again be removed from the bench as the result of judicial ethics complaints filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½) after he instructed state court judges to defy a federal court order and enforce the state’s unconstitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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At least 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy can be found in public spaces across the country, mostly in the Deep South, according to a report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most were put in place during the early decades of Jim Crow or in reaction to the civil rights movement.
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A survey of approximately 2,000 teachers by the Southern Poverty Law Center indicates that the presidential campaign is having a profoundly negative impact on schoolchildren across the country, according to a report released today.
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The Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center) today awarded its highest honor to ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ founder Morris Dees. The Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Peace Prize is bestowed upon individuals who emulate and embody Dr. King's spirit.
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Following the Watergate scandal in the mid-1970s, the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities – popularly known as the – issued reports revealing that federal agencies had spied on U.S. citizens for years.
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I’m honored this weekend to be a participant in the 2016 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage led by the legendary John Lewis and sponsored by the . Typically, we host the pilgrimage at the Civil Rights Memorial in front of our office during its journey through Alabama. But, this year, the pilgrimage is going to South Carolina instead of Alabama.
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ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ President Richard Cohen released the following statement following the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Merrick Garland.Â
