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Teaching Tolerance Releases New Classroom Film and Lessons for Grades 6-12

July 23, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Monday, July 27, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Teaching Tolerance project will release its latest classroom film, “Bibi” – a story told about the intersection of family, identity and belonging...

SPLC Action Fund Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Support for Congress to Pass Additional COVID-19 Relief

July 23, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, SPLC Action Fund released a poll showing that eight out of every 10 voters — across party lines — in Florida, Georgia and Louisiana strongly support Congress providing additional coronavirus relief and...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to House Vote to Remove Confederate Symbols from the U.S. Capitol

July 22, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the U.S. House of Representatives approval of H.R.7573 , 305-113, legislation which directs the Architect of the...

SPLC Action Fund on Passing of NO BAN Act in U.S. House of Representatives

July 22, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below following the passing of the NO BAN Act in the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 233-183. The Act is designed...

DeVos Sued by Public School Parents, NAACP, and School Districts to Block Illegal Rule That Diverts Critical COVID-19 Aid from Public Schools to Private Schools

July 22, 2020

NATIONAL – A rule issued by the U.S. Department of Education this month coerces school districts to use an illegal process to inflate the amount of federal COVID-19 aid they must share with private schools. The rule will...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to U.S. House of Representatives Approval of the National Defense Authorization Act

July 21, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the bipartisan U.S. House of Representatives approval of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), 295-125,...

SPLC Action Fund: Trump’s Census Memo is Unlawful and Harmful

July 21, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below after President Trump issued a memo ordering the U.S. Census Bureau to exclude undocumented immigrants living in the...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to DHS Collecting Personal Information on People Deemed “Threatening” to Confederate Monuments

July 21, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to guidance aligned with President Trump’s executive order , which allows collection of personal information and...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to Neshoba Co. Board of Supervisors Decision to Keep Confederate Monument

July 20, 2020

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – Today, the Neshoba County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to keep the Confederate monument located in front of the courthouse despite pleas from the community to remove it. The following statement is from...

SPLC Action Fund Urges Congress to Pass NO BAN Act

July 20, 2020

WASHINGTON — Today, in a letter to all Members of Congress , SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang urged representatives to support the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants...

In Win for Alabama Voters, State Extends Emergency Absentee Voting Through November Elections

July 20, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Friday, July 17, 2020, Alabama’s Secretary of State announced that emergency absentee voting would continue through the November 3, 2020, elections. The announcement is a massive win in the fight for...

SPLC Analysis: Racial disparities apparent as hundreds denied parole in Alabama in June

July 20, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Hundreds of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons were denied parole in June, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) analysis published today. SPLC reviewed 452 parole hearings in June and found...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis

July 18, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose life’s work to combat racial injustice began in the segregated South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and original group of 13 Freedom Riders...

SPLC Statement on the Passing of Rev. C.T. Vivian

July 17, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement on the passing of Civil Rights leader Reverend C.T. Vivian earlier this morning: “C.T. Vivian was a...

SPLC Action Fund Calls for Immediate Removal of Mississippi Confederate Monument

July 17, 2020

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – On Monday, July 20, the Black Empowerment Organization (BEO) and community members will call on the Neshoba County Board of Supervisors to eliminate symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces by removing...

Federal Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Traumatized Migrant Families Torn Apart by Trump Administration’s Separation Policy

July 16, 2020

PHOENIX – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman filed an amended federal lawsuit today adding four additional migrant families to the filing who were separated from their...

SPLC: SCOTUS Decision in Florida Rights Restoration Case Is 'Unfortunate, but not Insurmountable, Setback'

July 16, 2020

WASHINGTON - Today, the Supreme Court denied an application to vacate stay in Raysor v. DeSantis - litigation challenging Florida's modern-day poll tax. The case will move forward at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the...

SPLC Action Fund Urges Defense Secretary Mark Esper to Remove Confederate Symbols from its Installations Around the World

July 16, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s four-page memo that calls for expanded diversity within the military, but omits any...

SPLC Action Fund Urges Defense Secretary Mark Esper to Remove Confederate Symbols from its Installations Around the World

July 16, 2020

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Sebastian Gorka’s nomination to the National Security Education Board

July 15, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below after the White House announced the appointment of Sebastian Gorka — a right-wing media figure who injects Islamophobia...

SPLC Publishes Extremist File for White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller

July 15, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released a new Extremist File on Stephen Miller , White House senior adviser and far-right extremist, who has been influential in shaping the Trump administration’s...

SPLC Whose Heritage? Dataset Updates as of July 14, 2020

July 14, 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...

SPLC: Tomorrow, Alabama Holds Elections without Public Health Safeguards amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

July 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama will hold primary runoff elections statewide tomorrow, Tuesday, July 14. The following statement is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Tomorrow, as the state...

SPLC Action Fund Calls for Montgomery Public Schools to Rename Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Sidney Lanier High Schools

July 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Tuesday night, July 14, during a board meeting of the Montgomery Public Schools, a group of alumni, students and community members will call on members to eliminate Confederate iconography and rename...

PFPS Statement on Trump Administration’s Announcement of Push to Fund Private Schools

July 10, 2020

WASHINGTON — Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS), a campaign of SPLC Action Fund, Education Law Center, and Munger, Tolles & Olson, issued the statement below following recent announcements that the Trump administration plans...

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