September 16, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In June 2020, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry promised to remove the Monument to the Women of the Confederacy in Springfield Park. While the statue has been covered, it still sits in a public park,...
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September 16, 2021
GREENSBORO, N.C. - North Carolina farmworkers and their sole union won a substantial victory yesterday when a federal court struck down part of a state law that would have stripped farmworkers and their union of their rights to...
September 10, 2021
Jackson, Miss.—Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center, in partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, are urging Mississippi lawmakers and officials to take swift action to address violations of environmental...
September 08, 2021
AUSTIN, Tx. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a billboard in support of Wilco Patriots , which has been advocating for removal of a Confederate monument in front of the Historic Williamson County Courthouse for more...
September 07, 2021
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida NAACP, Florida Student Power Network, and several medically vulnerable families across Florida are requesting a hearing before the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings to invalidate an...
September 03, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Maura Finn, lead attorney with SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative, regarding the long-overdue end to the practice of caging...
September 03, 2021
RICHMOND, Va. – Recently, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the state can remove its statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from public display on Monument Avenue. The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff...
September 02, 2021
San Diego, CA – A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S southern border. The court ruled that the United States is required by law to inspect...
September 02, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Responding to the just-released FBI 2020 Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is calling for the Biden administration and Congress to take stronger action to improve...
September 01, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch team released a new investigative report today detailing how far-right propogandist Charles Bausman involved himself in Pennsylvania-based Stop the Steal...
September 01, 2021
San Diego, CA – Immigrant rights advocates released the following statement after presenting oral arguments before U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California, where they urged the court to declare...
August 30, 2021
ATLANTA, Ga. — Recently, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) updated its Whose Heritage? database, which found 100 additional schools glorifying Confederate leaders scattered across the country. To date, there are 45 public...
August 30, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced that Tia T. Gordon , an award-winning global communications strategist, has joined the organization as Chief Communications Officer. Tia will oversee strategy...
August 30, 2021
Montgomery, Ala.-- Alabama’s panhandling laws violate the First Amendment’s protection of free speech, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the state by the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU of Alabama and...
August 30, 2021
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – Cobb County Schools, Georgia’s second largest school district, which is responsible for more than 100,000 students each year, reported last Friday that the number of COVID-19 cases in their school district...
August 24, 2021
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, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of a stay of...
August 24, 2021
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Yesterday, the Biden Administration took the surprising step of filing an appeal to a federal court order requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to vaccinate medically vulnerable people in...
August 23, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Maura Finn, lead attorney with the SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative regarding continuing immigration detention operations at the...
August 20, 2021
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Law Offices of Joshua Spector, P.A. filed a legal complaint challenging part of an Emergency Rule issued on August 6 by the Florida Department of...
August 16, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a series of reports today revealing current, consistent, and well-documented racial discrimination in voting in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi as Congress...
August 16, 2021
ATLANTA -- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed an amicus brief in the Georgia Court of Appeals in Efficiency Lodge Inc. v. Neason. The case involves a landlord that sought to self-help evict some of its tenants...
August 16, 2021
Los Angeles, CA – Immigration advocates filed an amended complaint in a class action lawsuit challenging the continuing effects of the “Remain in Mexico” policy on asylum-seeking individuals who remain stranded outside the United...
August 13, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, as we continue to remember and honor the memory of Heather Heyer and her stand against white supremacy at the deadly Unite the Right Rally in 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) releases new...
August 12, 2021
WASHINGTON — Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement on the fourth anniversary of the white supremacist rally/riots in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Looking back at...
August 12, 2021
ATLANTA – Today the U.S. Census Bureau publicly released critical data that will be essential in the Georgia General Assembly’s decennial redistricting process. Yesterday, the last town hall opportunity for the public to offer...
