July 18, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Civil rights icon John Lewis, whose life’s work to combat racial injustice began in the segregated South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and original group of 13 Freedom Riders...
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July 17, 2020
Montgomery, Ala. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement on the passing of Civil Rights leader Reverend C.T. Vivian earlier this morning: “C.T. Vivian was a...
July 17, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – On Monday, July 20, the Black Empowerment Organization (BEO) and community members will call on the Neshoba County Board of Supervisors to eliminate symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces by removing...
July 16, 2020
PHOENIX – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman filed an amended federal lawsuit today adding four additional migrant families to the filing who were separated from their...
July 16, 2020
WASHINGTON - Today, the Supreme Court denied an application to vacate stay in Raysor v. DeSantis - litigation challenging Florida's modern-day poll tax. The case will move forward at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the...
July 16, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s four-page memo that calls for expanded diversity within the military, but omits any...
July 16, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s four-page memo that calls for expanded diversity within the military, but omits any...
July 15, 2020
WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below after the White House announced the appointment of Sebastian Gorka — a right-wing media figure who injects Islamophobia...
July 15, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released a new Extremist File on Stephen Miller , White House senior adviser and far-right extremist, who has been influential in shaping the Trump administration’s...
July 14, 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...
July 13, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama will hold primary runoff elections statewide tomorrow, Tuesday, July 14. The following statement is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Tomorrow, as the state...
July 13, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Tuesday night, July 14, during a board meeting of the Montgomery Public Schools, a group of alumni, students and community members will call on members to eliminate Confederate iconography and rename...
July 10, 2020
WASHINGTON — Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS), a campaign of SPLC Action Fund, Education Law Center, and Munger, Tolles & Olson, issued the statement below following recent announcements that the Trump administration plans...
July 10, 2020
Tallahassee, Fla.- As Florida officials continue resisting efforts to significantly reduce the prison population and have been slow to publicly reveal their plans for handling a coronavirus outbreak in prisons, the 28th person...
July 10, 2020
NEW ORLEANS - Tomorrow, Louisiana will hold a statewide presidential preference primary and municipal primary election. The following statement is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center : “...
July 08, 2020
WASHINGTON — Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) commends the Attorneys General of several states for filing a lawsuit yesterday to block the Trump Administration’s attempt to divert critically needed emergency federal funds from...
July 08, 2020
Posobiec has been praised by President Trump ATLANTA — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch today released the first two installments of an investigative series into the background of One America News Network (OANN) host...
July 08, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Julia Solórzano, staff attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the settlement which forces an East Tennessee...
July 07, 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...
July 06, 2020
(July 6, 2020 – Montgomery, Ala.) – Today children’s rights advocates sent a letter of concern urging leaders in Alabama to take sweeping and immediate action to protect foster youth placed in facilities operated by Sequel Youth...
July 06, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal appeals court has upheld a block on the Trump administration’s attempt to make individuals who traveled through a third country on the way to the United States before arriving at the southern border...
July 02, 2020
WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an emergency stay of a lower court injunction in People First of Alabama v. Merrill. Four justices noted in writing they would deny the application for stay...
July 01, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to President Trump’s tweet threatening to veto the Department of Defense Authorization bill if it includes the amendment...
July 01, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday signed into law Senate Bill 664, an expansion of Florida’s E-Verify policy. The new law requires Florida’s public employers, including municipalities, local governments, and any...
July 01, 2020
ATLANTA — Today, advocates from eight student rights and education advocacy organizations sent a letter to Georgia officials urging proactive and equitable measures to address the challenges that the COVID-19 crisis has had and...
