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Parents and Community Members Urge Tennessee Court to Stop Rushed School Voucher Rollout

July 25, 2022

Nashville, Tenn. – Following Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s announcement that the state immediately will begin implementing its controversial private school voucher program for the school year starting in just a few weeks, public...

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035, TNG-CWA Reach Collective Bargaining Agreement

July 25, 2022

MONTGOMERY, AL – TODAY , The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035 , TNG-CWA (the Guild of WBNG) announced their first collective bargaining agreement on July 15, 2022, covering...

Jacksonville Residents and Civil Rights Groups Seek Injunction to Block Jacksonville City Council’s Racially-Gerrymandered Maps

July 22, 2022

JACKSONVILLE – TODAY the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida , Harvard Election Law Clinic and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed for a preliminary injunction on behalf of the Jacksonville NAACP Branch , the...

House Committee Has Made Important Strides In Exposing Threats to Our Democracy

July 22, 2022

WASHINGTON – Following the bipartisan House Jan. 6 Select Committee’s eighth public hearing last night, Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement: “Over the last...

TIARA HUDSON, VOTING RIGHTS GROUPS CHALLENGE COMMISSION'S DECISION TO STEAL JUDGESHIP FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY

July 19, 2022

BIRMINGHAM – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU-AL) filed litigation on behalf of Tiara Young Hudson challenging the constitutionality of the Alabama Judicial...

Georgians Call For Immediate End To Ban On Line Relief In Preliminary Injunction Hearing

July 18, 2022

ATLANTA – TODAY , July 18, 2022, Georgians called for the court to grant immediate relief through a preliminary injunction and block the portion of anti-voter law, S.B. 202 , that criminalizes Georgians providing food or water to...

SPLC and LWV Call on Supreme Court To Defend Equal Representation For Black Alabamians By Affirming Decision Striking Down Alabama Congressional Map

July 18, 2022

WASHINGTON D.C. – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL) , the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) , Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and Stand-Up Mobile submitted...

New Report: Human Rights Violations in Prisons Throughout Southern United States Cause Disparate & Lasting Harm in Black Communities 

July 15, 2022

NEW YORK - Today, the Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the devastating...

The Southern Poverty Law Center: Cobb County School Board Decision to Arm School Employees Endangers Lives

July 15, 2022

COBB COUNTY, Ga. – Over community objections, the Cobb County School Board last night approved a policy that allows the district superintendent to authorize certain school employees to carry guns on school property, including...

SURVIVORS AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS SUBMIT COMPLAINT AGAINST ICE, NURSE AND PRIVATE PRISON COMPANY DEMANDING JUSTICE AND INVESTIGATION INTO STEWART DETENTION CENTER

July 13, 2022

ATLANTA – Today, four survivors of the Stewart Detention Detention Center (Stewart) in collaboration with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, El Refugio, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Human Rights Clinic, Georgia Latino...

SPLC: NEW DEPARTMENT OF LABOR POLICY A WELCOME STEP FOR PROTECTING LONG EXPLOITED IMMIGRANT WORKERS

July 08, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released new policy guidance for immigrant workers involved in worksite labor disputes on how to seek the DOL’s support to receive immigration-related prosecutorial discretion...

SPLC: PRESIDENT BIDEN MUST ACT WITH URGENCY TO ADDRESS HUMAN RIGHTS CATASTROPHE AT THE BORDER

June 30, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Stephanie M. Alvarez-Jones, staff attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project , responding to today’s Supreme Court’s ruling on...

Georgia Department of Labor Agrees to Settle Unemployment Claim Lawsuit with Promise to Improve Speed of Unpaid and Unprocessed Unemployment Claims

June 30, 2022

ATLANTA -- Earlier today, U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee approved a preliminary settlement in a lawsuit filed against the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) over the payment and processing of unemployment insurance benefits...

Anti-Confederate Billboard Urges Removal of Jim Crow Statue from Putnam County Courthouse Grounds

June 29, 2022

PALATKA, Fla. – On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a billboard in support of the Putnam Alliance For Equity and Justice , which has been advocating for the removal of a Confederate monument from the entrance to...

Anti-Confederate Billboard Urges Removal of Jim Crow Statue from Putnam County Courthouse Grounds

June 29, 2022

Dobbs Ruling Overturning Roe v. Wade Will Roll Back the Human Rights of Many in the Deep South 

June 24, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C . – – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s ban on all abortions after 15 weeks, overturning the Court’s own 1973 landmark decision in Roe v. Wade.          The Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson...

Part Two of “Sounds Like Hate” Podcast Drops

June 21, 2022

RICHMOND — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) dropped the third episode in the fourth season of its acclaimed podcast, Sounds Like Hate . The second installment of “Wake-Up Call” leads award-winning co-hosts Jamila...

SPLC CALLS FOR PROTECTIONS FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS ON WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2022

June 20, 2022

ATLANTA – Efrén C. Olivares , Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project , released the following statement to join the  United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)  to observe...

CIVIL AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN SIGNING OF ANTI-IMMIGRANT BILL (SB 1808) BY GOV. DESANTIS

June 17, 2022

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Civil rights and immigrants’ rights organizations across the state denounced Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing of SB 1808 into law today. The groups say the law is discriminatory and seeks to unjustly and unlawfully...

New Season of “Sounds Like Hate” Podcast Released; Examines the Cost of Idolizing the Confederacy at the Virginia Military Institute

June 14, 2022

Montgomery, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released two new episodes of the acclaimed podcast, Sounds Like Hate . Season four will examine the story of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va...

SPLC URGES U.S. TREASURY TO INVESTIGATE FLORIDA'S PLANNED REDIRECTION OF $12 MILLION IN FEDERAL PANDEMIC AID TO TARGET IMMIGRANTS

June 09, 2022

MIAMI – The Southern Poverty Law Center has called for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to open an investigation into the legality of the State of Florida’s planned use of $12 million in...

Voting Rights Organizations Challenge Cobb County School Board Map Denying Equal Representation to Voters of Color

June 09, 2022

ATLANTA – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) , ACLU of Georgia , Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyer’s Committee) and Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP (SRZ...

SPLC PUBLISHES EXTREMIST FILE FOR JACK POSOBIEC

June 09, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released a new Extremist File on Jack Posobiec , a political operative and propagandist well known for creating and amplifying viral disinformation campaigns. Often...

Alabama Challenged in Court for Denying Accessible Absentee Voting Ballots to the Blind and People with Print Disabilities

June 08, 2022

MONTGOMERY – TODAY the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) , and Brown Goldstein & Levy , on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind of Alabama (NFB-AL) and individual...

NEW IMMIGRATION ASYLUM RULE DENIES DUE PROCESS RIGHTS AND LIMITS LEGAL COUNSEL

June 03, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An asylum screening rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) denies asylum seekers their due process rights by limiting their ability to properly...

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