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SPLC Hosts Virtual Convening on Exposing Anti-Blackness Among the Far Right Movement

October 07, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is hosting a free, three-part virtual convening about the challenges facing Black communities amid a rising and increasingly violent white nationalist movement. The series...

SPLC Investigation Finds American White Nationalist Group Tied to Kremlin Advocate with “Shady” Funding

October 06, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — An investigation published by Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch today found that the influential U.S. white nationalist group The Right Stuff (TRS) has significant links to Charles Bausman, a notorious...

Teaching Tolerance Releases “The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors,” a New Classroom Film About Indigenous Enslavement for Grades 6-12

October 06, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Teaching Tolerance pro-ject has released a new classroom film, “The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors,” to help in-troduce students in grades 6-12 to the history of...

SPLC Awards Over $4.5M in Second Round of Grants in Vote Your Voice Initiative

October 05, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced a second round Vote Your Voice grants to 28 additional voter outreach organizations across the Deep South as part of its voter mobilization initiative...

SPLC Action: With Momentum of Resolution 1153, Congress Must Honor the Calls from Women Inside ICDC

October 02, 2020

WASHINGTON – Today, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1153, condemning unwanted, unnecessary medical procedures on individuals without their full, informed consent at Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in...

Federal Court Rules Alabama Must Take Steps to Better Protect Voters During COVID-19 Pandemic

September 30, 2020

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal court issued a decision today that will help protect the health and right to vote of medically vulnerable Alabamians. The ruling in People First of Alabama v. Merrill means Alabama voters will not...

SPLC Action Fund Urges Swift Passage of Protecting Our Students in Schools Act

September 30, 2020

NATIONAL – The Protecting Our Students in Schools Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives today by Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-District 4) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-District 1). If passed, the...

DeVos Quits Fight Over COVID-19 Aid to Private Schools After Court Blocks Illegal Education Department Rule

September 28, 2020

Plaintiffs in NAACP v. DeVos reached an important and final victory on September 25 when U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos notified state education officials that she will not appeal court rulings invalidating a U.S...

SPLC Action Fund on U.S. Supreme Court Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett

September 26, 2020

WASHINGTON — This evening President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. The nomination comes a week...

SPLC can move forward with the claim that private probation company violated the constitutional rights of people in Gardendale, Alabama, federal appellate court rules

September 25, 2020

ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that a previously dismissed lawsuit must be reinstated, providing the Southern Poverty Law Center the opportunity to further litigate its claim that a private probation...

SPLC Action: Following Resolution, Congress Must Shut Down ICE Facilities, Including Irwin County Detention Center

September 25, 2020

WASHINGTON – Today, Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Annie Kuster (NH-02), Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) and Lois Frankel (FL-21) led 172 members of Congress in introducing a House Resolution...

SPLC Statement on Proud Boys Rally in Portland, Ore.

September 25, 2020

Portland, Ore. — On Saturday, September 26, the Proud Boys , self-described ‘western chauvinists,’ will hold a rally at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon. Over the past three years, the group has hosted and promoted rallies in...

Southern Poverty Law Center denounces lack of justice in Breonna Taylor case

September 23, 2020

LOUISVILLE , KY -- Earlier today a Jefferson County grand jury declined to bring any charges against three white police officers for the deadly shooting of Breonna Taylor, a Black 26-year-old emergency medical technician. One...

SPLC Action: Chad Wolf Serves Trump’s Agenda, Not the Public’s

September 23, 2020

WASHINGTON – Today, Acting Department of Homeland (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee for his official confirmation hearing. Wolf has been unlawfully serving...

New SPLC Analysis: Mass Parole Denials in Alabama Amid Pandemic

September 22, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Nearly 200 of the 1,100 people older than 65 in Alabama prisons are eligible for parole but have not been released despite the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)...

Governor DeSantis' Proposal Would Criminalize Protest and Dissent

September 21, 2020

Tallahassee, FL — Earlier today Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for a new law, the “combating violence, disorder and looting law enforcement act” to be passed during the 2021 general session that would put people at risk of...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Rev. Robert S. Graetz Jr.

September 21, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. – The Rev. Robert S. Graetz Jr., an unflinching advocate for civil rights and the only white clergyman to publicly support the Montgomery Bus Boycott, passed from complications related to Parkinson’s disease on...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

September 18, 2020

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an epic figure in American history and a champion of women’s rights and reproductive justice, passed from complications related to pancreatic cancer on Friday. She was...

SPLC: FDC and ICE Entanglement Undermines Community Trust and Public Safety

September 18, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) entered a Memorandum of Agreement to implement the 287(g) program, which allows for the formal coordination...

New SPLC Polls Finds Overwhelming Support for Anti-Racism Education

September 17, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, as President Donald Trump doubles down on his attack on schools using the 1619 Project with the announcement of the “1776 Commission,” and his recent orders to federal agencies to end anti-racism training in...

New Issue of Teaching Tolerance Magazine Examines Role of Students and Teachers in Shaping Democracy, Countering Youth Voter Suppression

September 17, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Even though voter turnout among young people during the 2018 U.S. midterm election was the highest it had been in decades, only about 35 percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in the...

SPLC and SPLC Action Fund Release Priorities Agenda for Next Presidential Term

September 16, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the SPLC Action Fund released Vision for a Just Future , an joint action agenda of priorities and recommendations for executive and federal agency action, for...

SPLC Whose Heritage? Dataset Updates as of September 15, 2020

September 15, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released an update to its Whose Heritage? report which tracks symbols of the Confederacy on public land across the United States: Total number of Confederate symbols...

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: Federal Appeals Court Decision in Florida Voting Rights Case "Completely Contrary to the Words and Spirit of our Constitution"

September 11, 2020

ATLANTA - The following statement regarding today's U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit decision in Jones v. Florida is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: "With mere days before...

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