February 20, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The number of hate groups operating across America rose to a record high – 1,020 – in 2018 as President Trump continued to fan the flames of white resentment over immigration and the country’s changing...
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February 20, 2019
NEW ORLEANS – Representing a Louisiana public defender, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana and the Southern Poverty Law Center today filed suit against the City of New Orleans over its refusal to provide a map of the...
February 19, 2019
NEW YORK, Friday, February 22, 2019 – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Latin GRAMMY-winning band Flor De Toloache have launched a song – hitting airwaves today – that aims to help prevent human rights abuses by...
February 15, 2019
JACKSON, Miss. – On Wednesday, February 13, a federal district court in Mississippi granted class certification for the Plaintiffs in Hopkins v. Hosemann , a case seeking to reinstate voting rights for Mississippi citizens...
February 14, 2019
Statement of Mary Bauer, Deputy Legal Director, the Southern Poverty Law Center on the Emergency Declaration from Trump: "The notion that this manufactured crisis is a national emergency is ridiculous. The only national emergency...
February 12, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement, in response to Governor Kay Ivey’s prison construction plan, is by Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “We greet Governor Ivey’s announcement...
February 11, 2019
JACKSON, Miss. – The SPLC Action Fund today released a new television advertisement to highlight the harms caused by Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban on individuals convicted of disqualifying offenses. In the advertisement...
February 08, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – This statement by Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is in response to a Friday evening press release by the Alabama Department of Corrections and Commissioner Jeff Dunn: “As the Court...
February 08, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – After the thirteenth apparent suicide of people under the care of Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) in fourteen months on Wednesday, victims’ families, their attorney, and representatives from the...
February 05, 2019
JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippians impacted by the state’s unjust and outdated lifetime voting ban met at the Capitol with lawmakers today to urge the state legislature to swiftly take up and pass SB 2508, a bill that would restore...
January 30, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement is from Ebony Howard, senior supervising attorney for SPLC Action Fund: “Commissioner Dunn’s proposed hiring of 500 new corrections officers in the second half of Fiscal Year 2020 is a...
January 25, 2019
The Southern Poverty Law Center has been challenging Trump's asylum policies in the courts, including getting a federal judge to temporarily block the policy of denying asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border between...
January 22, 2019
The Florida Senate and House Education Committees today heard recommendations from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission. The following statement is by Bacardi Jackson, managing attorney for the SPLC...
January 18, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Menstruation is one of society’s most stigmatized topics but educators can help dispel the shame associated with this natural biological process and improve gender parity by not only providing access to free...
January 15, 2019
WASHINGTON – More than a dozen Kentuckians enrolled in Medicaid re-filed their lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging its re-approval of work requirements and unreasonable premiums to Kentucky’s Medicaid program...
January 15, 2019
The following statement is by Rhonda Brownstein, Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Striking a blow to the defenders of the “Lost Cause,” a judge has struck down an Alabama law that prevented the removal of...
January 11, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Emboldened by President Trump’s rhetoric, white supremacist groups have increased their distribution of flyers and banners in public spaces across the country, spreading racist and antisemitic propaganda and...
December 13, 2018
Congress today passed the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018, which strengthens and reauthorizes the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Among the provisions aimed at protecting justice-involved youth, the...
December 13, 2018
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice released new data this week that shows a 20 percent drop from the previous year in the number of juveniles who have been transferred to adult court. A total of 904...
December 12, 2018
Florida State Sen. Perry Thurston, D-Fort Lauderdale, filed legislation this week that seeks to establish a more diverse judiciary in the state by reforming its judicial nomination process. The following statement is by Scott...
December 06, 2018
Florida Governor-Elect Ron DeSantis confirmed today that he has asked Richard Corcoran, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, to be the state Commissioner of Education. The following statement is by Scott McCoy...
February 01, 2018
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Schools are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a...
