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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Sarah Rich, senior supervising attorney with the Immigrant Justice Project, in response to the new Department of Homeland Security memo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement reflecting on the third anniversary of the white nationalist attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue. “Today...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched the first episode in the third season of its Sounds Like Hate podcast series today. Through personal stories of individual voters and activists, this premiere...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Southern states’ failure to prioritize public education has an outsized impact on students of color and students living in or near poverty, a new study released today by Education Law Center (ELC) and the...