February 25, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced the beginning of a new application process in its Vote Your Voice initiative that will make more than $10 million in grants available to Deep South...
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February 23, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released the 2020 year-end update to its Whose Heritage? report data and map, which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. The Whose...
February 23, 2021
MIAMI – The Biden-Harris administration is reportedly planning to reopen the Homestead detention center to detain unaccompanied migrant children. The detention center was last used in August of 2019 before closing, following...
February 23, 2021
WASHINGTON – An anti-immigrant extremist with ties to the white nationalist movement is presently advising Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), according to a new report published in Hatewatch. Julia Hahn, a former Trump aide with a long...
February 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) yesterday issued a memo establishing interim guidance on the scope of interior enforcement activity for the next 90 days. The following statement is from Laura...
February 16, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third country en route to the United States, with very...
February 16, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new analysis – titled “ How an Encrypted Messaging Platform is Changing Extremist Movements .” The report details how extremist groups are migrating to...
February 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration today announced the first phase of its plan to wind down the "Remain in Mexico" policy. On February 19, the United States will begin processing people who have already been enrolled in...
February 10, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Civil Rights Memorial Center is partnering with New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander to produce a community poem for a new exhibit that will be featured at the Center when it reopens later this...
February 10, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki today said the administration would continue to expel migrants at the border, signaling that the administration would continue expulsions under Title 42, pursuant to a CDC...
February 09, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Montgomery County Board of Education voted to approve two settlement agreements with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) during a special meeting on Feb. 5. The agreements resolve two lawsuits filed last...
February 09, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new analysis The Year in Antigovernment Extremism detailing the activities and dangers of the 566 extreme antigovernment groups that were active in 2020...
February 09, 2021
Tallahassee, FL — Following a five-day evidentiary hearing U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin A. Fitzpatrick has ordered the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) to stop retaliation and threats of retaliation against incarcerated...
February 08, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Jenkins v. Miller is a federal case in Vermont brought by a lesbian woman, Janet Jenkins, against her former civil union partner, Lisa Miller, who “renounced” homosexuality and kidnapped their then 7-year-old...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
