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Civil Rights Groups Highlight New Cure Process for Mississippi Absentee Voters’ Ballots, Additional Curbside Voting Availability

October 20, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. – Today in Mississippi, plaintiffs and civil rights groups that challenged Mississippi’s burdensome absentee ballot requirements celebrated new protections put in place for absentee voters as the state conducts an...

New SPLC Analysis: Younger Voters Continue to Lag in Returning Mail Ballots and Voting Early In-person

October 20, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A new analysis released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that as voters across the country begin to cast their ballots for the 2020 General Election, younger voters continue to lag in...

Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Hear Remain in Mexico Challenge

October 19, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a Ninth Circuit decision that held illegal a Trump administration policy that sends asylum seekers to wait in Mexico in dangerous conditions as their claims for...

SPLC Analysis: Young Voters Are Not Returning Absentee Ballots as Fast as Other Groups

October 16, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – An analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that as voters across the country begin to cast their ballots for the 2020 General Election, voters under 30 across 42 states have requested ballots...

EXCLUSIVE: SPLC Podcast Reveals Secret Recordings from Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Group, The Base

October 15, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — The latest episode of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)’s podcast Sounds Like Hate published today with exclusive and never-before-heard recordings from a neo-Nazi white supremacist group, The Base ...

SPLC Statement on Final Day of U.S. Census Counting

October 15, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about the final 24 hours of counting for the 2020 census is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Until 6:00AM Eastern Daylight Time on October 16,...

SPLC’s Whose Heritage? Reports Over 100 Confederate Symbols Removed Since George Floyd’s Murder

October 14, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced that over 100 Confederate symbols have been removed since May 26, 2020 — the start of the protests following the police killing of George Floyd. The Whose...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to SCOTUS Decision to Halt Census Count

October 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Supreme Court's decision to halt the census count while litigation continues in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director...

SPLC Responds to 11th Circuit Decision in Alabama COVID-19 Voting Case

October 13, 2020

ATLANTA — The following statement regarding today's United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit split decision in People First of Alabama v. John Merrill is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the Southern...

SPLC Statement Commemorating Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 12, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the statement below in commemoration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day: “On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and every day, we honor the first peoples to...

SPLC, health experts file amicus brief supporting eviction moratorium during COVID-19

October 09, 2020

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today joined more than 20 medical associations and experts in filing an amicus brief in Brown vs. Azar, supporting the Center for Disease Control’s eviction moratorium during the COVID-19...

Federal Judge Rejects ICE’s ‘Weak’ Implementation of Court-Ordered Custody Determinations of High Risk Individuals and Other Safety Measures

October 08, 2020

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Last night in the U.S. District Court for the Central Division of California, U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal granted civil rights organizations' motion to enforce a preliminary injunction in their class-...

SPLC to Collapse Black Separatist Groups Listings in Hate Map; Reassigns Groups According to Ideology

October 08, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project announced today that, in pursuit of a more accurate hate map , we will be collapsing the Black Separatist listings and be reclassifying them under...

SPLC: Allow Removal of Lafayette’s Confederate Monument Honoring Gen. Alfred Mouton to Proceed

October 08, 2020

NEW ORLEANS – On Monday, October 12, during a court hearing in Lafayette, Louisiana, Move the Mindset (MTM) and community members will call on the 15th Judicial District Court to nullify a permanent injunction which prevents the...

ICE is Using Torture Against Cameroonian Immigrants to Coerce Deportation, According to New Complaint Filed by Immigrant Rights Groups

October 08, 2020

WASHINGTON – Cameroon American Council, Freedom for Immigrants, Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Detention Watch Network (DWN), Natchez Network, Haitian Bridge Alliance, and...

National Report Reveals Harmful Academic Credit Transfer Policies and Practices for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

October 08, 2020

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (October 8, 2020): Today, Juvenile Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Education Law Center-PA released the report Credit Overdue: How States Can Mitigate Academic Credit Transfer Problems for Youth in...

SPLC Announces Georgia-based Actions to Fund Ballot Drop Boxes in Fulton Co. and Mail 1 Million Absentee Ballot Requests to Meet Voter Needs in Historic Election

October 07, 2020

ATLANTA – Today, in response to the anticipated overwhelming number of absentee ballots that will be cast during the 2020 General Election in November and service cuts to the United States Postal Service (USPS), the Southern...

SPLC Report Uncovers Far-Right Pennsylvania Political Blog Has Ties to Russian Propagandist

October 07, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — Lancaster Patriot, a Pennsylvania politics blog that trafficked in sensational rhetoric about antiracist protesters and COVID-19 conspiracy theories in the runup to the 2020 election, had ties to pro-kremlin...

SPLC Hosts Virtual Convening on Exposing Anti-Blackness Among the Far Right Movement

October 07, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is hosting a free, three-part virtual convening about the challenges facing Black communities amid a rising and increasingly violent white nationalist movement. The series...

SPLC Investigation Finds American White Nationalist Group Tied to Kremlin Advocate with “Shady” Funding

October 06, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — An investigation published by Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch today found that the influential U.S. white nationalist group The Right Stuff (TRS) has significant links to Charles Bausman, a notorious...

Teaching Tolerance Releases “The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors,” a New Classroom Film About Indigenous Enslavement for Grades 6-12

October 06, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Teaching Tolerance pro-ject has released a new classroom film, “The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors,” to help in-troduce students in grades 6-12 to the history of...

SPLC Awards Over $4.5M in Second Round of Grants in Vote Your Voice Initiative

October 05, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced a second round Vote Your Voice grants to 28 additional voter outreach organizations across the Deep South as part of its voter mobilization initiative...

SPLC Action: With Momentum of Resolution 1153, Congress Must Honor the Calls from Women Inside ICDC

October 02, 2020

WASHINGTON – Today, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1153, condemning unwanted, unnecessary medical procedures on individuals without their full, informed consent at Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in...

Federal Court Rules Alabama Must Take Steps to Better Protect Voters During COVID-19 Pandemic

September 30, 2020

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal court issued a decision today that will help protect the health and right to vote of medically vulnerable Alabamians. The ruling in People First of Alabama v. Merrill means Alabama voters will not...

SPLC Action Fund Urges Swift Passage of Protecting Our Students in Schools Act

September 30, 2020

NATIONAL – The Protecting Our Students in Schools Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives today by Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-District 4) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-District 1). If passed, the...

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