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SPLC Applauds Virginia Supreme Court Ruling to Allow Removal of Monument Avenue Confederate Statue

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...

BREAKING: Court Says Turnbacks of Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers Are Unlawful

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...

SPLC Calls for Concerted Action as FBI Hate Crime Report Documents Highest Numbers Since 2008

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...

Exclusive Reporting: Far-Right Propagandist with Russian Ties Disappears after Jan 6.

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...

Immigrant Rights Advocates Urge Court to Permanently End Trump-Era Policy that Turned Back Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers

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...

Report: Georgia Leads the Nation With 45 Public Schools Named After Confederate Leaders

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...

Tia T. Gordon Joins Southern Poverty Law Center as Chief Communications Officer

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...

Judge finds laws criminalizing panhandling to be unconstitutional

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...

SPLC Responds to Increasing COVID-19 Rates in Cobb County Schools

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...

SPLC: Our Fight For Rights of Asylum Seekers Continues Despite Supreme Court's Ruling on “Remain in Mexico"

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...

Advocates Decry Biden Administration’s Appeal Fighting Order to Vaccinate Medically Vulnerable People in ICE Detention

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...

SPLC: ICE Must Finally Close Irwin Detention Center

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...

Families, FL NAACP Sue to Have Florida Health Department Rule on School Mask Mandates Thrown Out

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...

SPLC Reports Reveal Current Conditions of Racial Discrimination in Voting in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi

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...

The Southern Poverty Law Center and community partners file amicus brief to support tenant rights in Georgia eviction lawsuit

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...

Rights Advocates Seek Relief for Thousands of Asylum Seekers Left Behind by Biden Administration Wind-down of Remain in Mexico Policy

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...

SPLC Challenges More Than 100 U.S. Schools Honoring Confederate Leaders to Change the Name

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...

SPLC’S MARGARET HUANG ON CHARLOTTESVILLE ANNIVERSARY: THE VIOLENT BEGINNING OF A NEW CHAPTER IN EFFORT TO MAINSTREAM WHITE NATIONALIST IDEAS

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...

As Census Data Drops, SPLC Calls on Georgia Legislators to End Sham Process and Meaningfully Include Georgians in Community Districting

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...

As Georgia Redistricting Hearings Conclude, Leaders Urge Government Transparency, Continued Opportunity For Public Input

August 09, 2021

ATLANTA - Today, in response to public hearings on the redistricting process in Georgia coming to a close before the Census Bureau has released relevant data, civil rights and progressive organizations urged elected leaders to...

Civil Rights Fellowship Program for Early-Career Lawyers Opens Application Period

August 09, 2021

August 9, 2021 (Atlanta, GA) ¾ The Lynn Walker Huntley Social Justice Fellowship, which will help early-career attorneys develop the skills and experience they need to advance education equity through research, policy analysis,...

Gainesville City Commission votes to file complaint against HB 1

August 06, 2021

GAINESVILLE, FL --Yesterday, the Gainesville City Commission voted to file a complaint against the Combating Violence, Disorder, and Looking and Law Enforcement Protection Act, also known as HB 1. Passed and signed into law in...

District Terminates Teacher Who Hung Black Lives Matter Flag

August 04, 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Students in Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) are returning to school next week, but Amy Donofrio, a 13-year, nationally recognized educator who was banned from her classroom at Robert E. Lee High School in...

SPLC Statement on Governor DeSantis’ Executive Order Blocking School Mask Mandates

August 02, 2021

FLORIDA – With millions of children across Florida set to return to school this month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Friday barring school districts from implementing face mask requirements for their...

SPLC to Gwinnett County’s New School Superintendent: Prioritize School Discipline Reform

July 30, 2021

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Today, the Gwinnett County Board of Education voted to name Calvin J. Watts as the new superintendent of Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS), Georgia’s largest and most diverse school district. He will...

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