May 26, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement on Twitter's fact check of the president's tweets on vote-by-mail is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “We’re thankful to see Twitter is...
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May 26, 2020
COLUMBUS, Ga. – Santiago Baten-Oxlaj, a 34-year-old Guatemalan man, became the second known person to die from COVID-19 under the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Baten-Oxlaj was detained at Stewart Detention...
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May 24, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In a significant decision for voting rights, a federal court on Sunday affirmed voting rights for hundreds of thousands of Floridians who are unable to satisfy the state’s onerous monetary requirements in...
May 22, 2020
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. – This week, the Georgia Board of Education (GBOE) ruled that a Gwinnett County student barred from school since mid-November was wrongly expelled after finding no evidence the student violated the district’s...
May 21, 2020
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, regarding the indefinite extension of the Centers...
May 20, 2020
BATON ROUGE, La. – Yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Fair Elections Center, and Arnold & Porter filed a federal lawsuit against Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, and other...
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We are only beginning to feel the impacts of the coronavirus, but we know that the communities we serve — including low-income people, immigrants and people of color — are already among the most affected.
May 19, 2020
Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched a new survey to examine the range of issues facing students and families during school closures in response to Covid-19 in the U.S. Primarily focused on the Southeast region...
