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A Montgomery nonprofit is working to highlight the epidemic of hate-fueled crimes, their survivors and the advocacy to prevent the crimes. The Southern Poverty Law Center is holding its Hate Crimes Awareness Month multi-media campaign throughout October.

Interfaith Alliance and the Southern Poverty Law Center are collaborating this week to host the Interfaith Summit on Countering Hate in Montgomery. The summit is meant to bring together a diverse group of over 50 influential faith and community leaders from the Deep South and across the country.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, is urging Alabama authorities to accept a request from a Muslim inmate that no autopsy be performed on his body after execution, in accordance with his religious beliefs.

The U.S. Department of Transportation will investigate whether Alabama violated civil rights law with closures and service reductions at rural driver's…