December 17, 2021
NEW ORLEANS –– A coalition of immigrants’ and human rights organizations today delivered a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demanding immediate intervention from the Biden...
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December 10, 2021
MIAMI – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Anne Janet Hernandez Anderson, a Senior Supervising Attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to Gov. DeSantis’ proposed...
December 09, 2021
ATLANTA – Today, a federal court denied the three motions to dismiss litigation filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and others challenging 2021 Georgia law S.B. 202. These motions were filed by the State of Georgia,...
December 08, 2021
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – This week, the Florida Department of Education removed its anti-bullying portal from public view. The page contained vital information that included the state’s anti-bullying policy. The removal of such a...
December 07, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Yesterday, the Department of Justice closed a reopened investigation into the murder of Emmett Till without filing new charges. The following statement is by Tafeni English, Director of the Civil Rights...
December 07, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by LaShawn Warren, Chief Policy Officer, in advance of the virtual Global Democracy Summit in Washington on December 9 and 10. At the event...
December 06, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced a $100 million reinvestment from its endowment to its Vote Your Voice program over the next decade – increasing its commitment by more than three-fold from...
December 03, 2021
JACKSON, Miss. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will showcase a tree of remembrance at the annual Festival of Lights in downtown Jackson. The tree will honor the nine Mississippi children who have died from the COVID-19...
December 03, 2021
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, responding to the Biden administration’s planned...
December 02, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Attorney General fined the city of Montgomery $25,000 after a Confederate named street was renamed to commemorate civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray. The state attorney general’s office has stated a...
November 30, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center launched “The Unwelcome,” the fifth episode from season three of its latest Sounds Like Hate podcast series. The episode looks at migrant mistreatment and deaths;...
November 24, 2021
ATLANTA -- Today a jury convicted Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The trio, all of whom are white, jumped into a truck and chased Arbery, a Black man who was jogging...
November 24, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement applauding today’s jury ruling that the “Unite the Right” organizers of the far-right rally in...
November 19, 2021
MONTGOMERY, AL – Today, a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for the murders of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and the attempted murder of Gaige Grosskreutz. Rittenhouse was one of many armed civilians who came out to the...
November 18, 2021
Montgomery, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is celebrating 50 years of advocacy with a virtual, livestreamed event, “SPLC 50th Anniversary Celebration,” to be held Thursday, Nov. 18 at 7:00 p.m. CT/8:00 p.m. ET. “The...
November 17, 2021
MOBILE, Ala. - Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) urged in a letter the Mayor and City Council of Mobile, Alabama, to consider their “affirmative obligation” under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) in...
November 16, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center launched part two of “Fostering Hate,” the fourth episode of the new season of the Sounds Like Hate podcast, which reports on the overt discrimination and hate allowed to...
November 15, 2021
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a pair of lawsuits in federal court challenging Alabama’s newly drawn political maps for state legislative and congressional districts...
November 10, 2021
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Law Office of Allison B. Vrolijk and Goodmark Law Firm filed a notice of appeal of the Court’s decision last month denying Cobb County students with disabilities...
November 10, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville City Council voted to ignore their community’s plea to remove the Confederate monument in Springfield Park. The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “We are...
November 09, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center launched “Fostering Hate,” the third episode from season three of its latest Sounds Like Hate podcast series . The stories you will hear corroborate that discrimination...
November 05, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Last week, three Jacksonville City Council committees voted to leave the Women of the Southland monument standing in Springfield Park. This decision followed Mayor Lenny Curry’s promise to remove all of...
November 04, 2021
Los Angeles, CA – Six asylum seekers subjected to the “Remain in Mexico” policy are seeking an emergency order from a federal court allowing them to return to the United States to pursue their claims for asylum and related relief...
November 02, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) new season of its Sounds Like Hate podcast series features a new host: author, journalist and educator Yvonne Latty. Next week, the latest episode, which tackles the...
October 29, 2021
NEW ORLEANS – More than six years after a federal judge entered a consent judgment to remedy systemic discrimination of students with disabilities in New Orleans’s decentralized public school system, the Southern Poverty Law...
