March 08, 2022
MONTGOMERY – The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined an appeal by Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) and its founders Arthur Goldberg and Elaine Berk, the conversion therapy providers who were barred from...
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March 04, 2022
MIAMI – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Anne Janet Hernandez Anderson, a Senior Supervising Attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, regarding the late-night passage of SB1808...
February 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 280 immigrants’ and human rights organizations today delivered a letter to the Biden Administration calling for an immediate designation of temporary protected status (TPS) for Cameroon, in light of...
February 25, 2022
Montgomery, Ala. —The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement on President Biden’s historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the next Justice of the...
February 25, 2022
Atlanta, GA (February 25, 2022) — Across the region, Southerners are ringing the alarm about persistent attacks on communities of color during the redistricting process. In Georgia, state lawmakers stand out for their egregious...
February 23, 2022
Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman held in a men’s prison in Georgia, continued her legal battle for protection from the ongoing sexual abuse she endures, by renewing her request last night for a federal court to order her...
February 22, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On February 15, Kelvin Silva, a 45-year-old North Carolina resident, was deported to the Dominican Republic by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under an outdated and discriminatory immigration...
February 17, 2022
Tallahassee, FL – The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) held a hearing Thursday afternoon to get feedback on a proposed rule change that would make it difficult to impossible for incarcerated people to speak with lawyers...
February 10, 2022
ATLANTA – The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced that the first Lynn Walker Huntley Social Justice Fellowship has been awarded to Harvard Law School student Harry Chiu. The...
February 10, 2022
ATLANTA – Today the Georgia State Senate passed new maps for the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners with a new, predominantly White voting-age population district. The current Gwinnett County Commission is comprised entirely...
February 04, 2022
MONTGOMERY – Margaret Huang, the President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), released the following statement in response to recent developments around bomb threats to several of our nation’s Historically Black...
February 04, 2022
ATLANTA – Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement regarding Folkston Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Processing...
February 02, 2022
Yesterday, a groundhog honoring two Confederate generals received widespread recognition for his weather predictions. February 1 is also the first day of Black History Month. The following statement is from Lecia Brooks, SPLC...
February 01, 2022
MONTGOMERY — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released the third edition of its Whose Heritage? report , data, and map , which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. Click here to view the...
January 31, 2022
MIAMI, FL – January 31, 2022 Today, three transgender people, Gabriela Amaya Cruz, Christian Pallidine, and Ángel Jae Torres Bucci, filed suit in federal court against Miami-Dade County for abuse they suffered while in county...
January 26, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement in response to the recent comments made by Department of Homeland...
January 24, 2022
MIAMI – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Anne Janet Hernandez Anderson, a Senior Supervising Attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, on the proposed SB1808 legislation ahead of...
January 20, 2022
ATLANTA – Today, following the introduction of bills to redistrict county government bodies across many of Georgia’s 159 counties, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Walden Macht & Haran LLP sent letters to each state...
January 20, 2022
OCALA, Fla. — The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, and Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Neville Christopher Brooks, a legal permanent...
January 20, 2022
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Civil Rights Corps (CRC) have informed judges, the sheriff, public defender, and other officials in Knox County that efforts to reform the County’s pretrial practices...
January 19, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate failed to overcome the 50-vote threshold to change the body's rules and permit a vote on essential voting rights protections after each senator has been allowed a maximum of two speeches...
January 11, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Civil Rights Memorial Center ( CRMC ) is set to reopen on Thursday, unveiling new exhibits and updates designed to enhance visitors’ understanding of the civil rights movement and the ongoing struggle for...
January 07, 2022
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – Amidst an alarming surge in COVID cases within the past week due to the omicron variant, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is urging the Cobb County School Distict to act in the best interest of students...
January 07, 2022
ATLANTA – Voting rights groups and Georgia voters filed a lawsuit in federal court today charging that the 6th, 13th, and 14th Congressional Districts of Georgia violate the U.S. Constitution and unlawfully diminish the voting...
January 06, 2022
MONTGOMERY, AL – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement on the first anniversary of the deadly January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol to overturn the nation’s...
