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SPLC Pledges $100 Million in Voter Engagement Programs in the Deep South through 2032

December 06, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced a $100 million reinvestment from its endowment to its Vote Your Voice program over the next decade – increasing its commitment by more than three-fold from...

SPLC Mississippi Office Honors Children Impacted by COVID-19 in Jackson’s Capital City Lights Program

December 03, 2021

JACKSON, Miss. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will showcase a tree of remembrance at the annual Festival of Lights in downtown Jackson. The tree will honor the nine Mississippi children who have died from the COVID-19...

SPLC Denounces Reimplementation of “Remain in Mexico” Policy

December 03, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the Biden administration’s planned...

SPLC Applauds Montgomery’s Long Overdue Fred D. Gray Avenue Tribute

December 02, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Attorney General fined the city of Montgomery $25,000 after a Confederate named street was renamed to commemorate civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray. The state attorney general’s office has stated a...

SOUNDS LIKE HATE PODCAST TURNS FOCUS TO MIGRANT DEATHS & EXTREMIST ACTIVITY AT THE U.S. SOUTHERN BORDER

November 30, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center launched “The Unwelcome,” the fifth episode from season three of its latest Sounds Like Hate podcast series. The episode looks at migrant mistreatment and deaths;...

Conviction of men who shot Ahmaud Arbery a necessary step, but issues in our justice system must still be addressed

November 24, 2021

ATLANTA -- Today a jury convicted Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The trio, all of whom are white, jumped into a truck and chased Arbery, a Black man who was jogging...

SPLC APPLAUDS LANDMARK RULING HOLDING WHITE SUPREMACISTS LIABLE IN THE CHARLOTTESVILLE “UNITE THE RIGHT” CIVIL TRIAL

November 24, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement applauding today’s jury ruling that the “Unite the Right” organizers of the far-right rally in...

Southern Poverty Law Center Denounces Lack of Justice in Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict

November 19, 2021

MONTGOMERY, AL – Today, a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for the murders of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and the attempted murder of Gaige Grosskreutz. Rittenhouse was one of many armed civilians who came out to the...

SPLC Celebrates 50 Years As a Catalyst for Racial Justice in the South

November 18, 2021

Montgomery, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is celebrating 50 years of advocacy with a virtual, livestreamed event, “SPLC 50th Anniversary Celebration,” to be held Thursday, Nov. 18 at 7:00 p.m. CT/8:00 p.m. ET. “The...

SPLC Emphasizes Mobile’s Legal Obligations Under Voting Rights Act in Letter to Mayor, City Council

November 17, 2021

MOBILE, Ala. - Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) urged in a letter the Mayor and City Council of Mobile, Alabama, to consider their “affirmative obligation” under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) in...

SOUNDS LIKE HATE 3: When Anti-LGBTQ Parents and Families Foster Hate, LGBTQ Youth Suffer

November 16, 2021

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center launched part two of “Fostering Hate,” the fourth episode of the new season of the Sounds Like Hate podcast, which reports on the overt discrimination and hate allowed to...

Alabamians, Civil Rights Groups Launch Legal Challenges Over Alabama Racial Gerrymandering

November 15, 2021

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a pair of lawsuits in federal court challenging Alabama’s newly drawn political maps for state legislative and congressional districts...

SPLC Files Notice of Appeal for U.S. District Court Decision Denying Emergency COVID-19 Protections to Cobb County Students

November 10, 2021

COBB COUNTY, Ga. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Law Office of Allison B. Vrolijk and Goodmark Law Firm filed a notice of appeal of the Court’s decision last month denying Cobb County students with disabilities...

Jacksonville City Council Officially Takes Their Place on the Wrong Side of History

November 10, 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville City Council voted to ignore their community’s plea to remove the Confederate monument in Springfield Park. The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “We are...

Sounds Like Hate 3: “Fostering Hate” Threatens Forever Families for LGBTQ Children and Parents

November 09, 2021

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center launched “Fostering Hate,” the third episode from season three of its latest Sounds Like Hate podcast series . The stories you will hear corroborate that discrimination...

SPLC to Full Jacksonville City Council: It’s Not Too Late to Remove Symbol of Hate from Springfield Park

November 05, 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Last week, three Jacksonville City Council committees voted to leave the Women of the Southland monument standing in Springfield Park. This decision followed Mayor Lenny Curry’s promise to remove all of...

Asylum Seekers Seek Emergency Relief As Battle Over “Remain in Mexico” Policy Continues

November 04, 2021

Los Angeles, CA – Six asylum seekers subjected to the “Remain in Mexico” policy are seeking an emergency order from a federal court allowing them to return to the United States to pursue their claims for asylum and related relief...

SOUNDS LIKE HATE’S SEASON 3 FEATURES NEW HOST, YVONNE LATTY

November 02, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) new season of its Sounds Like Hate podcast series features a new host: author, journalist and educator Yvonne Latty. Next week, the latest episode, which tackles the...

SPLC Submits Plan to Ensure Ongoing Protections for Students with Disabilities in New Orleans

October 29, 2021

NEW ORLEANS – More than six years after a federal judge entered a consent judgment to remedy systemic discrimination of students with disabilities in New Orleans’s decentralized public school system, the Southern Poverty Law...

SPLC RESPONDS TO DHS MEMO ON ‘PROTECTED LOCATIONS’

October 28, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Sarah Rich, senior supervising attorney with the Immigrant Justice Project, in response to the new Department of Homeland Security memo...

Postcolonial Karma Exhibit Waves White Flag on Georgia’s Confederate Legacy

October 28, 2021

ATLANTA – Through the “ Postcolonial Karma ” exhibit, artist Lisa Tuttle speaks to today’s issues of gender, race and class while stirring conversation about the true meaning behind the idols and images that define the...

SPLC CEO Margaret Huang Reflects on the Anniversary of the Tree of Life Synagogue Attack

October 27, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement reflecting on the third anniversary of the white nationalist attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue. “Today...

Judge rules Florida lawsuit can have all children in solitary as plaintiffs

October 27, 2021

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The federal judge presiding over the case of G.H. v. Tamayo, a statewide challenge to the Department of Juvenile Justice’s use of solitary confinement, has ruled that the case can proceed as a class action...

Sounds Like Hate Kicks Off Season 3, Exposing How Voter Restrictions in Georgia and across the Country Target Voter with Disabilities

October 26, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched the first episode in the third season of its Sounds Like Hate podcast series today. Through personal stories of individual voters and activists, this premiere...

SPLC: NATIONAL GUARD ACTIONS AT THE BORDER VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS

October 22, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director for the Immigrant Justice Project, in response to reports that Texas National Guard troops...

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