WASHINGTON – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP signed an Amicus Brief on behalf of tens of thousands of Mississippians urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that could...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Starting Monday, Dec. 5 the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), will offer visitors free admission in observance of the 67 th anniversary of the Montgomery...
MIAMI — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Leontire & Associates, P.C. and the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) of Harvard Law School filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...
ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Dechert LLP took renewed legal action today after the Cobb County...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new investigative report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch reveals that an official in Illinois’ DuPage County Republican Party is a leader in a radical parent group,...
MONTGOMERY, Ala — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement after the historic convictions of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and group member Kelly Meggs on seditious...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State University Schools, Inc. (FSUS), a public K-12 charter school, rescinded their decision to involuntarily withdraw a 6-year-old Latino student for allegedly throwing a tantrum, according to a...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Michael Edison Hayden, senior investigative reporter and spokesperson, Intelligence Project, after Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk,...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Plaintiffs challenging Alabama’s SB 184 will urge the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to affirm the district court’s order barring enforcement of the law, which would criminalize doctors and...
WASHINGTON — Rebecca Cassler, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project , released the following statement in response to Tuesday’s decision by the U.S. District Court for the District...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. and WASHINGTON (November 16, 2022) — At a moment in America when extremism is threatening grassroots democracy, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation...
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Georgia Youth Justice Coalition and Gwinnett County students, caregivers, and educators, alongside partners Gwinnett SToPP, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Gwinnett County NAACP, released an open...
MONTGOMERY, Ala . – The Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will feature the Traveling While Black (TWB) project through January 22, 2023. Whether in their homes or on the...
ATLANTA – The Cobb County Superior Court issued an emergency ruling today to ensure that hundreds of Cobb County voters who had requested absentee ballots – but not yet received them – can still vote. As part of the ruling, the...
ATLANTA – The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Dechert LLP filed a lawsuit today seeking emergency relief so that...
WASHINGTON – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch released a new analysis today that documents how Newsweek’s opinion pages have embraced the radical right since Opinion Page Editor Josh Hammer took the reins in the...
GEORGIA – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), National Education Association (NEA) and Georgia Association of Educators (GAE) announced plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s classroom censorship law –...
Tallahassee, Fla. — Early today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sent a letter to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asking him to pardon Floridians convicted of simple marijuana possession.The move would follow similar steps taken...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is challenging a decision by Florida State University Schools , a K-12 public charter school, to involuntarily withdraw a 6-year-old Latino student in violation of his...
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Norma Ventura , staff attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project , in response to a federal court ruling allowing a challenge to...
Orlando, FL – Yesterday, a U.S. District Court refused to halt Florida’s enacted House Bill 1557, commonly referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” law, and dismissed the case altogether, but is allowing the plaintiffs an...
KNOXVILLE, TN — On Oct. 19, a federal judge preliminarily approved a class settlement of a lawsuit challenging an April 2018 immigration raid. The settlement provides over $1 million to workers detained as part of the raid, which...
MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released an updated Extremist File on Andrew Anglin , the neo-Nazi who founded the Daily Stormer website. The SPLC first published an Extremist File on Anglin in 2016...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – TODAY, through a preliminary injunction, a court blocked Jacksonville city council and school board maps that pack together Black communities to deny them a fair voice in government. The preliminary...
Montgomery, Ala. -- Last week, an organized prison strike began in correctional facilities throughout the state. Incarcerated people charged with cooking, cleaning and doing other tasks to take care of the facility all refused to...