MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released an update to its Whose Heritage report which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. The report shows that nearly 1,800...
WASHINGTON — Yesterday, the SPLC Action Fund submitted a statement to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee calling on senators to consider the minimum requirements needed to reform the policing system following the recent murders...
Miami, Fla. – The Migrant Service Providers, a coalition of over 40 organizations across South Florida, released the following statement in response to Governor DeSantis’s inaccurate and racist scapegoating of migrant farmworkers...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about Kentucky's primary elections today is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: "Today, the state of Kentucky follows states like Wisconsin and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center issued the following statement by Meredith Stewart, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, regarding the Trump administration's executive order...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Lecia Brooks issued the following statement after a noose was found in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. “It is extremely troubling, yet...
TULSA, Okla. — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the below statement following President Trump’s rally tonight in Tulsa, Okla., the day after Juneteenth and near the site of the 1921 massacre that left up...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - An incarcerated man at Lake County Correctional Institution near Orlando died on Friday, June 19 a day after sustaining life-threatening injuries from corrections officers. The officers involved have been put...
TULSA, Okla. — Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang released the following statement ahead of President Trump’s rally on Saturday in Tulsa, Okla. — the day after Juneteenth...
WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang released the statement below following the introduction today of a bill in the U.S. Senate to recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday: “The...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Lecia Brooks issued the following statement after portraits of Confederate leaders Robert Hunter, James Orr, Howell Cobb, and Charles Crisp were removed from the U.S. Capitol...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement after Facebook removed Trump campaign ads that used a red upside-down triangle. Trump later claimed that the symbol is used by Antifa, but it is...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was arbitrary and capricious. The following statement can be...
Montgomery, Ala. – A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement a number of measures to protect detained people’s access to counsel...
WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang released the statement below on the introduction of the Justice Act, the Senate GOP police reform legislation by Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.): “...
W ASHINGTON — Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund President and Chief Executive Office Margaret Huang released the following statement regarding today’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Police Use of Force and Community...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced it is investing up to $30 million from its endowment in voter outreach organizations in the Deep South to increase voter registration and participation...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Today, in a decision that will protect the health and right to vote of medically vulnerable Alabamians, a federal court waived onerous absentee ballot requirements in at least Jefferson, Mobile, and Lee...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, in a 6-3 ruling written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the United States Supreme Court ruled that “[a]n employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.” The ruling was in...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the following statement in response to the Atlanta police killing of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, Friday...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – To address ongoing confusion regarding the recent federal court decision ruling affirming the ability for Floridians with past felony convictions who cannot afford outstanding legal financial obligations to...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its final rule that rolls back critical anti-discrimination protections in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). HHS plans to abandon the...
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 SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee adopting an amendment which will allow the Pentagon to remove the names of...
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...