October 26, 2020
JACKSON, Mississippi – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has launched a $25,000 digital advertising campaign, urging Mississippians to vote yes on Ballot Measure 2 on Election Day. Ballot Measure 2 would ensure that...
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October 23, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A new analysis released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that as voters across the country begin to cast their ballots for the 2020 General Election, younger voters are turning out more but...
October 22, 2020
WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the below statement ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to approve the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court and recommend...
October 22, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday evening, the Supreme Court of the United States granted an application for stay brought by the defendants in the People First of Alabama v. John Merrill litigation, thereby preventing Alabama counties...
October 21, 2020
CHATTANOOGA – Earlier today, the Hamilton County Commission voted to allow a Jim Crow-era bust to remain in front of its courthouse. The following statement is from Southern Poverty Law Center Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “While...
October 21, 2020
TROY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed two complaints against the Pike County Board of Education for arbitrarily suspending students, in violation of their due process rights under the U.S. Constitution...
October 21, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A new analysis released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that with less than two weeks to go before the 2020 General Election, at least 38 million Americans have not mailed in their ballots...
October 21, 2020
WASHINGTON — An investigation published today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch reveals that President Trump’s Deputy Communications Director Julia Hahn had connections to the white nationalist movement around...
October 20, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. – Today in Mississippi, plaintiffs and civil rights groups that challenged Mississippi’s burdensome absentee ballot requirements celebrated new protections put in place for absentee voters as the state conducts an...
October 20, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A new analysis released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that as voters across the country begin to cast their ballots for the 2020 General Election, younger voters continue to lag in...
October 19, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a Ninth Circuit decision that held illegal a Trump administration policy that sends asylum seekers to wait in Mexico in dangerous conditions as their claims for...
October 16, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – An analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that as voters across the country begin to cast their ballots for the 2020 General Election, voters under 30 across 42 states have requested ballots...
October 15, 2020
Montgomery, Ala. — The latest episode of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)’s podcast Sounds Like Hate published today with exclusive and never-before-heard recordings from a neo-Nazi white supremacist group, The Base ...
October 15, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about the final 24 hours of counting for the 2020 census is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Until 6:00AM Eastern Daylight Time on October 16,...
October 14, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced that over 100 Confederate symbols have been removed since May 26, 2020 — the start of the protests following the police killing of George Floyd. The Whose...
October 13, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Supreme Court's decision to halt the census count while litigation continues in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director...
October 13, 2020
ATLANTA — The following statement regarding today's United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit split decision in People First of Alabama v. John Merrill is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the Southern...
October 12, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the statement below in commemoration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day: “On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and every day, we honor the first peoples to...
October 09, 2020
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today joined more than 20 medical associations and experts in filing an amicus brief in Brown vs. Azar, supporting the Center for Disease Control’s eviction moratorium during the COVID-19...
October 08, 2020
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Last night in the U.S. District Court for the Central Division of California, U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal granted civil rights organizations' motion to enforce a preliminary injunction in their class-...
October 08, 2020
Montgomery, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project announced today that, in pursuit of a more accurate hate map , we will be collapsing the Black Separatist listings and be reclassifying them under...
October 08, 2020
NEW ORLEANS – On Monday, October 12, during a court hearing in Lafayette, Louisiana, Move the Mindset (MTM) and community members will call on the 15th Judicial District Court to nullify a permanent injunction which prevents the...
October 08, 2020
WASHINGTON – Cameroon American Council, Freedom for Immigrants, Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Detention Watch Network (DWN), Natchez Network, Haitian Bridge Alliance, and...
October 08, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (October 8, 2020): Today, Juvenile Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Education Law Center-PA released the report Credit Overdue: How States Can Mitigate Academic Credit Transfer Problems for Youth in...
October 07, 2020
ATLANTA – Today, in response to the anticipated overwhelming number of absentee ballots that will be cast during the 2020 General Election in November and service cuts to the United States Postal Service (USPS), the Southern...
