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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 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...

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 Response to Deadly Overnight Shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin

August 26, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the statement below after a 17-year-old male individual was arrested for the alleged shooting that killed two and injured another in...

SPLC statement on Jacob Blake shooting

August 25, 2020

KENOSHA, Wis. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the below statement following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot multiple times by Kenosha, Wis., police at close range on Sunday. He...

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RNC caves to hate groups in attack against the SPLC

August 24, 2020

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SPLC Responds to RNC Resolution

August 23, 2020

WASHINGTON — Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the statement below following the Republican National Committee's approval of a resolution challenging SPLC’s identification and condemnation of...

SPLC Statement on Trayford Pellerin Killing

August 22, 2020

LAFAYETTE, La. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement following the killing of Trayford Pellerin, a 31-year-old Black man, who was shot by Lafayette police...

SPLC Action Fund Calls on Congress to Act to Prevent Postal Service Disruptions

August 18, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the statement below after Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi asked Members of the House of Representatives to come back from recess to...

SPLC’s Margaret Huang on Charlottesville Anniv.: 'Hate is alive and flourishing in the United States.'

August 12, 2020

WASHINGTON — Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the below statement on the third anniversary of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event drew hundreds of peaceful...

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