Features and Stories
Showing 161 Results
May 11, 2021
GRAHAM, N.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center raised a new billboard in support of the North Carolina Commission on Racial & Ethnic Disparities (NC CRED), which supports groups like Alamance Alliance 4 Justice, the Alamance...
April 27, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center launched its 2021 Confederate Billboard campaign in Florence, Alabama. In 2017, local advocacy group Project Say Something initially appealed for contextualization of the...
April 27, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Stone Mountain Memorial Association held its first meeting under the new leadership of Rev. Abraham Mosley, the first African American to lead the state’s authority in its 60-year history, to discuss future...
April 26, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The following statement is from SPLC Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “Since Reconstruction, Confederate symbols have been used by white supremacists as tools of racial terror. The United Daughters of the...
Features and Stories
April 01, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Today, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the city of Charlottesville can remove its statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the focal point for the Unite the Right rally in 2017, from public display...
Features and Stories
February 23, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released the 2020 year-end update to its Whose Heritage? report data and map, which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. The Whose...
January 15, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC — Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the arrest of the man who carried the Confederate flag into the Capitol during the insurrection on January 6. “Just as defeated...
