MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee adopting an amendment which will allow the Pentagon to remove the names of...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the SPLC Action Fund, and comes in response to testimony by Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to President Trump’s tweets about how his administration will not change the names of 10 U.S. Army bases that are...
Washington, DC. — SPLC Action President and CEO Margaret Huang released the below statement ahead of today’s U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement: “Our nation’s policing system...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Interim Deputy Legal Director for LGBTQ Rights & Special Litigation Scott McCoy released the following statement after the Jacksonville City Council voted to preserve...
Read SPLC's report "Whose Heritage: Public Symbols of the Confederacy." MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sent letters to the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the...
ATLANTA - The following statement on reports of problems in Georgia's in-person primary elections is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Georgia’s in-person primary elections are turning...
Montgomery, Alabama -- COVID-19 cases are continuing to rise in Alabama. But despite that fact, state leaders are going forward with a plan to reopen the state. To accomplish a successful recovery Alabamians must have confidence...
ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced today that it reached a $300,000 settlement with Wayne Farms, one of the nation’s biggest poultry producers, on behalf of three people with disabilities who alleged...
Montgomery, Alabama -- Today, members of Congress unveiled a new police reform bill — The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 — that would ban chokeholds like the one that killed George Floyd, end the use of no-knock warrants in drug...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement after the U.S. Marine Corps announced it is banning the Confederate battle flag — including on bumper stickers, mugs and T-shirts...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang released the following statement after the Trump campaign sent an email to his “fiercest and most loyal defenders” calling on them to join...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The SPLC Action Fund's Lecia Brooks released the statement below after the removal of the Adm. Raphael Semmes statue, which was vandalized during protests in Mobile this week. The Semmes statue has stood in...
MONTGOMERY — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joins social justice organizations and millions of people from across the country in a National Day of Mourning to grieve the lives of Black people killed by police and...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — As the recent string of murders of unarmed Black people lays bare a system of oppression that touches the lives of so many members of the LGBTQ community, a new initiative is being launched this Pride Month to...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Southern Poverty Law Center Action President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang released the statement below regarding tear gas and flash grenades being used against peaceful protesters Monday before...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — On May 14, 2020, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joined the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and other civil liberties groups to call for the removal of headstones bearing swastikas on the graves of...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Monday night, the Confederate Sailors & Soldiers Monument was removed from Linn Park in Birmingham, Ala. The following statement is from Lecia Brooks, spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “...
WASHINGTON, D.C – The following statement is from Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project , following DHS’s activation of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Margaret Huang, president and chief executive officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, issued the below statement following the recent string of killings of Black people across the country: “The SPLC joins...
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Innovation Law Lab (Law Lab), Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project and Santa Fe Dreamers Project released the following statement in...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement on Twitter's fact check of the president's tweets on vote-by-mail is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “We’re thankful to see Twitter is...
COLUMBUS, Ga. – Santiago Baten-Oxlaj, a 34-year-old Guatemalan man, became the second known person to die from COVID-19 under the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Baten-Oxlaj was detained at Stewart Detention...
Click here for information on whether you can vote in Florida if you have a past felony conviction. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In a significant decision for voting rights, a federal court on Sunday affirmed voting rights for hundreds of...
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – This week, the Georgia Board of Education (GBOE) ruled that a Gwinnett County student barred from school since mid-November was wrongly expelled after finding no evidence the student violated the district’s...