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Southern Poverty Law Center denounces lack of justice in Breonna Taylor case

September 23, 2020

LOUISVILLE , KY -- Earlier today a Jefferson County grand jury declined to bring any charges against three white police officers for the deadly shooting of Breonna Taylor, a Black 26-year-old emergency medical technician. One...

SPLC Action: Chad Wolf Serves Trump’s Agenda, Not the Public’s

September 23, 2020

WASHINGTON – Today, Acting Department of Homeland (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee for his official confirmation hearing. Wolf has been unlawfully serving...

New SPLC Analysis: Mass Parole Denials in Alabama Amid Pandemic

September 22, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Nearly 200 of the 1,100 people older than 65 in Alabama prisons are eligible for parole but have not been released despite the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)...

Governor DeSantis' Proposal Would Criminalize Protest and Dissent

September 21, 2020

Tallahassee, FL — Earlier today Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for a new law, the “combating violence, disorder and looting law enforcement act” to be passed during the 2021 general session that would put people at risk of...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Rev. Robert S. Graetz Jr.

September 21, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. – The Rev. Robert S. Graetz Jr., an unflinching advocate for civil rights and the only white clergyman to publicly support the Montgomery Bus Boycott, passed from complications related to Parkinson’s disease on...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

September 18, 2020

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an epic figure in American history and a champion of women’s rights and reproductive justice, passed from complications related to pancreatic cancer on Friday. She was...

SPLC: FDC and ICE Entanglement Undermines Community Trust and Public Safety

September 18, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) entered a Memorandum of Agreement to implement the 287(g) program, which allows for the formal coordination...

New SPLC Polls Finds Overwhelming Support for Anti-Racism Education

September 17, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, as President Donald Trump doubles down on his attack on schools using the 1619 Project with the announcement of the “1776 Commission,” and his recent orders to federal agencies to end anti-racism training in...

New Issue of Teaching Tolerance Magazine Examines Role of Students and Teachers in Shaping Democracy, Countering Youth Voter Suppression

September 17, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Even though voter turnout among young people during the 2018 U.S. midterm election was the highest it had been in decades, only about 35 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in the...

SPLC and SPLC Action Fund Release Priorities Agenda for Next Presidential Term

September 16, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the SPLC Action Fund released Vision for a Just Future , an joint action agenda of priorities and recommendations for executive and federal agency action, for...

SPLC Whose Heritage? Dataset Updates as of September 15, 2020

September 15, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released an update to its Whose Heritage? report which tracks symbols of the Confederacy on public land across the United States: Total number of Confederate symbols...

New Chapter of SPLC’s ‘Sounds Like Hate’ Looks at a Vermont High School Grappling with Racism

September 14, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the second chapter of its newly launched original podcast — Sounds Like Hate — an audio documentary series about the dangers and peril of everyday people who...

SPLC: Federal Appeals Court Decision in Florida Voting Rights Case "Completely Contrary to the Words and Spirit of our Constitution"

September 11, 2020

ATLANTA - The following statement regarding today's U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decision in Jones v. Florida is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: "With mere days before...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Senate GOP COVID-19 Relief Bill Vote

September 10, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the statement below following a Senate vote on a new GOP COVID-19 relief package, which received 52 votes and failed to move forward. The Republican bill was...

Immigrant Rights Advocates Ask Court to Permanently Block Trump Policy Turning Back Asylum Seekers

September 08, 2020

September 8, 2020, San Diego – Asylum seekers who have been turned back by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border asked a federal court to permanently stop the Trump...

Parents, Districts, and NAACP Win Major Victory as Federal Court Blocks Illegal DeVos Rule Nationwide

September 04, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late this afternoon, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in NAACP v. DeVos , striking down a rule that imposes unlawful conditions on federal emergency aid for...

New Study Reveals Florida’s School Policing Mandate Has Increased Negative Outcomes for Students

September 03, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The heightened presence of police officers in Florida schools in the past two years has led to an unprecedented increase in school arrests, according to a new study. A collaborative project led by the ACLU of...

Federal Judge Orders External Monitoring of Mental Health Care in Alabama Prisons

September 03, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Noting decades of inadequate mental health care provided to people incarcerated in Alabama prisons, a federal judge has adopted a plan to monitor the Alabama Department of Corrections’ (ADOC) compliance in...

Conduct of armed white man at Black Lives Matter protest must be investigated

September 03, 2020

Tallahassee, FL — A man who pulled a gun on peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstrators on Saturday, Aug. 29th in Tallahassee has yet to be charged for the incident despite video of the encounter, with law enforcement saying it...

SPLC Asks Joy Reid to Issue Public Apology for Anti-Muslim Comments

September 02, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today joined other civil rights and Muslim leaders in calling for MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” anchor Joy Reid to issue an on-air apology for comparing President Trump’s attempts...

SPLC Whose Heritage? Dataset Updates as of September 1, 2020

September 01, 2020

SPLC Reaches Settlement in Lawsuit Against Florida MSD Commission

August 31, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission has agreed to abide by its own commitments about when it will take public comments during its meetings and hold those meetings in locations...

‘The heat is consuming them’: Families Report Dire and Rapidly Deteriorating Conditions at Louisiana ICE Prisons

August 30, 2020

NEW ORLEANS – Families of loved ones detained at Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, Louisiana and LaSalle Correctional Center in Olla, Louisiana, two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) migrant prisons...

EXCLUSIVE: SPLC Investigation Shows Man Who Marched with Alleged Kenosha Gunman Was Immersed in White Supremacist Propaganda

August 30, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — A Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch investigation found that Ryan Balch, a 31-year-old Wisconsin man who says he “inserted “ himself with an alleged gunman and a contingent of militia conducting armed...

SPLC mourns the death of Sylvester Hartley, plaintiff in lawsuit challenging inadequate health care in Alabama prisons

August 28, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Sylvester Hartley, a named plaintiff in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) longstanding Braggs v. Dunn lawsuit challenging the inadequate health care provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections,...

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