ATLANTA, Ga. - Today, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee reversed his position and wants a change to the state law requiring a special day honoring Confederate General and KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest. The following statement...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Federal Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch issued a ruling today recommending that Andrew Anglin , publisher of a major neo-Nazi website, should pay more than $14 million in damages to Tanya Gersh , the Whitefish...

ATLANTA, Ga. - The following statement on Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in Tennessee is by Heidi Beirich, Director of the Intelligence Project : "Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has proclaimed Saturday as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in his...

GADSDEN, Ala. – After 465 days in detention, journalist Manuel Duran was released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention today. Duran, who was most recently held at the Etowah County Detention Center, will...

GADSDEN, Ala. – The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered detained journalist Manuel Duran’s case reopened, paving the way for an asylum claim and possible release after over 15 months in the custody of U.S. Immigration and...

MEDIA BRIEFING: Tuesday July 2, 10:00 A.M. ET , Plaintiff Rosemary McCoy and Southern Poverty Law Center Deputy Legal Director of Voting Rights Nancy Abudu will be available for comments. Please call: 929-477-0448. JACKSONVILLE,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Southern Poverty Law Center Deputy Legal Director Mary Bauer, who oversees the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, issued the following statement on the House approval of the Senate’s border supplemental bill: “...

ATLANTA, Ga – Southern Poverty Law Center Deputy Legal Director May Bauer, who oversees the Immigrant Justice Project, issued the below statement following news reports that President Trump has ordered ICE to conduct raids in a...

NEW ORLEANS – As the presence of law enforcement officers in schools continue to grow in Louisiana and nationally, school policing data is not being made readily available to Louisiana’s citizens as required by federal law,...

JACKSON, Miss. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will argue before the Mississippi Supreme Court to stop a funding scheme that diverts millions of local property tax dollars away from public schools and to privately...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Children attending the small percentage of the nation’s public schools that allow corporal punishment face a much greater likelihood of being struck than previously understood, with black students and students...

ATLANTA – Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Georgia filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s cash bail system that discriminates against people held in Georgia...