Jacksonville, Fla. – Today, a federal court judge ordered fairer maps for the Jacksonville City Council and Duval County School Board. This decision ensures that the maps drawn by Jacksonville voting rights organizations and...

MONTGOMERY, Ala.— Dr. Cassie Miller, senior research analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) Intelligence Project, released the following statement ahead of the start of United States of America v Tarrio et al. ,...

WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden signed HR 8404 , the Respect for Marriage Act , repealing the discriminatory 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and providing federal protection for same-sex and interracial marriages. The following...

ATLANTA – A Cobb County Superior Court judge has granted a preliminary injunction extending the deadline for receiving delayed absentee ballots for certain voters, along with other accommodations, in response to a lawsuit filed...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...