President Obama and Congress recently took an important step toward closing the achievement gap in our nation’s schools and stemming the tide of students needlessly pushed out of class and into the school-to-prison pipeline.
SPLC events in four states highlight the need to reform the justice system to treat children like children.
Suspensions are just one of the ways schools are meting out shockingly cruel punishments for minor school infractions.
Four years after the SPLC filed a civil rights complaint, the U.S. Department of Justice has found that Georgia discriminates against students with disabilities by segregating them from other students.
When Michael Austin was sent to an Alabama prison in 1995, he was subjected to a brutal practice from a bygone era — the prison chain gang.
Mary Bauer, who has directed the Southern Poverty Law Center's Immigrant Justice Project since its inception in 2004, has been named as the SPLC's new legal director, effective Aug. 1.
Law enforcement traffic stops based on race or ethnicity are not only unconstitutional. They're also remarkably ineffective
A key opponent of 'birthright citizenship' claims that the courts have misinterpreted the Constitution. But he's wrong
