WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement applauding today’s jury ruling that the “Unite the Right” organizers of the far-right rally in...
MONTGOMERY, AL – Today, a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for the murders of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and the attempted murder of Gaige Grosskreutz. Rittenhouse was one of many armed civilians who came out to the...
Montgomery, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is celebrating 50 years of advocacy with a virtual, livestreamed event, “SPLC 50th Anniversary Celebration,” to be held Thursday, Nov. 18 at 7:00 p.m. CT/8:00 p.m. ET. “The...
MOBILE, Ala. - Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) urged in a letter the Mayor and City Council of Mobile, Alabama, to consider their “affirmative obligation” under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) in...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center launched part two of “Fostering Hate,” the fourth episode of the new season of the Sounds Like Hate podcast, which reports on the overt discrimination and hate allowed to...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a pair of lawsuits in federal court challenging Alabama’s newly drawn political maps for state legislative and congressional districts...
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Law Office of Allison B. Vrolijk and Goodmark Law Firm filed a notice of appeal of the Court’s decision last month denying Cobb County students with disabilities...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville City Council voted to ignore their community’s plea to remove the Confederate monument in Springfield Park. The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “We are...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center launched “Fostering Hate,” the third episode from season three of its latest Sounds Like Hate podcast series . The stories you will hear corroborate that discrimination...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Last week, three Jacksonville City Council committees voted to leave the Women of the Southland monument standing in Springfield Park. This decision followed Mayor Lenny Curry’s promise to remove all of...
Los Angeles, CA – Six asylum seekers subjected to the “Remain in Mexico” policy are seeking an emergency order from a federal court allowing them to return to the United States to pursue their claims for asylum and related relief...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) new season of its Sounds Like Hate podcast series features a new host: author, journalist and educator Yvonne Latty. Next week, the latest episode, which tackles the...
NEW ORLEANS – More than six years after a federal judge entered a consent judgment to remedy systemic discrimination of students with disabilities in New Orleans’s decentralized public school system, the Southern Poverty Law...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Sarah Rich, senior supervising attorney with the Immigrant Justice Project, in response to the new Department of Homeland Security memo...
ATLANTA – Through the “ Postcolonial Karma ” exhibit, artist Lisa Tuttle speaks to today’s issues of gender, race and class while stirring conversation about the true meaning behind the idols and images that define the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement reflecting on the third anniversary of the white nationalist attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue. “Today...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The federal judge presiding over the case of G.H. v. Tamayo, a statewide challenge to the Department of Juvenile Justice’s use of solitary confinement, has ruled that the case can proceed as a class action...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched the first episode in the third season of its Sounds Like Hate podcast series today. Through personal stories of individual voters and activists, this premiere...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director for the Immigrant Justice Project, in response to reports that Texas National Guard troops...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Southern states’ failure to prioritize public education has an outsized impact on students of color and students living in or near poverty, a new study released today by Education Law Center (ELC) and the...
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Innovation Law Lab (Law Lab) released the following statement in response to the Department of Justice’s decision to end Trump-era case completion quotas for immigration...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As educators grapple with the latest attempt s to shift the historical narrative about race in classroom lessons , Learning for Justice released a new episode this week on its Teaching Hard History podcast to...
Montgomery, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Ben Salk, Senior Staff Attorney, following the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to reverse a federal judge’s April 2020 order ,...
ATLANTA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit yesterday ruled against Rosemary McCoy and Sheila Singleton, clients in the McCoy v. DeSantis lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that challenges...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the Biden administration’s plan to...