August 12, 2021
WASHINGTON — Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement on the fourth anniversary of the white supremacist rally/riots in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Looking back at...
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August 12, 2021
ATLANTA – Today the U.S. Census Bureau publicly released critical data that will be essential in the Georgia General Assembly’s decennial redistricting process. Yesterday, the last town hall opportunity for the public to offer...
August 09, 2021
ATLANTA - Today, in response to public hearings on the redistricting process in Georgia coming to a close before the Census Bureau has released relevant data, civil rights and progressive organizations urged elected leaders to...
August 09, 2021
August 9, 2021 (Atlanta, GA) ¾ The Lynn Walker Huntley Social Justice Fellowship, which will help early-career attorneys develop the skills and experience they need to advance education equity through research, policy analysis,...
August 06, 2021
GAINESVILLE, FL --Yesterday, the Gainesville City Commission voted to file a complaint against the Combating Violence, Disorder, and Looking and Law Enforcement Protection Act, also known as HB 1. Passed and signed into law in...
August 04, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Students in Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) are returning to school next week, but Amy Donofrio, a 13-year, nationally recognized educator who was banned from her classroom at Robert E. Lee High School in...
August 02, 2021
FLORIDA – With millions of children across Florida set to return to school this month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Friday barring school districts from implementing face mask requirements for their...
July 30, 2021
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Today, the Gwinnett County Board of Education voted to name Calvin J. Watts as the new superintendent of Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), Georgia’s largest and most diverse school district. He will...
July 30, 2021
JACKSON, Miss. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP filed an amicus brief yesterday supporting the plaintiffs in Harness v. Watson who are seeking – like plaintiffs in ongoing SPLC-filed...
July 28, 2021
With a rise in hate violence across the country, a new report from the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) and 16 leading civil rights organizations provides a groundbreaking analysis of state and federal hate crime laws. The...
July 28, 2021
NEW ORLEANS, La. – Black migrant survivors of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and immigration advocates at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to fire...
July 20, 2021
MIAMI – Immigration advocates have filed a complaint charging Krome detention guards dragged and choked a Honduran man amid a psychological emergency, after they had continuously refused him treatment. This is the latest in a...
July 20, 2021
LAFAYETTE, La. — On Saturday, July 17, a Jim Crow-era statue erected to celebrate Gen. Alfred Mouton was removed from downtown Lafayette. Mouton helped train a local “Vigilante Committee” under the guise of fighting crime but...
July 16, 2021
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, voters with disabilities joined existing ones as new plaintiffs to a lawsuit previously filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Fair Elections Center challenging Florida Senate Bill 90 (SB...
July 13, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Today, President Joe Biden delivered a speech on voting rights in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center. Please go here to see SPLC Action Fund’s letter to all 100 U.S. Senators today urging passage of...
July 12, 2021
MIAMI – Immigrants held in U.S. custody and their attorneys reached a settlement with the federal government over COVID-19 protocols at three South Florida Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers. The...
July 07, 2021
WASHINGTON – Six months after the insurrection, Twitter remains a major tool for far-right extremists, enabling and boosting their efforts. A new analysis released today by Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch documents...
July 06, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey upheld an order enforcing a permanent injunction against New Jersey-based conversion therapy promoters and awarding attorneys’ fees for bringing...
July 01, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and Arizona Republican Party v. Democratic National Committee. The SPLC filed a friend-of-the-court...
June 29, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — New tools to help parents and educators protect vulnerable young people from online radicalization were released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and American University’s Polarization and...
June 29, 2021
ATLANTA, Ga. – The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced a joint fellowship program to help early-career attorneys develop the skills and experience they need to advance...
June 28, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, for the second time, the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit meant to bar transgender students from bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Today's decision rejected an appeal by a Virginia school...
June 28, 2021
ATLANTA, Ga. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a billboard in support of advocacy efforts in Georgia to remove Confederate symbols from public spaces. The billboard is located at the Langford/I-85/75 split heading...
June 25, 2021
MADISON, Wis. –– On behalf of the Rural Coalition, the Intertribal Agriculture Council, the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers Land Loss Prevention Project and 23 additional farm, rural, environmental, health and civil...
June 23, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Melissa Crow, a senior supervising attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), released the following statement responding to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) announcement concerning...
