JACKSON, Miss. – Ahead of the pivotal 2019 statewide Mississippi elections in November, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced a non-partisan, grassroots voter engagement project called We Vote! Mississippi, which...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The suicide rate among young, black students has steadily increased in the past few years but schools can help mitigate outcomes by connecting students to critical mental health services, as well as addressing...

Using fake names and fictional avatars, people devoted to hate and extremism exude courage and commitment to their causes online. But that changes when the world learns their real names. In the latest issue of the Southern...

OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal court has reinstated a nationwide injunction blocking a Trump administration asylum ban that denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third country en route to the...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. --Citing scientific, medical and mental health evidence likening solitary confinement to torture and demonstrating its dangers to the development and rehabilitation of children, the Southern Poverty Law Center (...

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, in response to a new Trump administration rule that...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s community corrections pay-to-play model prioritizes making money over rehabilitation or public safety, according to a special investigative report the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As part of an effort to improve classroom lessons about American slavery and the important role it played in shaping the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project has released...

On August 12, 2017, the nation witnessed the horrific scene after a neo-Nazi sped his car into a group of peaceful counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person, Heather Heyer, and injuring dozens of others...

JACKSON, Miss. – On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, the United States District Court Southern District of Mississippi issued a ruling in Hopkins v. Hosemann. The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with the law firm Simpson Thacher...

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich issued the below statement on the impact of President Trump’s racially-driven rhetoric following the shooting Saturday in El Paso, Texas: “By describing...

On Friday, the SPLC joined other civil rights organization with pending litigation challenging the constitutionality of Florida Senate Bill 7066 in filing a motion for preliminary injunction . If granted, the motion would prevent...