A city court judge in Bogalusa, Louisiana, is operating a modern-day debtors’ prison by illegally jailing indigent people unable to pay fines or court costs – including a man fined for stealing $5 worth of food to feed his family, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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.
SPLC President Richard Cohen told members of a congressional panel today that the nearly two-year delay in bringing criminal charges against armed militiamen who confronted federal officials in Nevada played a role in this year’s standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.
From the earliest hours of the tragedy in Orlando, one fact was not in dispute: The worst mass shooting in U.S. history was committed by a killer who targeted LGBT people for murder.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding Donald Trump’s comments in response to the Orlando shooting is by SPLC President Richard Cohen.
Our hearts go out to the injured and to the families of those who died in the senseless act of domestic terrorism in Orlando.
The SPLC has filed a federal safety complaint on behalf of a former worker at an Alabama poultry plant owned by Wayne Farms – the same company fined more than $100,000 by the federal government after an SPLC complaint uncovered safety violations at a different Alabama plant.
A federal judge ruled this week that Alabama officials must abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage despite contrary statements by the Alabama Supreme Court– a victory for the SPLC and other civil rights groups that fought to secure marriage equality in the state.
The Southern Poverty Law Center offered testimony to a Senate subcommittee on Capitol Hill today about the abuses and failures within the nation’s H-2B guest worker program.
The Southern Poverty Law Center urged school officials in Dothan, Alabama, this week to change its discipline policies after an SPLC investigation revealed that African-American students overwhelmingly receive harsh discipline that needlessly pushes them out of school for minor misconduct.
