Three and a half years before Rosa Parks sat down, Pfc. Sarah Keys refused to get up.
Three and a half years before Rosa Parks sat down, Pfc. Sarah Keys refused to get up.
SPLC President Richard Cohen testified today before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security about the need to focus on domestic terrorism from the radical right.
President Trump has made his anti-Muslim sentiments no secret in the past through harmful executive orders like the Muslim ban.
A federal court hearing will begin today on the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) plan to address its failure to provide adequate staffing for the mental health care needs of prisoners.
A minor who was raped and beaten unconscious by other prisoners at Sumter Correctional Institution in Bushnell, Florida will receive $60,000 as part of a legal settlement with a guard who failed to intervene in the assault.
The bad news about the criminal justice system can seem overwhelming: vast racial disparities; an incarceration rate unprecedented in world history and more than quadrupling over the past four decades; a school-to-prison pipeline that short-circuits our children’s futures.
A federal court ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the SPLC.
North Carolina farmworkers and a coalition of civil rights groups – including the SPLC – filed a federal lawsuit today challenging a state law that guts the ability of farmworkers to organize and make collective bargaining agreements with employers.
The U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE’s) proposed discretionary spending priorities abandon the agency’s longstanding commitment to a high-quality education for all students, and undermine public schools across the country, the SPLC said in comments submitted yesterday to the DOE.
As we feared, the FBI’s hate crime report for 2016 shows a second straight year of increases – the first time that’s happened in a decade. It means that in the last two years, the number of reported hate crimes has risen by nearly 12 percent.
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