MONTGOMERY, AL – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today named Board member Karen Baynes-Dunning interim President and CEO effective immediately. Baynes-Dunning has served on the SPLC Board of Directors since October 2017...

“Given the lengths to which federal agencies have gone to defend and cover up their treatment of immigrant children, there is absolutely no way Congress should give the Department of Homeland Security more authority, especially...

MOBILE, Ala. - Today, the Alabama Voting Rights Project, new voters Rodney Lofton and Rachel Whitley, and Mobile community leaders spoke to the achievements across the state in voting rights restoration and the importance of...

WASHINGTON – A federal judge ruled against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ approval of Medicaid waiver projects in Kentucky and Arkansas that include work mandates and other cuts to coverage. This marks the...

“Today the Supreme Court dealt another blow to immigrant’s rights by ruling that certain immigrants are not entitled to bond hearings. This decision is a setback to everyone’s liberty and due process rights.” “Our nation’s harsh...

“The atrocity in New Zealand shows us, once again, that we’re dealing with an international terrorist movement linked by a dangerous white supremacist ideology that’s metastasizing in the echo chambers of internet chat rooms and...

The Florida Senate Education Committee today voted 8-0 to approve Senate Bill 62, which would regulate use of restraints for children at school. The following statement is by Bacardi Jackson, senior supervising attorney for the...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s budget proposal to convert Medicaid into a system of block grants is by Sam Brooke, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “We...

“Recently, there have been a number of incredibly alarming incidents where our partners at Al Otro Lado (AOL), a binational legal services organization that serves refugees and other migrants in Tijuana and California, have been...

The following statement is from Heidi Beirich, Director of the Intelligence Project for SPLC Action Fund. "At a time when cities all over the country are actively removing Confederate symbols from public spaces, it is...

Today, the Alabama District Attorneys Association announced the Alabama Forfeiture Accountability system, a voluntary data collection process for law enforcement to report on civil asset forfeiture in Alabama. The following...