Today, SPLC President Richard Cohen joined Rep. Terri Sewell, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and others in Birmingham, Alabama, for the Congressional Forum on the Current State of Voting Rights in America. The following are his prepared remarks.
On the early morning of Thursday February 25th, a police officer shot and killed unarmed Greg Gunn in west Montgomery, Alabama.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore should be removed from the bench for advising state probate judges to enforce Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a new supplement filed today in its ongoing ethics complaint against Moore.
The Southern Poverty Law Center had a highly successful year in 2015. We won justice for exploited workers, schoolchildren subjected to shocking cruelty, poor people thrown into modern-day debtors’ prisons, and many others.
The far-right backlash against our civil rights progress reaches the U.S. Supreme Court this week with two critically important cases that could dramatically set back efforts to achieve racial equality in our nation.
Far more common than incidents of police brutality in schools are the everyday encounters with police that result in suspensions, expulsions and arrests that criminalize ordinary children.
SPLC president notes surge in violence and terrorism motivated by far-right extremism.
Justice Tom Parker derided federal judiciary and suggested that Alabama should defy the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision.
Arson is behind a fire this week at a Planned Parenthood clinic in California – the fourth terroristic attack of its kind since the release of controversial videos in July by a group linked to anti-abortion extremists.
Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler took his complaints about the removal of the portrait of Gov. George Wallace from the Statehouse all the way to the neo-Confederate League of the South
