July 01, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to President Trump’s tweet threatening to veto the Department of Defense Authorization bill if it includes the amendment...
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July 01, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday signed into law Senate Bill 664, an expansion of Florida’s E-Verify policy. The new law requires Florida’s public employers, including municipalities, local governments, and any...
July 01, 2020
ATLANTA — Today, advocates from eight student rights and education advocacy organizations sent a letter to Georgia officials urging proactive and equitable measures to address the challenges that the COVID-19 crisis has had and...
June 30, 2020
Tallahassee, Fla. — SPLC Action Fund Managing Attorney, Children’s Rights, Bacardi Jackson released the statement below after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reappropriated over $41 million dollars from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas...
June 30, 2020
ATLANTA, Ga. -- Today SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang sent a letter to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp asking him to veto three pieces of legislation that have passed the state House and Senate. “We write to urge...
June 30, 2020
WASHINGTON – Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS), a campaign of the Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC Action Fund, Education Law Center, and Munger, Tolles & Olson, issued the below statement following the U.S. Supreme Court...
June 30, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In the midst of a pandemic and nationwide protests against racial injustice, American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today...
June 30, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is joining the #StopHateforProfit campaign launched earlier this month by the Anti-Defamation League, Color of Change, Common Sense Media, Free Press, the NAACP and...
June 30, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. – The following statement is regarding the passage of the HCR 47 conference report yesterday in the Mississippi Legislature, which will put a constitutional amendment on the November 2020 ballot to end the two-...
June 29, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released an update to its Whose Heritage report which tracks symbols of the Confederacy on public land across the United States: Total number of Confederate symbols...
June 28, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Mississippi Policy Director Brandon Jones released the following statement in response to the passage of HB 1796 by the Mississippi legislature to remove the Confederate battle emblem from...
June 27, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Brandon Jones released the following statement in response to the passage of House Concurrent Resolution 79 by the Mississippi legislature which clears the way for removal of the...
June 26, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to Army leaders announcing that they will hold off on banning Confederate symbols and renaming installations currently named for...
June 25, 2020
WASHINGTON — The SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the statement below following the U.S. House of Representatives passing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 tonight: “While we are encouraged...
June 25, 2020
ATLANTA – Today, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a huge win for Alabama voters who are at risk of contracting COVID-19. The Circuit Court denied the defendants’ emergency motion to stay a lower court decision in...
June 25, 2020
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, in response to today’s Supreme Court decision in...
June 25, 2020
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Last night, civil rights advocates filed a motion to enforce a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Central Division of California, seeking to enforce U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal’s...
June 24, 2020
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...
June 24, 2020
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...
June 23, 2020
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...
June 23, 2020
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...
June 23, 2020
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...
June 22, 2020
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...
June 20, 2020
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...
June 20, 2020
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...
