June 20, 2022
ATLANTA – Efrén C. Olivares , Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project , released the following statement to join the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to observe...
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June 17, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Civil rights and immigrants’ rights organizations across the state denounced Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing of SB 1808 into law today. The groups say the law is discriminatory and seeks to unjustly and unlawfully...
June 14, 2022
Montgomery, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released two new episodes of the acclaimed podcast, Sounds Like Hate . Season four will examine the story of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va...
June 09, 2022
MIAMI – The Southern Poverty Law Center has called for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to open an investigation into the legality of the State of Florida’s planned use of $12 million in...
June 09, 2022
ATLANTA – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) , ACLU of Georgia , Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyer’s Committee) and Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP (SRZ...
June 09, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released a new Extremist File on Jack Posobiec , a political operative and propagandist well known for creating and amplifying viral disinformation campaigns. Often...
June 08, 2022
MONTGOMERY – TODAY the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) , and Brown Goldstein & Levy , on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind of Alabama (NFB-AL) and individual...
June 03, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An asylum screening rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) denies asylum seekers their due process rights by limiting their ability to properly...
June 01, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), today, released the results of a national poll which further demonstrates the extensive mainstreaming of extremist beliefs and narratives across the country. The poll of...
May 26, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed an amicus brief in Falls v. DeSantis , a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Florida’s HB 7 (commonly called the “Stop W.O.K.E. Act”), signed...
May 26, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden signed an Executive Order to reform federal policing on the anniversary of the killing of Mr. George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement. The executive order directs all federal agencies to...
May 25, 2022
ATLANTA – TODAY Voting rights groups filed a preliminary injunction motion to challenge certain barriers to voting created by Georgia’s anti-voter law, S.B. 202 . If granted, the preliminary injunction would lift restrictions on...
May 23, 2022
ATLANTA – Efrén C. Olivares , Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement in response to a district court in Louisiana’s ruling blocking the Center...
May 20, 2022
NEW YORK – Today, the Fort Hamilton Army Base renamed a street honoring a Confederate leader. In 2020, the National Defense Authorization Act established a Naming Commission within the Department of Defense, which provides “...
May 18, 2022
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – The Georgia Board of Education has reversed a decision by the Cobb County Board of Education to expel a Black Campbell High School student in violation of his due process rights. The student, who is referred to...
May 16, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement responding to this weekend’s attack at a grocery store where 10 people were killed by an 18-year-old white...
May 12, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C . – A new report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch provides an inside look at Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes , as told by his three adult children. In an exclusive interview...
May 04, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new investigative report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch reveals that an anonymous donor has donated more than $2 million U.S. dollars in Bitcoin to Alex Jones over the...
May 03, 2022
Jacksonville, Fla. — Today the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida , Harvard Election Law Clinic , and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Jacksonville NAACP Branch , the Northside...
April 28, 2022
ATLANTA, Ga. – The ACLU of Georgia ( ACLU-GA ), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Intercultural Development Research Association ( IDRA ) are joining to support educators, students and parents in Georgia as they...
April 27, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, 10 civil and immigrants’ rights organizations filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) calling for an investigation of the Houston...
April 26, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Caren Short, senior supervising attorney for Voting Rights with the Southern Poverty Law Center and Michelle Kanter Cohen, policy director and senior counsel with Fair Elections Center, released the following...
April 25, 2022
Greenville, Miss.—April 25, 2022 —Mississippi civic leaders today challenged state Supreme Court district lines that have gone unchanged for more than 35 years because those lines dilute the voting strength of Black residents in...
April 25, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – While several southern states have respectfully moved away from observing Confederate Memorial Day, Alabama and Mississippi will continue the tradition today. On Tuesday, April 26, Florida will also celebrate...
April 22, 2022
JACKSON, Miss . -- This week the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced the launch of its new Advocacy Institute , a training ground for emerging activists and advocates across the state who are interested in advancing...
