WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement on today’s announcement by the White House that President Biden will host the United We Stand Summit next month. “We...

MONTGOMERY – On Friday, August 12th a judge dismissed the case Hudson v. Ivey filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU-AL) that had the potential to restore a...

WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement on the fifth anniversary of the deadly white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Va. “Five years ago, the jarring...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal court in Tennessee has cleared the way for a collective federal civil rights action brought on behalf of over 100 Latino workers against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Internal...

San Diego, CA (Aug. 10, 2022) – On Friday, August 5, a district court judge ruled in Al Otro Lado v. Mayorkas that the government’s turnback policy — its practice of systematically rejecting asylum seekers at ports of entry along...

NEW ORLEANS — On the heels of the ACLU’s new research study about barriers to legal representation in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, the ACLU of Louisiana and its coalition partners – National...

LOUISIANA – Following Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards’ announcement last month that the state will temporarily house incarcerated youth at the Angola prison complex, the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights (LCCR), Loyola...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is representing a former Campbell High School student who is facing a new hearing today before a hearing officer designated by the Cobb County Board of Education after the...

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. – The Georgia State Board of Education has reversed a decision by the Liberty County Board of Education to suspend a seventh-grade Black student from Lewis Frasier Middle School, ruling that the suspension...

Nashville, Tenn. – Following Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s announcement that the state immediately will begin implementing its controversial private school voucher program for the school year starting in just a few weeks, public...

JACKSONVILLE – TODAY the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida , Harvard Election Law Clinic and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed for a preliminary injunction on behalf of the Jacksonville NAACP Branch , the...

BIRMINGHAM – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU-AL) filed litigation on behalf of Tiara Young Hudson challenging the constitutionality of the Alabama Judicial...