November 10, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville City Council voted to ignore their community’s plea to remove the Confederate monument in Springfield Park. The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “We are...
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November 09, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center launched “Fostering Hate,” the third episode from season three of its latest Sounds Like Hate podcast series . The stories you will hear corroborate that discrimination...
November 05, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Last week, three Jacksonville City Council committees voted to leave the Women of the Southland monument standing in Springfield Park. This decision followed Mayor Lenny Curry’s promise to remove all of...
November 04, 2021
Los Angeles, CA – Six asylum seekers subjected to the “Remain in Mexico” policy are seeking an emergency order from a federal court allowing them to return to the United States to pursue their claims for asylum and related relief...
November 02, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) new season of its Sounds Like Hate podcast series features a new host: author, journalist and educator Yvonne Latty. Next week, the latest episode, which tackles the...
October 29, 2021
NEW ORLEANS – More than six years after a federal judge entered a consent judgment to remedy systemic discrimination of students with disabilities in New Orleans’s decentralized public school system, the Southern Poverty Law...
October 28, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Sarah Rich, senior supervising attorney with the Immigrant Justice Project, in response to the new Department of Homeland Security memo...
October 28, 2021
ATLANTA – Through the “ Postcolonial Karma ” exhibit, artist Lisa Tuttle speaks to today’s issues of gender, race and class while stirring conversation about the true meaning behind the idols and images that define the...
October 27, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement reflecting on the third anniversary of the white nationalist attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue. “Today...
October 27, 2021
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The federal judge presiding over the case of G.H. v. Tamayo, a statewide challenge to the Department of Juvenile Justice’s use of solitary confinement, has ruled that the case can proceed as a class action...
October 26, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched the first episode in the third season of its Sounds Like Hate podcast series today. Through personal stories of individual voters and activists, this premiere...
October 22, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director for the Immigrant Justice Project, in response to reports that Texas National Guard troops...
October 21, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Southern states’ failure to prioritize public education has an outsized impact on students of color and students living in or near poverty, a new study released today by Education Law Center (ELC) and the...
October 21, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Innovation Law Lab (Law Lab) released the following statement in response to the Department of Justice’s decision to end Trump-era case completion quotas for immigration...
October 21, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As educators grapple with the latest attempt s to shift the historical narrative about race in classroom lessons , Learning for Justice released a new episode this week on its Teaching Hard History podcast to...
October 21, 2021
Montgomery, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Ben Salk, Senior Staff Attorney, following the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to reverse a federal judge’s April 2020 order ,...
October 19, 2021
ATLANTA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit yesterday ruled against Rosemary McCoy and Sheila Singleton, clients in the McCoy v. DeSantis lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that challenges...
October 15, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the Biden administration’s plan to...
October 15, 2021
ATLANTA – T oday, the U.S . District Court for the Northern District of Georgia denied a request for emergency relief t hat would require the Cobb County School District to follow guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and...
October 14, 2021
ROME, Ga. – Several Black students at Coosa High School are facing suspension for planning a protest in response to fellow classmates who waved a Confederate flag and yelled racial slurs on school property last week. Although...
October 13, 2021
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a non-government organization (NGO) that acts as a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, announced it is releasing a Request for Proposal (RFP) today seeking partners for a...
October 13, 2021
October 13, 2021, New York ‒ Civil rights organizations today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit demanding information about the U.S. government’s wrongful deportation of asylum seekers to Cameroon, where a civil...
October 13, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In conjunction with today’s House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing, “ Domestic Violent Extremist Groups and the Recruitment of Veterans ,” the Southern Poverty Law Center released a searing inside look at the...
October 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Meredith Stewart, senior supervising attorney with the Immigrant Justice Project, in response to the new Department of Homeland Security...
October 01, 2021
ATLANTA – The Cobb County School District’s failure to implement and enforce recommended safety protocols to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in it s schools unlawfully den ies students with disabilities access to a safe , in-person...
