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SPLC Announces 'We Vote! Mississippi' to Drive Up Registration and Turnout in Mississippi 2019 Elections

September 19, 2019

JACKSON, Miss. – Ahead of the pivotal 2019 statewide Mississippi elections in November, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced a non-partisan, grassroots voter engagement project called We Vote! Mississippi, which...

In Victory for Motorists and Taxpayers, Mississippi Sheriff’s Office Will Stop Acting as Immigration Enforcement

September 18, 2019

HANCOCK COUNTY, MS –– The sheriff’s office in Hancock County, Mississippi, has adopted new policies to ensure that its deputies do not racially profile motorists or act as federal immigration agents, the result of a settlement...

Teaching Tolerance Examines Suicide Rate Among Young, Black Children

September 17, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The suicide rate among young, black students has steadily increased in the past few years but schools can help mitigate outcomes by connecting students to critical mental health services, as well as addressing...

SPLC, Education Law Center Launch New Campaign to Fight Vouchers, Protect Public Education

September 10, 2019

Education Law Center (ELC), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the SPLC Action Fund have joined forces on a nationwide campaign to fight private school vouchers and ensure public funds are dedicated to educating the...

SPLC Intelligence Report: Unmasking Shadowy Extremists in the Fight Against Hate

September 10, 2019

Using fake names and fictional avatars, people devoted to hate and extremism exude courage and commitment to their causes online. But that changes when the world learns their real names. In the latest issue of the Southern...

SPLC Statement on Urgent Need to Suspend Visa Requirements in Aftermath of Hurricane Dorian

September 10, 2019

MIAMI – Southern Poverty Law Center Senior Supervising Attorney Paul Chavez , with the SPLC Immigrant Justice Project, issued the following statement on the urgent need for the United States to suspend visa requirements for...

Federal Court Reinstates Full Block on Trump Asylum Ban

September 09, 2019

OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal court has reinstated a nationwide injunction blocking a Trump administration asylum ban that denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third country en route to the...

SPLC and ACLU Win Preliminary Injunction to Restore Access to Parole to Asylum-Seekers Detained Indefinitely Across Deep South

September 05, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE)...

New Lawsuit Challenges Use of Solitary Confinement for Children in Florida

September 05, 2019

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. --Citing scientific, medical and mental health evidence likening solitary confinement to torture and demonstrating its dangers to the development and rehabilitation of children, the Southern Poverty Law Center (...

Separated Families Seek Damages for Harm Suffered Due to Trump Administration Policy

August 30, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two fathers who were forcibly separated from their young children by immigration officials have filed administrative claims against the United States to seek compensation for the lasting harm caused by the...

SPLC: Indefinite Detention of Migrant Children Cannot Stand

August 21, 2019

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, in response to a new Trump administration rule that...

Civil Rights Groups Charge that ICE Disregards Immigrants’ Medical, Mental Health Needs and Ignores Discrimination Against Immigrants with Disabilities

August 19, 2019

Los Angeles — A nationwide class action lawsuit was filed against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and others acting in their official capacities. The lawsuit,...

SPLC Special Report: Alabama’s Flawed Community Corrections Program Prioritizes Money Over Safety

August 15, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s community corrections pay-to-play model prioritizes making money over rehabilitation or public safety, according to a special investigative report the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published...

SPLC statement on Trump proposal allowing discrimination by federal contractors

August 14, 2019

Southern Poverty Law Center Deputy Legal Director David Dinielli issued the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s decision to propose a rule that would allow federal contractors to discriminate based on...

SPLC Project Expands Framework for Teaching American Slavery to K-5 Students

August 13, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As part of an effort to improve classroom lessons about American slavery and the important role it played in shaping the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project has released...

SPLC: Trump administration ‘public charge' rule purposefully cruel, punishes those most in need

August 12, 2019

The Federal Register today published a new Trump regulation known as the public charge rule that targets legal immigrants who rely on public programs, such as food stamps and government-subsidized housing. The following statement...

SPLC: Two Years After Charlottesville, White Supremacy Must be Stopped

August 12, 2019

On August 12, 2017, the nation witnessed the horrific scene after a neo-Nazi sped his car into a group of peaceful counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person, Heather Heyer, and injuring dozens of others...

Federal Judge Adopts Magistrate Judge’s Recommendation That Neo-Nazi Must Pay More Than $14M to Jewish Woman Targeted in Harassment Campaign

August 08, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen today adopted a federal magistrate judge’s recommendation that Andrew Anglin, publisher of a major neo-Nazi website, must pay more than $14 million in damages to Tanya...

SPLC, Co-Counsel Statements on Mississippi Voter Re-Enfranchisement Case

August 08, 2019

JACKSON, Miss. – On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, the United States District Court Southern District of Mississippi issued a ruling in Hopkins v. Hosemann. The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with the law firm Simpson Thacher...

SPLC Statement on Mississippi Immigration Raids

August 07, 2019

Southern Poverty Law Center Attorney Julia Solórzano , with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, issued the following statement on today's workplace raids in Mississippi: “Today’s raids are part of the ongoing war against...

SPLC El Paso Statement: Trump’s Rhetoric Continues to Fuel Hate

August 04, 2019

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich issued the below statement on the impact of President Trump’s racially-driven rhetoric following the shooting Saturday in El Paso, Texas: “By describing...

SPLC Statement on Shooting in El Paso, Texas

August 03, 2019

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich issued the following statement regarding the mass shooting today in El Paso, Texas: “The tragedy in El Paso today has become a scene so common that it's no...

SPLC Joins Other Civil Rights Organizations to Protect Voting Rights

August 03, 2019

On Friday, the SPLC joined other civil rights organization with pending litigation challenging the constitutionality of Florida Senate Bill 7066 in filing a motion for preliminary injunction . If granted, the motion would prevent...

Alabama Civil Rights Groups and Montgomery Pride United Seek Public Records on Pride Weekend Police Raids of Bars and Restaurants

August 01, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Three Alabama civil rights groups and Montgomery Pride United filed a public records request with three government agencies yesterday, seeking to determine why LGBTQ-friendly bars and restaurants in the city...

SPLC: Trump Perpetuates Myth of Voter Fraud, Calls for Voter ID Aimed to Suppress Turnout

July 30, 2019

President Donald Trump today tweeted that “we should immediately pass Voter ID.” The following statement is from Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center : “Just days after referring to a majority-...

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