August 30, 2020
NEW ORLEANS – Families of loved ones detained at Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro, Louisiana and LaSalle Correctional Center in Olla, Louisiana, two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) migrant prisons...
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August 30, 2020
Montgomery, Ala. — A Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch investigation found that Ryan Balch, a 31-year-old Wisconsin man who says he “inserted “ himself with an alleged gunman and a contingent of militia conducting armed...
August 28, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Sylvester Hartley, a named plaintiff in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) longstanding Braggs v. Dunn lawsuit challenging the inadequate health care provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections,...
August 27, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. – A lawsuit filed in federal court today against Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson and Attorney General Lynn Fitch challenges the constitutionality of the state’s absentee ballot requirements, including...
August 27, 2020
NEW ORLEANS – As Hurricane Laura barreled through Louisiana, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) never shared any emergency plans detailing how the agency would ensure the safety of the hundreds of immigrants in its custody...
August 26, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the statement below after a 17-year-old male individual was arrested for the alleged shooting that killed two and injured another in...
August 26, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC – Following the peaceful protest of Black asylum seekers held at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Pine Prairie, Louisiana, the Cameroonian American Council (CAC), Freedom for Immigrants, ISLA Immigration...
August 25, 2020
KENOSHA, Wis. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the below statement following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot multiple times by Kenosha, Wis., police at close range on Sunday. He...
August 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the statement below following the Republican National Committee's approval of a resolution challenging SPLC’s identification and condemnation of...
August 22, 2020
LAFAYETTE, La. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement following the killing of Trayford Pellerin, a 31-year-old Black man, who was shot by Lafayette police...
August 20, 2020
ATLANTA – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a notice of appeal on behalf of a 14-year-old Gwinnett County, Georgia, student permanently expelled after he was accused of a misdemeanor off-campus last fall. The...
August 18, 2020
ATLANTA — A federal appeals court hearing in a case that may enable hundreds of thousands of Floridians to register to vote in time for the November election concluded today after two hours of oral argument. The case concerns...
August 18, 2020
WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the statement below after Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi asked Members of the House of Representatives to come back from recess to...
August 17, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “The...
August 17, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The following statement about tomorrow's primary elections in Florida is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the SPLC Action Fund: "Tomorrow, Florida will needlessly conduct a statewide election during a...
August 13, 2020
NEW ORLEANS – On Monday, August 17, during a court hearing in Lafayette, Louisiana, Move the Mindset (MTM) and community members will call on the 15th Judicial District Court to nullify a permanent injunction which prevents the...
August 12, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a rule that imposes unlawful conditions on federal emergency aid for public schools have asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to grant a preliminary...
August 12, 2020
WASHINGTON — Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the below statement on the third anniversary of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event drew hundreds of peaceful...
August 11, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released an update to its Whose Heritage? report which tracks symbols of the Confederacy on public land across the United States: Total number of Confederate symbols...
August 11, 2020
Chapter One Focuses on a Woman Who Was a Member of a Hate Group and Worked Behind the Scenes to Support the “Unite the Right” Rally MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched its first original podcast —...
August 07, 2020
ATLANTA – Attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Perkins Coie LLP, Project South and the Law Office of Andrew R. Free today filed a motion to dismiss CoreCivic’s counterclaim against the plaintiffs in the forced...
August 07, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – One year ago today armed agents set upon workers at poultry plants in Mississippi, arresting more than 600 immigrants and terrorizing them, their families, and their communities. This raid occurred just days...
August 06, 2020
SAN DIEGO— A federal judge has granted class certification in Al Otro Lado v. Wolf, a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of turning back asylum seekers at ports of entry. The ruling provides that the challenge...
August 06, 2020
DALLAS, Ga. – This week, a Georgia school district suspended two students for sharing a photo of their school environment in a viral social media post critical of the school’s reopening plans amid the pandemic. The photos showed...
August 06, 2020
El Dorado, Ark. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of migrant workers who have faced rampant wage theft by a major farm labor contractor, Lowry Farms, Inc. The guest workers...
