March 06, 2023
ATLANTA – The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued statements in response to the arrest of a legal observer on Sunday, March 5 in Atlanta: NLG “Law enforcement detained at least 35...
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March 06, 2023
ATLANTA – Today, Public Funds Public Schools – a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Education Law Center (ELC) – released a new report documenting the massive increase in public spending on private education...
February 27, 2023
CHATTANOOGA, TN — On Feb. 27, a federal judge approved a final settlement in a class action lawsuit challenging an April 2018 workplace immigration raid at a meat processing plant in East Tennessee. The settlement provides over $...
February 24, 2023
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon denied, in part, a request by the School District of Palm Beach County to dismiss a case challenging the use of involuntary psychiatric examination of...
February 24, 2023
VALLEY, Ala. — Charges of failure to pay solid waste fees were dropped against Nortasha Jackson after she was arrested for falling $85 behind on her trash bill. In their motion to dismiss her charges, Southern Poverty Law Center...
February 22, 2023
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — On Friday, March 3 at 3:00 p.m. , the Civil Rights Memorial Center , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), will honor the late Congressman John R. Lewis and civil rights martyrs during a wreath-...
February 21, 2023
ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Erin Argueta, senior lead attorney for the SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI) , in response to the Biden administration’s...
February 16, 2023
ATLANTA — The Cobb County School District will revise their policies and procedures for special education services after a five-year-old student diagnosed with Down Syndrome and a chronic feeding disorder was denied services, the...
February 15, 2023
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched a new brand identity that builds on its legacy of fighting in the courts for justice and charts its course as a catalyst for people-powered, transformative...
February 09, 2023
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement from Tafeni English-Relf , director of the Alabama State Office and the Civil Rights Memorial Center , in response to the American Bar...
February 08, 2023
EATONVILLE, Fla. — On Tuesday, Feb. 7 , the Town Council of Eatonville, Florida, voted against land use changes that would clear the way for the development of the historic Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School Property (...
February 07, 2023
TALLADEGA, Ala. – Today, t he Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) named Tafeni English-Relf as the first director of its Alabama State Office (ALSO). This office will focus on local concerns, specifically in rural communities. “...
February 06, 2023
ATLANTA – U.S. government officials expressed racist attitudes toward Black migrants, treated their deportation as sport, and dismissed reports of abuse, internal documents obtained by advocacy and activist groups through a...
February 03, 2023
FLORIDA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement from Bacardi Jackson, interim deputy legal director for the Children’s Rights Practice Group, in response to the College Board’s final framework for...
February 01, 2023
WASHINGTON — A new series of investigative reporting released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch offers a glimpse into the life of extremist entrepreneur Alex Jones and the destructive business he...
January 30, 2023
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement in response to the killing of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, by police in Memphis, Tennessee: “The...
January 19, 2023
MACON — In response to Ms. Diamond’s decision to forgo a trial, attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: “Ashley Diamond has decided that a lengthy...
January 13, 2023
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released new guidance on how immigrant workers involved in labor disputes can seek deferred action and employment authorization from the agency. The announcement follows...
January 11, 2023
NEW ORLEANS — In 2022, as we marked 20 years of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the ACLU of Louisiana and immigrants’ rights coalition partners — National Immigration Project (NIPNLG), Robert F. Kennedy Human...
January 06, 2023
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement on the second anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol: “Two years ago, far-right...
January 05, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Efrén C. Olivares , deputy legal director for the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project , in response to President Joe Biden’s plans to extend...
December 27, 2022
WASHINGTON — Today, President Biden signed S. 5229 , requiring the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to replace the bust of the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in the U.S. Capitol with one honoring the...
December 23, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement in response to the release of the final report from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6,...
December 20, 2022
ATLANTA – On Friday, Dec. 16, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court’s decision denying a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order that would have allowed students with disabilities...
December 19, 2022
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center released the following statement from Rebecca Cassler, senior staff attorney for the Immigrant Justice Project , in response to a decision today by the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend...
