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District Terminates Teacher Who Hung Black Lives Matter Flag

August 04, 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Students in Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) are returning to school next week, but Amy Donofrio, a 13-year, nationally recognized educator who was banned from her classroom at Robert E. Lee High School in...

SPLC Statement on Governor DeSantis’ Executive Order Blocking School Mask Mandates

August 02, 2021

FLORIDA – With millions of children across Florida set to return to school this month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Friday barring school districts from implementing face mask requirements for their...

SPLC to Gwinnett County’s New School Superintendent: Prioritize School Discipline Reform

July 30, 2021

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Today, the Gwinnett County Board of Education voted to name Calvin J. Watts as the new superintendent of Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), Georgia’s largest and most diverse school district. He will...

Support Builds for Plaintiffs in Case to Restore Voting Rights to Mississippians

July 30, 2021

JACKSON, Miss. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP filed an amicus brief yesterday supporting the plaintiffs in Harness v. Watson who are seeking – like plaintiffs in ongoing SPLC-filed...

Groundbreaking Analysis of Hate Crime Laws Finds Limitations and Opportunities in the Face of Rising Hate Violence

July 28, 2021

With a rise in hate violence across the country, a new report from the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) and 16 leading civil rights organizations provides a groundbreaking analysis of state and federal hate crime laws. The...

Immigration Advocates Call to End Contracts and Shut Down Two Louisiana ICE Facilities Over Racial Discrimination & Abuse

July 28, 2021

NEW ORLEANS, La. – Black migrant survivors of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and immigration advocates at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to fire...

Krome ICE Officers Physically Abuse and Refuse Services for Individual with Mental Illness, Allege Immigration Advocates

July 20, 2021

MIAMI – Immigration advocates have filed a complaint charging Krome detention guards dragged and choked a Honduran man amid a psychological emergency, after they had continuously refused him treatment. This is the latest in a...

SPLC Applauds Mouton Statue Removal in Lafayette

July 20, 2021

LAFAYETTE, La. — On Saturday, July 17, a Jim Crow-era statue erected to celebrate Gen. Alfred Mouton was removed from downtown Lafayette. Mouton helped train a local “Vigilante Committee” under the guise of fighting crime but...

Veteran and Disability Advocates Join Voting Rights Groups in Lawsuit Against Florida SB 90

July 16, 2021

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, voters with disabilities joined existing ones as new plaintiffs to a lawsuit previously filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Fair Elections Center challenging Florida Senate Bill 90 (SB...

SPLC: President Biden's Voting Rights Speech Is a Needed Call to Action for Multiracial Coalition of Democracy Defenders

July 13, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Today, President Joe Biden delivered a speech on voting rights in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center. Please go here to see SPLC Action Fund’s letter to all 100 U.S. Senators today urging passage of...

Settlement Mandates Federal Court Oversight of Three Florida ICE Detention Facilities for Remainder of Pandemic

July 12, 2021

MIAMI – Immigrants held in U.S. custody and their attorneys reached a settlement with the federal government over COVID-19 protocols at three South Florida Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers. The...

ANALYSIS: Twitter’s Longstanding Relationship with the Far Right

July 07, 2021

WASHINGTON – Six months after the insurrection, Twitter remains a major tool for far-right extremists, enabling and boosting their efforts. A new analysis released today by Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch documents...

SPLC: Appellate Division Unanimously Upholds Dissolution of Conversion Therapy Provider Who Was Barred From Promoting Fraudulent Practice In 2015

July 06, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey upheld an order enforcing a permanent injunction against New Jersey-based conversion therapy promoters and awarding attorneys’ fees for bringing...

SPLC: SCOTUS Brnovich Ruling Further Undermines VRA, Congressional Action Needed to Restore and Strengthen VRA

July 01, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic National Committee. The SPLC filed a friend-of-the-court...

New Web Resources Can Help Prevent Youth Radicalization

June 29, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — New tools to help parents and educators protect vulnerable young people from online radicalization were released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and American University’s Polarization and...

New Fellowship to Provide Crucial Civil Rights Training for Early-Career Lawyers

June 29, 2021

ATLANTA, Ga. – The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced a joint fellowship program to help early-career attorneys develop the skills and experience they need to advance...

SPLC Action Fund Response to Supreme Court Declining Trans Bathroom Appeal

June 28, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, for the second time, the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit meant to bar transgender students from bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Today's decision rejected an appeal by a Virginia school...

Anti-Confederate Billboard Presses for Removal of Confederate Monument from Georgia Capitol Lawn

June 28, 2021

ATLANTA, Ga. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a billboard in support of advocacy efforts in Georgia to remove Confederate symbols from public spaces. The billboard is located at the Langford/I-85/75 split heading...

More than 25 organizations file amicus brief to release Wisconsin order halting $4 billion in loan forgiveness for BIPOC farmers

June 25, 2021

MADISON, Wis. –– On behalf of the Rural Coalition, the Intertribal Agriculture Council, the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers Land Loss Prevention Project and 23 additional farm, rural, environmental, health and civil...

SPLC Responds to Continued Wind Down of Remain in Mexico Policy Starting Today

June 23, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Melissa Crow, a senior supervising attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), released the following statement responding to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) announcement concerning...

Advocacy Groups, Parents and Students Sue Palm Beach County School District for Harmful, Illegal Use of the Baker Act

June 22, 2021

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – Today, a group of Palm Beach County parents and students, Disability Rights Florida, and the Florida State Conference of the NAACP sued the School Board of Palm Beach County and its officials and...

Southern Poverty Law Center and Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore sue Georgia Department of Labor over unpaid and unprocessed unemployment claims

June 22, 2021

ATLANTA -- Citing repeated failures to follow Georgia and federal law governing the payment and processing of unemployment insurance benefits claims, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Atlanta-based law firm Bondurant,...

SPLC: Remove Pedestals Glorifying the Confederacy from Public Property

June 21, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released new data amending the number of pedestals listed as “removed” in its Whose Heritage? report, which tracks symbols of the Confederacy across the United...

EXCLUSIVE REPORTING: Large Donors Pumped Over Four Million Dollars into White Nationalist Group’s Coffers in Lead up to 2020 Election

June 17, 2021

WASHINGTON - A new report released today by Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch and the Center for Media and Democracy reveals big money donors pumped $4.3 million into white nationalist group VDARE in the lead up to...

SPLC Offers New Guide on Immigrant Students’ Right to a Public Education

June 17, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center today released Protecting Immigrant Students’ Rights to a Public Education , a guide explaining the legal framework and rights of immigrant children and families to enroll and...

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