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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today marks the sixth anniversary of the Charleston Church massacre. The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “Today is the sixth anniversary of the Charleston Church massacre and we...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Thursday, June 17, POV will host a roundtable Facebook live event featuring activist Bree Newsome, documentary director CJ Hunt, and SPLC Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks discussing the future of the Confederate...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Julia Solórzano, a staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement responding to Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA)...