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SPLC Analysis: Racial disparities apparent as hundreds denied parole in Alabama in June

July 20, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Hundreds of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons were denied parole in June, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) analysis published today. SPLC reviewed 452 parole hearings in June and found...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis

July 18, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose life’s work to combat racial injustice began in the segregated South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and original group of 13 Freedom Riders...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Rev. C.T. Vivian

July 17, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement on the passing of Civil Rights leader Reverend C.T. Vivian earlier this morning: “C.T. Vivian was a...

SPLC Action Fund Calls for Immediate Removal of Mississippi Confederate Monument

July 17, 2020

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – On Monday, July 20, the Black Empowerment Organization (BEO) and community members will call on the Neshoba County Board of Supervisors to eliminate symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces by removing...

Federal Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Traumatized Migrant Families Torn Apart by Trump Administration’s Separation Policy

July 16, 2020

PHOENIX – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman filed an amended federal lawsuit today adding four additional migrant families to the filing who were separated from their...

SPLC: SCOTUS Decision in Florida Rights Restoration Case Is 'Unfortunate, but not Insurmountable, Setback'

July 16, 2020

WASHINGTON - Today, the Supreme Court denied an application to vacate stay in Raysor v. DeSantis - litigation challenging Florida's modern-day poll tax. The case will move forward at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the...

SPLC Action Fund Urges Defense Secretary Mark Esper to Remove Confederate Symbols from its Installations Around the World

July 16, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s four-page memo that calls for expanded diversity within the military, but omits any...

SPLC Action Fund Urges Defense Secretary Mark Esper to Remove Confederate Symbols from its Installations Around the World

July 16, 2020

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Sebastian Gorka’s nomination to the National Security Education Board

July 15, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below after the White House announced the appointment of Sebastian Gorka — a right-wing media figure who injects Islamophobia...

SPLC Publishes Extremist File for White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller

July 15, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released a new Extremist File on Stephen Miller , White House senior adviser and far-right extremist, who has been influential in shaping the Trump administration’s...

SPLC Whose Heritage? Dataset Updates as of July 14, 2020

July 14, 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...

SPLC: Tomorrow, Alabama Holds Elections without Public Health Safeguards amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

July 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama will hold primary runoff elections statewide tomorrow, Tuesday, July 14. The following statement is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Tomorrow, as the state...

SPLC Action Fund Calls for Montgomery Public Schools to Rename Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Sidney Lanier High Schools

July 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Tuesday night, July 14, during a board meeting of the Montgomery Public Schools, a group of alumni, students and community members will call on members to eliminate Confederate iconography and rename...

PFPS Statement on Trump Administration’s Announcement of Push to Fund Private Schools

July 10, 2020

WASHINGTON — Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS), a campaign of SPLC Action Fund, Education Law Center, and Munger, Tolles & Olson, issued the statement below following recent announcements that the Trump administration plans...

After 28th person dies from COVID-19 in Florida prisons, Florida CCJR calls again for action from state officials

July 10, 2020

Tallahassee, Fla.- As Florida officials continue resisting efforts to significantly reduce the prison population and have been slow to publicly reveal their plans for handling a coronavirus outbreak in prisons, the 28th person...

SPLC: Saturday’s Louisiana Election 'Needlessly Exposes People to COVID-19'

July 10, 2020

NEW ORLEANS - Tomorrow, Louisiana will hold a statewide presidential preference primary and municipal primary election. The following statement is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center : “...

PFPS Applauds States Suing to Strike Down Secretary DeVos’ Illegal CARES Act Rule

July 08, 2020

WASHINGTON — Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) commends the Attorneys General of several states for filing a lawsuit yesterday to block the Trump Administration’s attempt to divert critically needed emergency federal funds from...

SPLC: Rise of One America News Network’s Jack Posobiec Tied to White Supremacist Movement

July 08, 2020

Posobiec has been praised by President Trump ATLANTA — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch today released the first two installments of an investigative series into the background of One America News Network (OANN) host...

SPLC: Settlement Confirms Exploitation of Workers Targeted by ICE

July 08, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Julia Solórzano, staff attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the settlement which forces an East Tennessee...

SPLC Whose Heritage Dataset Updates as of July 7, 2020

July 07, 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...

Advocates Demand Alabama Protect Children in Sequel Facilities Across the State

July 06, 2020

(July 6, 2020 – Montgomery, Ala.) – Today children’s rights advocates sent a letter of concern urging leaders in Alabama to take sweeping and immediate action to protect foster youth placed in facilities operated by Sequel Youth...

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block on Asylum Transit Ban

July 06, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal appeals court has upheld a block on the Trump administration’s attempt to make individuals who traveled through a third country on the way to the United States before arriving at the southern border...

Groups Respond to SCOTUS Decision to Grant Stay Application in Alabama Voting Case

July 02, 2020

WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an emergency stay of a lower court injunction in People First of Alabama v. Merrill. Four justices noted in writing they would deny the application for stay...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to President Trump Threatening to Veto the Department of Defense Authorization Bill

July 01, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to President Trump’s tweet threatening to veto the Department of Defense Authorization bill if it includes the amendment...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Florida’s E-Verify Expansion

July 01, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday signed into law Senate Bill 664, an expansion of Florida’s E-Verify policy. The new law requires Florida’s public employers, including municipalities, local governments, and any...

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