Nashville, Tenn., March 2 – Public school parents and community members in Nashville and Memphis today filed suit in the Chancery Court for Davidson County challenging the Tennessee Education Savings Account (ESA) voucher law as...

ATLANTA – The U.S Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today affirmed the denial of CoreCivic’s motion to dismiss a complaint, filed on behalf of a class of immigrants forced to work while detained at Stewart Detention...

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Interim President Karen Baynes-Dunning issued the following statement on the shooting at two German bars in Hanau: “The tragic shooting that took place in Hanau, Germany, Wednesday evening left nine...

On Tuesday, Freedom for Immigrants (FFI), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (Louisiana AID) filed two complaints with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Civil...

MONTGOMERY, Ala--“The court confirmed that this administration’s effort to ‘explode’ Medicaid by converting it from a health care access program to a work program is arbitrary and illegal. We hope the federal government and the...

SPLC Action Fund’s Interim President and CEO Karen Baynes-Dunning issued the below statement after Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced resolutions in the House of Representatives and the Senate...

Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) has launched an interactive tool to track bills that create or expand, as well as scale back, private school voucher programs in state legislatures across the country. The new legislative...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Despite Alabama’s historic role in the voting rights movement, it remains one of the most difficult states for an eligible voter to register and successfully cast a ballot, according to a report released today...

JACKSON, Mississippi — “Mississippi’s prisons have a brutal history rooted in slavery and convict leasing, and it is time for the federal government to step in and do what the Mississippi Department of Corrections has failed to:...

MONTOGMERY, Ala. – A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released today outlines recommendations to strengthen Alabama’s charter school law. The report defines public charter schools and describes how they operate in...

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA — Internationally renowned human and civil rights leader Margaret Huang has been hired as the new president and chief executive officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and SPLC Action Fund. She...

“Today’s ruling allows yet another discriminatory and xenophobic Trump administration policy aimed at low-income black and brown immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security’s ‘public charge’ rule only hurts families...