ATLANTA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit yesterday ruled against Rosemary McCoy and Sheila Singleton, clients in the McCoy v. DeSantis lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that challenges...

ATLANTA – T oday, the U.S . District Court for the Northern District of Georgia denied a request for emergency relief t hat would require the Cobb County School District to follow guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and...

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a non-government organization (NGO) that acts as a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, announced it is releasing a Request for Proposal (RFP) today seeking partners for a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In conjunction with today’s House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing, “ Domestic Violent Extremist Groups and the Recruitment of Veterans ,” the Southern Poverty Law Center released a searing inside look at the...

ATLANTA – The Cobb County School District’s failure to implement and enforce recommended safety protocols to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in it s schools unlawfully den ies students with disabilities access to a safe , in-person...

MIAMI – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by AJ Hernandez Anderson, a senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project responding to Gov. DeSantis’ latest Executive Order...

JACKSON, Miss. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) refutes Governor Tate Reeves’ attempts at downplaying the impact of COVID-19 in Mississippi, as the state recently ranked the highest per capita in the nation of COVID-...

ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and two Atlanta area law firms are demanding the Cobb County School District immediately implement COVID-19 safety protocols in their schools to protect the rights of students with...

NEW ORLEANS – Today, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear en banc oral arguments in Harness v. Watson to review an earlier three-judge decision regarding a legal challenge of Mississippi’s lifetime...

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...

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...

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...