March 23, 2024
MONTGOMERY — Today at 5:00 p.m. , the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), will lay a wreath honoring civil rights martyr Johnnie Mae Chappell. Johnnie Mae Chappell , a...
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March 14, 2024
JACKSON, Miss. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reflects on the legacy of civil rights activist Dorie Ladner, a pillar in the movement for social justice in Mississippi. “Dorie Ladner is an icon in the Civil Rights...
March 06, 2024
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (DOJ) announced a settlement agreement with the Pasco County School District last night to end discrimination against students with disabilities in...
March 04, 2024
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After the discovery that voters in Alabama’s newly formed majority-Black congressional district received erroneous information, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement. Over...
February 23, 2024
MONTGOMERY — On Friday, March 1 at 1:00 p.m. , the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Alabama State Office open Jubilee weekend with its annual wreath laying...
February 22, 2024
FLORIDA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new statewide survey that shows most Floridians believe that a quality K-12 public education is a right, and that Florida should invest more in educating young...
February 22, 2024
MONTGOMERY — On Friday, February 23, at 6:00 p.m. , Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Alabama State Office will honor Selma, Alabama native Sheyann Webb-Christburg...
February 16, 2024
MOBILE — On Wednesday, February 21, at 10:00 a.m. , the Alabama State Office , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is excited to partner with the League of Women Voters , and the Mobile County NAACP for the 2024...
February 15, 2024
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced the launch of the Race and Redistricting Expert Project (RREP), an initiative designed to build a robust pipeline of experts in mapping, statistics, and...
February 13, 2024
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – In the first federal lawsuit challenging classroom censorship policies in Georgia, educators are suing the Cobb County School District for discrimination after fifth-grade gifted specialist Katie Rinderle was...
February 13, 2024
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC) released a new report on the disturbing state of Alabama’s youth legal system, which for years has overly criminalized Black youth, pushing them out of school...
February 06, 2024
On Thursday, February 8, at 5:00 p.m. , the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Moral Courage Project will host critically acclaimed poet, peace activist, author, and...
February 06, 2024
WASHINGTON — Today, Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University released qualitative findings...
January 29, 2024
ATLANTA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new report that sheds light on the cruel practice of criminalizing homelessness at a time in which over 10,000 Georgians are reported to be experiencing...
January 26, 2024
ENGLISH VERSION Montgomery, Ala. — Today, in response to a joint statement issued by 25 governors in support of Texas’ refusal to comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling on the state’s use of razor-wire barriers at the border, the...
January 24, 2024
ATLANTA — Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) sent a demand letter on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Housing Justice League (HJL) imploring the U.S...
January 22, 2024
The plaintiffs in Finn v. Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration , a case challenging the constitutionality of the district map for the Cobb County Board of Education, filed an emergency motion yesterday asking the 11th...
January 19, 2024
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In a significant win for Tennessee public school students and families, the Tennessee Court of Appeals last week reversed a lower court decision that dismissed a lawsuit challenging the state’s education...
December 21, 2023
WASHINGTON AND MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Yesterday, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), along with the pro bono law firm Crowell Moring LLP, jointly filed an amicus brief in...
December 15, 2023
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — In a win for Black and Latinx voters, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia blocked the Cobb County School Board from using its racially gerrymandered map in an upcoming election because...
December 13, 2023
TALLAHASSEE — Today, three Florida educators filed a lawsuit challenging Florida Statute § 1000.071(3) (2023) (“Subsection 3”), an anti-LGBTQ+ statute that targets Florida’s transgender and nonbinary teachers for being themselves...
December 12, 2023
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a sweeping new report that details how pseudoscience has become a tool of the far right to manipulate public opinion and advance legislation and legal...
December 07, 2023
ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) closed today on a 2.5-acre parcel at 871 Wheeler St. in Atlanta’s Westside English Avenue neighborhood that will be the future home of the SPLC’s Atlanta office. The Montgomery,...
November 30, 2023
MONTGOMERY — This week, Standing In Power (S.I.P.), in partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Alabama State Office , raised two billboards demanding justice for the death of Steve Perkins , who was senselessly killed...
November 30, 2023
ORLANDO, Fla. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a c omplaint challenging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell, claiming the suspension rejects the will of the voters who...
