May 20, 2022
NEW YORK – Today, the Fort Hamilton Army Base renamed a street honoring a Confederate leader. In 2020, the National Defense Authorization Act established a Naming Commission within the Department of Defense, which provides “...
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May 18, 2022
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – The Georgia Board of Education has reversed a decision by the Cobb County Board of Education to expel a Black Campbell High School student in violation of his due process rights. The student, who is referred to...
May 16, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement responding to this weekend’s attack at a grocery store where 10 people were killed by an 18-year-old white...
May 12, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C . – A new report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch provides an inside look at Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes , as told by his three adult children. In an exclusive interview...
May 04, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new investigative report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch reveals that an anonymous donor has donated more than $2 million U.S. dollars in Bitcoin to Alex Jones over the...
May 03, 2022
Jacksonville, Fla. — Today the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida , Harvard Election Law Clinic , and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Jacksonville NAACP Branch , the Northside...
April 28, 2022
ATLANTA, Ga. – The ACLU of Georgia ( ACLU-GA ), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Intercultural Development Research Association ( IDRA ) are joining to support educators, students and parents in Georgia as they...
April 27, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, 10 civil and immigrants’ rights organizations filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) calling for an investigation of the Houston...
April 26, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Caren Short, senior supervising attorney for Voting Rights with the Southern Poverty Law Center and Michelle Kanter Cohen, policy director and senior counsel with Fair Elections Center, released the following...
April 25, 2022
Greenville, Miss.—April 25, 2022 —Mississippi civic leaders today challenged state Supreme Court district lines that have gone unchanged for more than 35 years because those lines dilute the voting strength of Black residents in...
April 25, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – While several southern states have respectfully moved away from observing Confederate Memorial Day, Alabama and Mississippi will continue the tradition today. On Tuesday, April 26, Florida will also celebrate...
April 22, 2022
JACKSON, Miss . -- This week the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced the launch of its new Advocacy Institute , a training ground for emerging activists and advocates across the state who are interested in advancing...
April 20, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a public records request with the Florida Department of Education this week seeking all records relat ed to their recent rejection of 54 math textbooks that they...
April 15, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rose Murray, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI) of the Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement responding to today’s...
April 15, 2022
JACKSON, MS.- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Mississippi State Director Waikinya Clanton released the following statement condemning Governor Tate Reeves proclamation of Confederate Heritage Month. “Despite every effort...
April 12, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), unveiled the Blank Slate Monument, created by Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo , to the Alabama community earlier...
April 08, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, a jury acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, two of the four hard-right militia extremists charged in the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. The jury was deadlocked...
April 07, 2022
Montgomery, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement on today’s historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th Associate Justice of the U...
April 01, 2022
ATLANTA – Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement in response to the announcement by the Department of Homeland Security (...
March 31, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today a federal court sided with Harriett Tubman Freedom Fighters (HTFF) in HTFF v. Laurel Lee , ruling that Florida’s S.B. 90 infringed on its right to free speech when the state forced the organization to...
March 29, 2022
OWENSBORO, Ky. – Yesterday afternoon, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) raised a billboard in support of the Owensboro NAACP Branch 3107, whose advocacy led the Daviess County Fiscal Court to unanimously vote to remove its...
March 28, 2022
ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) responded to the announcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that they will be closing the infamous Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Ala., and limiting the...
March 24, 2022
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – After a years-long fight, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) client and renowned journalist Manuel Duran has won his asylum case. Duran was arrested in April 2018 while covering a Memphis protest focused on...
March 23, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, FL -- On Tuesday, the Jacksonville City Council voted to pass new Council and School Board maps that dilute Black voting power and further divide communities. The Council map packs more than half of the city’s Black...
March 09, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021 report released today: hate and antigovernment extremism have gone mainstream, infecting the national and political...
