Days before Donald Trump takes office as the 45th president of the United States, hundreds of students across America offered advice to the president-elect as part of an initiative by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project.
Today is a very special day – a time for us to not only pay tribute to one of our nation’s greatest leaders but to reflect upon and recommit ourselves to the ideals that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. championed.
The day after the presidential inauguration, thousands are expected to converge on the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington.
A federal judge on Thursday entered an order requiring the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) to immediately take actions to protect suicidal prisoners – an order sparked by the SPLC after a client died by suicide in a prison cell days after testifying in court about the state’s failure to provide adequate mental health care to prisoners.
The following statement is from Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The SPLC today filed an amicus brief in support of a federal judge’s decision to temporarily block a Mississippi law allowing business owners and government workers to refuse service to LGBT people.
The SPLC asked a federal judge today to force the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) to take immediate action to protect suicidal prisoners – an action that comes after a prisoner represented by the SPLC was found dead in his cell from suicide 10 days after testifying in federal court about the state’s failure to provide adequate mental health care to prisoners.
An Alabama poultry processing plant has been fined almost $30,000 for unsafe work conditions found by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after the Southern Poverty Law Center filed an administrative complaint that described how the company ignored – and even fired – workers who complained about the conditions.
The following statement is from Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The following statement is from Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, in response to Roy Moore’s appeal regarding his suspension.
