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Cobb County Voters File Emergency Motion in Lawsuit Challenging Cobb County School Board Map

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...

Tennessee Appellate Court Rules Parents and Community Members Can Challenge State’s Private School Voucher Law

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...

SAVE THE DATE: “Ghosts of a Lost Cause” Screening in the “Friendliest Town in America” on MLK Day

January 08, 2024

MURRAY, Ky. — On Monday, January 15, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Murray State University will host a screening of “ Ghosts of a Lost Cause ,” which explores the connection between history, memory, and belonging, sparking conversations and...

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, SPLC File Brief in Support of Grant Program for Black-Owned Businesses

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...

Georgia Court Blocks Racially Gerrymandered Cobb County School Board Map

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...

Teachers Sue to Block Florida’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Pronoun Ban

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...

SPLC Report Exposes Network Behind Junk Science and Disinformation Campaign Against the LGBTQ+ Community

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...

The Southern Poverty Law Center Closes on Site of Future Campus on Atlanta’s Westside

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,...

Standing In Power and the Decatur Community Demand Justice for Steve Perkins

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...

SPLC Challenges Florida Governor’s Suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell

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...

Groups Threaten Suit over Charlotte County Public Schools’ LGBTQ+ Book Ban Policy

November 29, 2023

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sent a demand letter today on behalf of All Rainbow and Allied Youth (ARAY) and PFLAG Port Charlotte urging the School Board of Charlotte County and Superintendent...

Learning for Justice Releases Curriculum Framework for Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

November 15, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. —Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice (LFJ) program released a new curriculum framework to help educators, parents and caregivers teach high school-age students about Black Americans’...

Karen Baynes-Dunning Elected as Chair of the SPLC Board of Directors

November 07, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced that Karen Baynes-Dunning was elected by the SPLC Board of Directors as chair of the board. Baynes-Dunning, who first joined the board in October 2017,...

Judge Rules in Favor of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Paving the Way for Lawsuit to Continue   

November 06, 2023

ORLANDO, Fla. — Judge Vincent Falcone III issued a decision in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community v. The School Board of Orange County, Florida. The litigation by the...

Federal Court Rules Family Separation Lawsuit Against U.S. Government Will Proceed to Trial

October 25, 2023

PHOENIX — Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona ruled that the federal government does not have immunity under federal tort law for claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence in...

Advocates Continue Push for Federal Investigation of Education in Louisiana’s Juvenile Justice System

October 24, 2023

WASHINGTON — Today, youth and civil rights advocates renewed their request for the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to investigate Louisiana’s repeated failure to provide general and special education for...

CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AND COBB COUNTY VOTERS SEEK INJUNCTION TO RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY MAP

October 24, 2023

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), ACLU of Georgia, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) and Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP...

SPLC and the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Announce Recipients of Vote Your Voice Field Strengthening Grants

October 23, 2023

ATLANTA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta (Foundation) announce 68 organizations selected to receive grants through the Vote Your Voice initiative. These grants,...

Settlement In Forced Labor Case Against Private Prison Company Operating Immigration Detention Center

October 19, 2023

ATLANTA — This week the parties reached a settlement in a forced labor case against CoreCivic, Inc. (CoreCivic), the private prison company that operates Stewart Detention Center (Stewart) in Lumpkin, GA, for U.S. Immigration and...

Groups Find Police Presence in Schools Contributes to Sexual Violence

October 18, 2023

(OCTOBER 18, 2023) – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Advancement Project, Alliance for Educational Justice, the National Women’s Law Center, the In Our Names Network, and Interrupting Criminalization hosted a...

SPLC Files Appeal for Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock Community Over Unlawful Rezoning Amendment

October 18, 2023

SAPELO ISLAND, Ga. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , in partnership with Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP , filed an appeal in the Superior Court of McIntosh County on behalf of residents of Hogg Hummock, citing an...

SPLC Mourns Death of Leonard Cure, Renews Call for Reimagining of Policing in America

October 18, 2023

ATLANTA — Leonard Cure, a 53-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a police officer in Camden County, Ga. on Monday. In 2020, Mr. Cure was exonerated after being incarcerated for nearly two decades in Florida. “Our hearts...

Common Cause Georgia, League of Women Voters, SPLC Applaud Court’s Decision to Move Redistricting Case Forward

October 17, 2023

ATLANTA — A three-judge panel for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is allowing a case challenging Georgia’s racially gerrymandered congressional district map to move forward. The case, brought by...

Vermilion NAACP, SPLC Sue to Block Abbeville’s Malapportioned Map

October 17, 2023

ABBEVILLE, La. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit today on behalf of the Vermilion Parish NAACP to block the Abbeville City Council-approved redistricting map that denies equal representation to voters, in...

SPLC Calls for Better Data and More Prevention Initiatives to Address Historic Level of Hate Crimes

October 16, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, following the release of the FBI 2022 Hate Crime Statistics Act report , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) once again called for action by Congress to expand prevention efforts and make hate crime...

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