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Lawsuit dismissed against Tuscaloosa Sheriff due to lack of COVID-19 records

February 08, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit against Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ron Abernathy after his attorneys acknowledged that Abernathy’s office had no records in response to a...

SPLC Lauds Defense Secretary Austin’s Strong and Swift First Steps to End Hate and Extremism in our Military

February 04, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang welcomed Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s early initiative to address the dangerous and disturbing trend of extremism in the U.S...

Award-winning SPLC Education Program Gets New Name, Leadership

February 03, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project, newly named Learning for Justice, is now led by Jalaya Liles Dunn, a 20-year veteran education advocate who aims to expand the project into homes...

Federal Court Allows Workers’ Claims to Proceed in Lawsuit Challenging Major ICE Workplace Raid

February 02, 2021

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – On Sunday, January 31, a federal judge largely allowed a lawsuit challenging an April 2018 immigration raid to proceed, denying in part the federal government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The raid took...

The Year in Hate and Extremism 2020: Organized hate groups became more difficult to track amid COVID and migration to online networks

February 01, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In the final year of a Trump presidency that propelled racist conspiracy theories and white nationalist ideology into the political mainstream, far-right extremists continued to migrate to online networks as...

SPLC: MPS Students and Educators Deserve a Plan

January 27, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In the wake of the tragic deaths of four educators related to complications from COVID-19, Montgomery Public Schools Superintendent Ann Roy Moore announced Monday that all students will resume virtual learning...

SPLC: Osceola County Public Schools Must Protect Students from Police Brutality

January 27, 2021

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Yesterday, a video surfaced on social media that showed an Osceola County Sheriff’s deputy slamming a Black female student at Liberty High School to a sidewalk headfirst, causing her body to go limp. Even as she...

SPLC Statement Observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 26, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The following statement is from Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center . “On January 27, we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to remember the victims of the...

Unlawfully Imprisoned for Months, Eight Cubans Take ICE to Federal Court

January 25, 2021

LUMPKIN, Ga. – On Friday, January 22, eight Cubans filed a group habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, seeking their immediate release from Stewart Detention Center (SDC), an Immigration...

Federal Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Family Torn Apart by Trump Administration’s Separation Policy

January 22, 2021

TUCSON – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a father and son who were forcibly separated by government officials for two months...

SPLC Responds to Administration’s Discontinuation of Remain in Mexico Policy

January 21, 2021

WASHINGTON – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) responded to the Biden administration’s announcement of the discontinuation of the Remain in Mexico policy going forward. The following statement is from Melissa Crow, Senior...

Jalaya Liles Dunn and Susan Corke Join SPLC to Lead Education and Anti-Hate Work

January 19, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Human rights leaders Susan Corke and Jalaya Liles Dunn join the Southern Poverty Law Center today to lead two internationally renowned projects aimed at combating hate and extremism in communities across the...

Court Blocks Trump Administration Attempt to Thwart Court Order Protecting Asylum Seekers

January 18, 2021

Today, a federal court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the Trump administration’s latest attempt to prevent asylum seekers from accessing the U.S. asylum process. The order blocks a rule, issued in December...

SPLC’s Civil Rights Memorial Center Hosts Live Virtual MLK Event

January 15, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC), a Montgomery-based interpretive center for the modern civil rights movement, hosted a live virtual event today commemorating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The...

SPLC’s Lecia Brooks Responds to Arrest of Insurrectionist who Brought a Confederate Flag into the Capitol

January 15, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC — Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the arrest of the man who carried the Confederate flag into the Capitol during the insurrection on January 6. “Just as defeated...

Charlotte Man Faces Deportation by Obscure, Racist Immigration Law

January 14, 2021

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Deportation is imminent for 44-year-old Kelvin Silva, a long-time resident and valued community member of Charlotte. Attorneys say Silva, who is currently in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...

‘Adopted with the intent to discriminate’: Florida Advocates and Leading Expert Witness Conclude Testimony Challenging Florida’s Racist, Anti-immigrant Law

January 14, 2021

MIAMI – Acclaimed U.S. historian Allan J. Lichtman appeared in trial as an expert witness in the legal challenge to Florida’s anti-sanctuary law, or S.B. 168, testifying that the legislation was designed in close collaboration...

SPLC: Trump’s Reckless Border Trip Must Be Cancelled

January 11, 2021

ALAMO, Texas – In response to the president’s planned visit to the border on Tuesday, Efrén Olivares, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement. “For...

Hearing begins Monday to challenge retaliation against plaintiffs in Florida solitary confinement lawsuit

January 10, 2021

Tallahassee, Fla. — A five-day evidentiary hearing begins Monday in Harvard v. Inch . on Plaintiffs’ motion for a protective order asking the court to stop retaliation, chilling or harassing conduct against people who are...

Immigrant Rights Advocates Ask Court to Block Trump Administration Attempt to Thwart Court Order

January 07, 2021

SAN DIEGO — Immigrant rights advocates moved for a temporary restraining order to block the Trump administration’s latest attempt to circumvent an earlier court order prohibiting the government from applying an asylum ban to...

SPLC: President Trump’s Quest to Steal the Election Endangers Lives at the Capitol

January 06, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At President Trump’s prodding, thousands of extremists have stormed the Capitol complex in Washington D.C. to prevent lawmakers from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Lecia...

Southern Poverty Law Center denounces lack of justice in Jacob Blake case

January 06, 2021

KENOSHA, Wis. –Earlier today, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced that the police officers responsible for shooting Jacob Blake in the back will not face criminal charges. Two officers fired seven shots at...

Georgians sue to stop extreme delays in state unemployment process

January 06, 2021

ATLANTA – Multiple Georgia residents have filed a lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) and its commissioner, Mark Butler, to compel the department to perform its duties under Georgia law to timely process...

SPLC: Contested Congressional Certification of Presidential Election Today “Deeply Distressing Statement against Democracy and Elections”

January 06, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement about the certification today in the U.S. Congress of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College is by Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law...

Ahead of January Trial, Federal Judge Strikes Down Provision of Florida’s Anti-Sanctuary Law

December 21, 2020

MIAMI – United States District Judge Beth Bloom has issued an order blocking Florida law enforcement agencies from transporting persons in their custody outside of their jurisdiction for the purpose of handing them over to...

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