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FREE Admission to the SPLC's Civil Rights Memorial Center: Dec. 5-7, 2022

December 02, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Starting Monday, Dec. 5 the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), will offer visitors free admission in observance of the 67 th anniversary of the Montgomery...

LEGAL ADVOCATES FILE LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF FLORIDA’S MIGRANT RELOCATION PROGRAM

December 01, 2022

MIAMI — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Leontire & Associates, P.C. and the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) of Harvard Law School filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...

COBB COUNTY FAILS TO SEND ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR SECOND TIME AS SPLC AND ACLU FILE SECOND ROUND OF LITIGATION

December 01, 2022

ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Dechert LLP took renewed legal action today after the Cobb County...

EXCLUSIVE REPORTING: Illinois GOP Official Affiliates with Extremist Groups & Shares Racist Posts

December 01, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A  new investigative report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch reveals that an official in Illinois’ DuPage County Republican Party is a leader in a radical parent group,...

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER STATEMENT ON CONVICTIONS IN OATH KEEPERS SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY TRIALS

November 30, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement after the historic convictions of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and group member Kelly Meggs on seditious...

FSUS Agrees to Allow First Grader to Return to School

November 22, 2022

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State University Schools, Inc. (FSUS), a public K-12 charter school, rescinded their decision to involuntarily withdraw a 6-year-old Latino student for allegedly throwing a tantrum, according to a...

SPLC RESPONDS TO TWITTER REINSTATING DONALD TRUMP

November 21, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Michael Edison Hayden, senior investigative reporter and spokesperson, Intelligence Project, after Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk,...

Parents Challenging Alabama’s Criminal Ban on Healthcare for Transgender Adolescents to Argue before the 11th Circuit

November 18, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Plaintiffs challenging Alabama’s SB 184 will urge the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to affirm the district court’s order barring enforcement of the law, which would criminalize doctors and...

SPLC APPLAUDS STRIKING DOWN OF TITLE 42 POLICY

November 17, 2022

WASHINGTON — Rebecca Cassler, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project , released the following statement in response to Tuesday’s decision by the U.S. District Court for the District...

NEW RESOURCE FROM SPLC AND PERIL AIMS TO HELP COMMUNITIES COUNTER MAINSTREAMING OF HATE IN AMERICA

November 16, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. and WASHINGTON (November 16, 2022) — At a moment in America when extremism is threatening grassroots democracy, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation...

Gwinnett County Students, Caregivers and Educators Demand Safety and Justice, not Criminalization in Open Letter

November 14, 2022

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Georgia Youth Justice Coalition and Gwinnett County students, caregivers, and educators, alongside partners Gwinnett SToPP, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Gwinnett County NAACP, released an open...

SPLC Welcomes the “Traveling While Black” Exhibit to the Civil Rights Memorial Center

November 10, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala . – The Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will feature the Traveling While Black (TWB) project through January 22, 2023. Whether in their homes or on the...

GEORGIA COURT GRANTS IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR COBB COUNTY ABSENTEE VOTERS

November 07, 2022

ATLANTA – The Cobb County Superior Court issued an emergency ruling today to ensure that hundreds of Cobb County voters who had requested absentee ballots – but not yet received them – can still vote. As part of the ruling, the...

ACLU AND SPLC FILE EMERGENCY LITIGATION TO ENSURE COBB COUNTY RESIDENTS CAN VOTE ABSENTEE AFTER COBB COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS FAILS TO SEND OUT MORE THAN 1,000 BALLOTS

November 06, 2022

ATLANTA – The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Dechert LLP filed a lawsuit today seeking emergency relief so that...

SPLC’S HATEWATCH ANALYSIS: Newsweek’s Growing Embrace of the Far-Right  

November 04, 2022

WASHINGTON – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch released a new analysis today that documents how Newsweek’s opinion pages have embraced the radical right since Opinion Page Editor Josh Hammer took the reins in the...

Education Advocates Threaten Lawsuit Against Georgia’s Classroom Censorship Law

November 04, 2022

GEORGIA – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), National Education Association (NEA) and Georgia Association of Educators (GAE) announced plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s classroom censorship law –...

Southern Poverty Law Center calls on Ron DeSantis to pardon Floridians convicted of marijuana possession

November 01, 2022

Tallahassee, Fla. — Early today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sent a letter to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asking him to pardon Floridians convicted of simple marijuana possession.The move would follow similar steps taken...

The Southern Poverty Law Center Appeals Decision by Florida State University Schools to Remove 6-year-old for Allegedly Throwing a Tantrum

October 27, 2022

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is challenging a decision by Florida State University Schools , a K-12 public charter school, to involuntarily withdraw a 6-year-old Latino student in violation of his...

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER ISSUES STATEMENT ON COURT RULING DENYING GOVERNMENT’S MOTION TO DISMISS IN FAMILY SEPARATION CASE

October 21, 2022

WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Norma Ventura , staff attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project , in response to a federal court ruling allowing a challenge to...

Judge Refuses to Block Florida Law Known as “Don’t Say Gay or Trans”

October 21, 2022

Orlando, FL – Yesterday, a U.S. District Court refused to halt Florida’s enacted House Bill 1557, commonly referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” law, and dismissed the case altogether, but is allowing the plaintiffs an...

FEDERAL COURT PRELIMINARILY APPROVES CLASSWIDE SETTLEMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT CHALLENGING WORKPLACE ICE RAID

October 19, 2022

KNOXVILLE, TN — On Oct. 19, a federal judge preliminarily approved a class settlement of a lawsuit challenging an April 2018 immigration raid. The settlement provides over $1 million to workers detained as part of the raid, which...

SPLC UPDATES EXTREMIST FILE ON ANDREW ANGLIN

October 13, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released an updated Extremist File on Andrew Anglin , the neo-Nazi who founded the Daily Stormer website. The SPLC first published an Extremist File on Anglin in 2016...

COURT BLOCKS RACIALLY GERRYMANDERED JACKSONVILLE CITY COUNCIL MAPS FOR 2023 AND 2024 ELECTIONS

October 12, 2022

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – TODAY, through a preliminary injunction, a court blocked Jacksonville city council and school board maps that pack together Black communities to deny them a fair voice in government. The preliminary...

Prison Strike Shows the Need for Parole, Early Release and Other Reforms in Alabama Prisons

October 12, 2022

Montgomery, Ala. -- Last week, an organized prison strike began in correctional facilities throughout the state. Incarcerated people charged with cooking, cleaning and doing other tasks to take care of the facility all refused to...

THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER ISSUES STATEMENT ON PATRIOT FRONT CONSPIRACY TRIALS

October 11, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Jeff Tischauser, senior research analyst with the organization’s Intelligence Project, as trials get underway for Patriot Front...

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