Southern Poverty Law Center Interim President and CEO Karen Baynes-Dunning issued the follow the statement: “The Trump administration is continuing its racist agenda by targeting immigrants through a cruel policy primarily aimed...

JACKSON, Miss. - Today, We Vote! Mississippi, a voter engagement project led by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is announcing 785 completed voter registration forms collected to date in Hinds County and historically black...

September 26, 2019, San Diego –Today, immigrant rights attorneys moved to block the Trump administration’s Asylum Ban from affecting tens of thousands of migrants who have already attempted to access the U.S. asylum process...

ORLANDO, Fla. – An Orlando law enforcement officer last week arrested two young students — ages 6 and 8 — in separate incidents involving misbehavior at the Lucious & Emma Nixon Academy Charter School, where the students...

JACKSON, Miss. – Ahead of the pivotal 2019 statewide Mississippi elections in November, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced a non-partisan, grassroots voter engagement project called We Vote! Mississippi, which...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The suicide rate among young, black students has steadily increased in the past few years but schools can help mitigate outcomes by connecting students to critical mental health services, as well as addressing...

Using fake names and fictional avatars, people devoted to hate and extremism exude courage and commitment to their causes online. But that changes when the world learns their real names. In the latest issue of the Southern...

OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal court has reinstated a nationwide injunction blocking a Trump administration asylum ban that denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third country en route to the...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. --Citing scientific, medical and mental health evidence likening solitary confinement to torture and demonstrating its dangers to the development and rehabilitation of children, the Southern Poverty Law Center (...

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 a new Trump administration rule that...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s community corrections pay-to-play model prioritizes making money over rehabilitation or public safety, according to a special investigative report the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As part of an effort to improve classroom lessons about American slavery and the important role it played in shaping the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project has released...