Stories
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Report: Black girls suffer most from policing in Florida school district
When S.D. walked through the halls of her Florida high school, security guards looked at her inappropriately, gaping at her body. “I’m a female with curves,” she said, requesting anonymity. “No one touched me, no one said anything, but the looking. It happened in the halls, outside, walking back and forth in school, multiple times…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
In Supreme Court case, SPLC supports rights of people experiencing homelessness
On a day off from the crush of representing her constituents, you might find Florida state Sen. Rosalind Osgood on a park bench in the sun, her eyes closed. Or you might come across attorney David Peery, a graduate of Howard University and George Washington University Law School, enjoying a Sunday nap on a grassy…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Alabama teen to join SPLC delegation at UN forum on racial discrimination
When it feels like justice is an ocean away, sometimes you have to cross the water. A soft-spoken 19-year-old named CJ Jones and his dad will do just that next week. They will fly from their home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Geneva, Switzerland, to tell the United Nations what officials in CJ’s native state didn’t…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Celebrating true Southern heritage in April instead of the Confederacy
This April will see Confederate Heritage Month or similar observances occurring in some states. From the first secessionist shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9, 1865, Confederates fought for slavery and white supremacy. That is Confederate heritage. It is not Southern heritage. Those…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
About the SPLC’s Fashion is Freedom Showcase
The SPLC’s Fashion is Freedom Showcase is a fashion design competition that serves as an exciting and innovative opportunity to engage young fashion enthusiasts in the movement for social change and voter empowerment in Mississippi. In this competition, designers must produce a collection of six original looks, and meet the deadlines and requirements outlined below.…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Learn more about the Alabama Advocacy Institute’s inaugural training program
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Advocacy Institute in Alabama is home to a series of training programs supported by the SPLC staff, subject matter experts, community-based partner organizations and other community stakeholders that offer hands-on policy and advocacy training to provide participants with the skills needed to create positive change throughout our communities. ABOUT THE…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
- Other Isssue and Topics
- Women's History Month
Advocate empowers youth in Atlanta neighborhood where SPLC plans new office
KaCey Venning spent four years in school classrooms before she realized that the best way to serve her students was by resigning. The former public school teacher is the co-founder and executive director of Helping Empower Youth (HEY!), a youth development program based in Atlanta’s English Avenue neighborhood – an area with one of the…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Children face hunger across Deep South after states refuse summer food aid
The day school gets out for summer sparkles in the American imagination as a vision of children spilling out of classrooms into joyful weeks of freedom and warmth. But in reality, the summer months bring something else for millions of children across the country: hunger. For people like Shaneka Haynes, a single mother in Atlanta…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
‘Banned From Public Spaces’: Report highlights criminalization of homelessness
In this playlist: People who have experienced homelessness in Athens, Georgia, share stories of facing harassment and inhumane treatment, and discuss how the support they’ve received has enabled them to overcome adversity. Walk through downtown Athens, Georgia, on any given day and you may hear the sound of drumsticks – sometimes heavy, sometimes sharp, sometimes…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee highlights progress and continuing battles
It was a good day to be in Selma, even if the misting rain kept people away until the afternoon sun broke through. But while the gray clouds threatened before they were vanquished, the smell of barbecue competed with the low throb of bass powering old R&B classics along Water Avenue to draw people out…
