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, regarding the Trump administration’s proposed...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the SPLC Action Fund, and comes in response to testimony by Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle...

Washington, DC. — SPLC Action President and CEO Margaret Huang released the below statement ahead of today’s U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement: “Our nation’s policing system...

Read SPLC's report "Whose Heritage: Public Symbols of the Confederacy." MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sent letters to the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the...

Montgomery, Alabama -- COVID-19 cases are continuing to rise in Alabama. But despite that fact, state leaders are going forward with a plan to reopen the state. To accomplish a successful recovery Alabamians must have confidence...

Montgomery, Alabama -- Today, members of Congress unveiled a new police reform bill — The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 — that would ban chokeholds like the one that killed George Floyd, end the use of no-knock warrants in drug...

MONTGOMERY — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joins social justice organizations and millions of people from across the country in a National Day of Mourning to grieve the lives of Black people killed by police and...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Monday night, the Confederate Sailors & Soldiers Monument was removed from Linn Park in Birmingham, Ala. The following statement is from Lecia Brooks, spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Margaret Huang, president and chief executive officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, issued the below statement following the recent string of killings of Black people across the country: “The SPLC joins...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement on Twitter's fact check of the president's tweets on vote-by-mail is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “We’re thankful to see Twitter is...