March 17, 2020
Montgomery, Alabama — With the coronavirus spreading quickly across the country, dozens of civil rights groups including the Southern Poverty Law Center, (SPLC) are demanding that the federal government and Mississippi ,...
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Features and Stories
Drugs were a way of life in the economically struggling “Brickyard” neighborhood of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Nicky Patterson grew up.
Hatewatch
Anti-LGBTQ hate group Ruth Institute presented a “Make the Family Great Again” petition to the State Department at its Commission on Unalienable Rights meeting Feb. 21.
Features and Stories
This month kicks off a major — and vital — process that is fundamental to the success of our Democracy.
March 13, 2020
Freedom for Immigrants (FFI), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention, and Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC) have filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland...
March 12, 2020
The following statement is from Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC Action Fund : “While the delay of the vote on the NO BAN Act is disappointing, our unwavering commitment to strike down this signature piece...
Attention on Detention
March 12, 2020
Shackled, cuffed and stuffed into the “black hole” of America’s immigration system in rural Georgia, far away from family and friends, Marco soon began to rely heavily on his faith.
He was forced to share a room with 63 other men at Stewart Detention Center. He slept on a stiff bunk bed, and the guards kept the lights on all night.
It was hard for him to sleep under those conditions, so he prayed.
March 11, 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 , about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the...
Hatewatch
Sen. Mitt Romney may have found himself locked out of the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, from Feb. 26-29, but Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, seemed to find himself at right at home – whether CPAC’s leadership liked it or not.
Features and Stories
The Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) in Montgomery, Alabama, is closed until further notice.
