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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Victims of Jackson, Mississippi, water crisis face eviction from their homes
For weeks this summer, Doris Glasper’s taps were dry. She had paid her rent and utility bills. She knew that much. But her apartment complex’s owner had not. He owed more than $100,000 to JXN Water, the city’s water authority, and the residents of Blossom Apartments were suffering the consequences. The 70-year-old grandmother shares a…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Five ways you can continue to fight against the ‘One Big Ugly Bill Act’
On the eve of Independence Day, our Republican-led Senate and House moved at breakneck speed to narrowly pass their one big, ugly budget bill that cut hundreds of billions from Medicaid and SNAP to give massive tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy. While President Trump and his supporters celebrate this cruel law that takes…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Intelligence Project leader working for global solutions to hate, extremism at UN opening
A collaborative global effort to prevent the spread of white supremacy — while protecting freedom of speech — is essential. That’s why the Southern Poverty Law Center is working to encourage the United Nations to do more. A Sept. 9 side event during the opening week of the U.N. General Assembly session featured Rachel Carroll…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
The Far Right Exploits Natural Disasters
Hard-right groups use their responses to natural disasters as opportunities to portray themselves in the best possible light, which can open avenues for recruiting new members to their causes. While engaging in relief efforts, hard-right groups also spread conspiracy theories that are foundational to their larger movements. Additionally, they can create hostile environments that slow…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Real Alternatives: Ending Disciplinary Alternative Education
Thomas, a Black ninth grader from Louisiana, was required to transfer to an alternative school after he was shot. At the time of his exclusion, he had not been arrested or charged with any crime; instead, he was a victim of crime. After being discharged from the hospital, his home high school barred him from…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
September 2025 Intelligence Project Dispatch: Trends and incidents of the hard right
The Southern Poverty Law Center works to dismantle white supremacy in public forums and online, exposes hate and anti-democracy extremism and counters disinformation and conspiracy theories with research and community resources. The Intelligence Project monitors and exposes white supremacy and its impact on communities. Confederate monuments Anti-LGBTQ+ movement Conspiracy propagandists White nationalist and neo-Nazi movement…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Black men in Georgia learn how to lead their communities through SPLC program
In June, 10 men walked into a Columbus, Georgia, meeting room as strangers. Seven weeks later, they would leave as allies. Together, they comprise the inaugural class of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Black Male Leadership Institute, an initiative the SPLC’s Georgia state office launched this summer. The theme for the institute emerged for Lakisa…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Tea Party Patriots bus tour stokes anti-immigrant, election integrity fears
Tea Party Patriots Action (TPPA), an antigovernment group, hit the road in mid-August for a bus tour promoting anti-voter legislation in Congress. The TPPA “Only Citizens Vote Bus Tour” kicked off Aug. 18 in Garden Grove, California, with 20 people in attendance. It is scheduled to stop in about 20 communities before concluding with…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Making Recovery Last
Power has three faces. The first face — we see who won and who lost. The second face: who decides. To figure that out, you must ask who is benefiting and who is losing: the third face. This is when the deep structural contours of power emerge.” — Marshall Ganz on Steven Lukes’ “three faces…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Exposing Gaps in Disaster Relief
The time is now for federal funding to adequately support communities that are disproportionately impacted by natural disasters and climate change by focusing preparation and recovery efforts on rebuilding communities, not just rebuilding property.” In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a storm with sustained winds of 125 mph when it made landfall, caused widespread destruction…
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