MONTGOMERY, Ala —Today civil rights and homelessness advocacy organizations sent a letter to Mayor Strange and Montgomery’s City Council opposing the City’s panhandling law and an amendment that would criminalize poverty being...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - In a ruling last week, the case Harvard v. Inch , challenging Florida’s use of solitary confinement will continue to proceed toward trial. The state of Florida asked the Northern District of Florida to dismiss...

"For Trump to characterize a legal impeachment inquiry as a lynching shows a complete disrespect for the thousands of Black people lynched — murdered — throughout our nation's history in acts of racism and hatred. Trump needs a...

MONTGOMERY, Ala—A proposed “disparate impact” rule by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would weaken the standard to test if a housing policy unfairly discriminates on the basis of race, color, religion,...

Tallahassee, FL. - Florida For A Fair Wage announced today that the SPLC Action Fund is joining the campaign to raise Florida’s minimum wage. The non-profit has donated $250,000 to support the constitutional amendment and will...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – For decades, the disparate impact provision of the Fair Housing Act has helped protect victims of domestic violence, immigrants, families with children, individuals with disabilities, communities of color and...

Southern Poverty Law Center Interim President and CEO Karen Baynes-Dunning issued the follow the statement: “The Trump administration is continuing its racist agenda by targeting immigrants through a cruel policy primarily aimed...

JACKSON, Miss. - Today, We Vote! Mississippi, a voter engagement project led by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is announcing 785 completed voter registration forms collected to date in Hinds County and historically black...

September 26, 2019, San Diego –Today, immigrant rights attorneys moved to block the Trump administration’s Asylum Ban from affecting tens of thousands of migrants who have already attempted to access the U.S. asylum process...

ORLANDO, Fla. – An Orlando law enforcement officer last week arrested two young students — ages 6 and 8 — in separate incidents involving misbehavior at the Lucious & Emma Nixon Academy Charter School, where the students...

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...