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NEW REPORT: Giffords Law Center and SPLC Action Fund Release New Analysis on How ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Fuel Racist, Lethal Violence

July 28, 2020

WASHINGTON — The murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man out for a jog in Georgia, thrust controversial Stand Your Ground laws back into the headlines. To better inform the debate around these dangerous laws, Giffords Law Center and...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on GOP COVID-19 Relief Package: “Callous and inhumane”

July 28, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the statement below after the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate introduced their second COVID-19 relief package this afternoon. Their $1 trillion...

Southern Poverty Law Center Announces Initial Grants in $30M Vote Your Voice Initiative

July 28, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces the first round of Vote Your Voice grants to 12 voter outreach organizations across the Deep South as part of the $30 million voter mobilization...

SPLC Action Fund Calls on State Rep. Will Dismukes to Take Accountability and Reconcile with Alabama History

July 27, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to State Rep. Will Dismukes’ (R-Prattville, Ala.) public celebration of Nathan Bedford Forrest — a Confederate...

SPLC on Rep. Lewis’ Final Journey Through Alabama

July 24, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang released the statement below ahead of celebration of life ceremonies for Congressman John Lewis that will include a final...

SPLC Action Fund Warns of Far-Right Extremist Threats in Statement Submitted as Part of U.S. House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism Hearings

July 24, 2020

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, in a letter statement submitted to Representative Max Rose (NY-11), Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism, and Representative Mark Walker (NC-6), Ranking Member...

SPLC Action Fund Applauds U.S. House Vote to Remove Confederate Symbols in the 2021 Fiscal Year Appropriations Measures

July 24, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the U.S. House of Representatives voting 224-189 on a package of appropriations bills that include provisions to...

SPLC Responds to DOJ Report Detailing Use of Excessive Force in Alabama Prisons

July 23, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - The U.S. Department of Justice today released a report detailing unconstitutional conditions regarding use of excessive force on men incarcerated in the Alabama Department of Corrections. The following...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Federal Troops Surge in U.S. Cities

July 23, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement in response to President Trump’s announcement that he will deploy hundreds of federal troops to Chicago and Albuquerque...

Teaching Tolerance Releases New Classroom Film and Lessons for Grades 6-12

July 23, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Monday, July 27, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Teaching Tolerance project will release its latest classroom film, “Bibi” – a story told about the intersection of family, identity and belonging...

SPLC Action Fund Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Support for Congress to Pass Additional COVID-19 Relief

July 23, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, SPLC Action Fund released a poll showing that eight out of every 10 voters — across party lines — in Florida, Georgia and Louisiana strongly support Congress providing additional coronavirus relief and...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to House Vote to Remove Confederate Symbols from the U.S. Capitol

July 22, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the U.S. House of Representatives approval of H.R.7573 , 305-113, legislation which directs the Architect of the...

SPLC Action Fund on Passing of NO BAN Act in U.S. House of Representatives

July 22, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below following the passing of the NO BAN Act in the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 233-183. The Act is designed...

DeVos Sued by Public School Parents, NAACP, and School Districts to Block Illegal Rule That Diverts Critical COVID-19 Aid from Public Schools to Private Schools

July 22, 2020

NATIONAL – A rule issued by the U.S. Department of Education this month coerces school districts to use an illegal process to inflate the amount of federal COVID-19 aid they must share with private schools. The rule will...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to U.S. House of Representatives Approval of the National Defense Authorization Act

July 21, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the bipartisan U.S. House of Representatives approval of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), 295-125,...

SPLC Action Fund: Trump’s Census Memo is Unlawful and Harmful

July 21, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below after President Trump issued a memo ordering the U.S. Census Bureau to exclude undocumented immigrants living in the...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to DHS Collecting Personal Information on People Deemed “Threatening” to Confederate Monuments

July 21, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to guidance aligned with President Trump’s executive order , which allows collection of personal information and...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to Neshoba Co. Board of Supervisors Decision to Keep Confederate Monument

July 20, 2020

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – Today, the Neshoba County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to keep the Confederate monument located in front of the courthouse despite pleas from the community to remove it. The following statement is from...

SPLC Action Fund Urges Congress to Pass NO BAN Act

July 20, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, in a letter to all Members of Congress , SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang urged representatives to support the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants...

In Win for Alabama Voters, State Extends Emergency Absentee Voting Through November Elections

July 20, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Friday, July 17, 2020, Alabama’s Secretary of State announced that emergency absentee voting would continue through the November 3, 2020, elections. The announcement is a massive win in the fight for...

SPLC Analysis: Racial disparities apparent as hundreds denied parole in Alabama in June

July 20, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Hundreds of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons were denied parole in June, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) analysis published today. SPLC reviewed 452 parole hearings in June and found...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis

July 18, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose life’s work to combat racial injustice began in the segregated South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and original group of 13 Freedom Riders...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Rev. C.T. Vivian

July 17, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement on the passing of Civil Rights leader Reverend C.T. Vivian earlier this morning: “C.T. Vivian was a...

SPLC Action Fund Calls for Immediate Removal of Mississippi Confederate Monument

July 17, 2020

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – On Monday, July 20, the Black Empowerment Organization (BEO) and community members will call on the Neshoba County Board of Supervisors to eliminate symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces by removing...

Federal Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Traumatized Migrant Families Torn Apart by Trump Administration’s Separation Policy

July 16, 2020

PHOENIX – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman filed an amended federal lawsuit today adding four additional migrant families to the filing who were separated from their...

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