December 02, 2022
WASHINGTON – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP signed an Amicus Brief on behalf of tens of thousands of Mississippians urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that could...
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December 02, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Starting Monday, Dec. 5 the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), will offer visitors free admission in observance of the 67 th anniversary of the Montgomery...
December 01, 2022
MIAMI — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Leontire & Associates, P.C. and the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) of Harvard Law School filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...
December 01, 2022
ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Dechert LLP took renewed legal action today after the Cobb County...
December 01, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new investigative report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch reveals that an official in Illinois’ DuPage County Republican Party is a leader in a radical parent group,...
November 30, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement after the historic convictions of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and group member Kelly Meggs on seditious...
November 22, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State University Schools, Inc. (FSUS), a public K-12 charter school, rescinded their decision to involuntarily withdraw a 6-year-old Latino student for allegedly throwing a tantrum, according to a...
November 21, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Michael Edison Hayden, senior investigative reporter and spokesperson, Intelligence Project, after Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk,...
November 18, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Plaintiffs challenging Alabama’s SB 184 will urge the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to affirm the district court’s order barring enforcement of the law, which would criminalize doctors and...
November 17, 2022
WASHINGTON — Rebecca Cassler, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project , released the following statement in response to Tuesday’s decision by the U.S. District Court for the District...
November 16, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. and WASHINGTON (November 16, 2022) — At a moment in America when extremism is threatening grassroots democracy, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation...
November 14, 2022
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – Georgia Youth Justice Coalition and Gwinnett County students, caregivers, and educators, alongside partners Gwinnett SToPP, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Gwinnett County NAACP, released an open...
November 10, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala . – The Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will feature the Traveling While Black (TWB) project through January 22, 2023. Whether in their homes or on the...
November 07, 2022
ATLANTA – The Cobb County Superior Court issued an emergency ruling today to ensure that hundreds of Cobb County voters who had requested absentee ballots – but not yet received them – can still vote. As part of the ruling, the...
November 06, 2022
ATLANTA – The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Dechert LLP filed a lawsuit today seeking emergency relief so that...
November 04, 2022
WASHINGTON – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch released a new analysis today that documents how Newsweek’s opinion pages have embraced the radical right since Opinion Page Editor Josh Hammer took the reins in the...
November 04, 2022
GEORGIA – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), National Education Association (NEA) and Georgia Association of Educators (GAE) announced plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s classroom censorship law –...
November 01, 2022
Tallahassee, Fla. — Early today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) sent a letter to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asking him to pardon Floridians convicted of simple marijuana possession.The move would follow similar steps taken...
October 27, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is challenging a decision by Florida State University Schools , a K-12 public charter school, to involuntarily withdraw a 6-year-old Latino student in violation of his...
October 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Norma Ventura , staff attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project , in response to a federal court ruling allowing a challenge to...
October 21, 2022
Orlando, FL – Yesterday, a U.S. District Court refused to halt Florida’s enacted House Bill 1557, commonly referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” law, and dismissed the case altogether, but is allowing the plaintiffs an...
October 19, 2022
KNOXVILLE, TN — On Oct. 19, a federal judge preliminarily approved a class settlement of a lawsuit challenging an April 2018 immigration raid. The settlement provides over $1 million to workers detained as part of the raid, which...
October 13, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released an updated Extremist File on Andrew Anglin , the neo-Nazi who founded the Daily Stormer website. The SPLC first published an Extremist File on Anglin in 2016...
October 12, 2022
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – TODAY, through a preliminary injunction, a court blocked Jacksonville city council and school board maps that pack together Black communities to deny them a fair voice in government. The preliminary...
October 12, 2022
Montgomery, Ala. -- Last week, an organized prison strike began in correctional facilities throughout the state. Incarcerated people charged with cooking, cleaning and doing other tasks to take care of the facility all refused to...
