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New Season of Sounds Like Hate 2 Podcast Forces Reckoning With Confederate Symbols in the South

May 24, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In the second season of the Sounds Like Hate podcast, debuting May 26, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) shifts its focus to the South, as activists in Alabama, Georgia and Texas bring renewed energy and...

SPLC to Duval County School Board: Follow the Community’s Lead

May 21, 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Recently, the Duval County Public Schools’ Renaming Canvassing Board counted all votes. The results confirm that the Jacksonville community is ready to leave the Confederacy behind by renaming all of schools...

Anti-Confederate Billboard Urges Duval County School Board to Rename Schools Lionizing Confederates and Colonizers

May 17, 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In observance of the 67-year anniversary of the unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a new billboard in support of the Jacksonville community and grassroots...

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Losing the ‘Lost Cause’: SPLC launches billboard campaign to educate communities on false narrative behind Confederate History Month

May 14, 2021

Liz Vinson

Confederate removal billboard campaign, may, 2021

Alamance County Anti-Confederate Billboard Asks Residents to Choose Love Over Hate

May 11, 2021

GRAHAM, N.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center raised a new billboard in support of the North Carolina Commission on Racial & Ethnic Disparities (NC CRED), which supports groups like Alamance Alliance 4 Justice, the Alamance...

SPLC Kicks Off 2021 Confederate Billboard Campaign in Alabama

April 27, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center launched its 2021 Confederate Billboard campaign in Florence, Alabama. In 2017, local advocacy group Project Say Something initially appealed for contextualization of the...

SPLC Looks Forward to Stone Mountain Park Changes; Urges Community to Stay Engaged

April 27, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Stone Mountain Memorial Association held its first meeting under the new leadership of Rev. Abraham Mosley, the first African American to lead the state’s authority in its 60-year history, to discuss future...

SPLC Condemns the Observance of Confederate Memorial Day

April 26, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “Since Reconstruction, Confederate symbols have been used by white supremacists as tools of racial terror. The United Daughters of the...

Features and Stories

Stone Mountain: Monument’s racist history must be acknowledged for community to heal

April 19, 2021

Kimberly Probolus

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

April 01, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Today, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the city of Charlottesville can remove its statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the focal point for the Unite the Right rally in 2017, from public display...

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