March 31, 2021
LOUISIANA – A new report released today by Daughters Beyond Incarceration and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) offers a roadmap for stakeholders appointed earlier this year to serve on a council within the Louisiana...
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March 30, 2021
ATLANTA — Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia’s sweeping new law that makes it much harder for all Georgians to vote, particularly voters of color, new citizens, and religious communities. The...
March 29, 2021
NEW ORLEANS -- Arguing that Orleans Parish Assessor Errol Williams should not be supporting corporate welfare, and that everyone deserves equitable and lawful property assessments, two Orleans Parish residents have sued Williams...
March 24, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The following statement is from Efrén Olivares, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project. “Recent national discourse around immigration has largely ignored the...
March 23, 2021
ATLANTA -- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed suit against the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) in the Fulton County Superior Court after the agency failed to comply with the state’s open records act. The SPLC is...
March 17, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Following the horrific events of last night in the Atlanta-area, Margaret Huang, President & CEO of Southern Poverty Law Center , released the following statement: “Our hearts and prayers go out to the...
March 17, 2021
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – City commissioners in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, voted tonight on a proclamation declaring March 21, 2021, as Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Day and Westminster Academy Day in the City of Fort Lauderdale...
March 16, 2021
FLORIDA – The excessive use of Florida’s mental health law, known as the Baker Act, has resulted in the inappropriate and illegal psychiatric hospitalization of thousands of Black and Brown children and children with disabilities...
March 12, 2021
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A federal court last night granted civil rights organizations’ motion to appoint a special master, or independent third party, that will ensure the federal government’s compliance with an injunction in the...
March 10, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A landmark report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) found that the election systems in the Deep South in 2020 suffered from an array of shortcomings, making it harder for many voters – particularly...
March 09, 2021
MIAMI -- The First Amendment Foundation, ACLU of Florida and the Southern Poverty Law Center have filed an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in the case Human Rights Defense Center v. Armor Correctional Health Services Inc...
March 04, 2021
LOUISIANA – Today, the Council on the Children of Incarcerated Parents and Caregivers will host their first-ever meeting to examine the needs of children in Louisiana whose parents or caregivers are in jail or prison. A law...
March 02, 2021
WASHINGTON – A new report and exclusive video released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch exposes multimillionaire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has built an extensive business appealing to former...
February 26, 2021
ATLANTA – A national group of medical experts is calling on top immigration officials to immediately release the hundreds of people who remain detained in a South Georgia detention facility amid reports of new COVID-19 outbreaks...
February 25, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Lecia Brooks, chief of staff for the Southern Poverty Law Center, testified before the House Committee on Financial Services about how far-right extremists and white supremacists fund operations like the...
February 25, 2021
ATLANTA, Ga. – The Gwinnett County Superior Court has reversed the unlawful school expulsion of a 14-year-old Gwinnett County Public Schools student based on an off-campus misdemeanor charge in juvenile court in 2019 that was...
February 25, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced the beginning of a new application process in its Vote Your Voice initiative that will make more than $10 million in grants available to Deep South...
February 23, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released the 2020 year-end update to its Whose Heritage? report data and map, which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. The Whose...
February 23, 2021
MIAMI – The Biden-Harris administration is reportedly planning to reopen the Homestead detention center to detain unaccompanied migrant children. The detention center was last used in August of 2019 before closing, following...
February 23, 2021
WASHINGTON – An anti-immigrant extremist with ties to the white nationalist movement is presently advising Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), according to a new report published in Hatewatch. Julia Hahn, a former Trump aide with a long...
February 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) yesterday issued a memo establishing interim guidance on the scope of interior enforcement activity for the next 90 days. The following statement is from Laura...
February 16, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third country en route to the United States, with very...
February 16, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new analysis – titled “ How an Encrypted Messaging Platform is Changing Extremist Movements .” The report details how extremist groups are migrating to...
February 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration today announced the first phase of its plan to wind down the "Remain in Mexico" policy. On February 19, the United States will begin processing people who have already been enrolled in...
February 10, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Civil Rights Memorial Center is partnering with New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander to produce a community poem for a new exhibit that will be featured at the Center when it reopens later this...
