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Anti-Confederate Billboard Urges Removal of Racist Monument from the Owensboro-Daviess County Courthouse Lawn

March 29, 2022

OWENSBORO, Ky. – Yesterday afternoon, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) raised a billboard in support of the Owensboro NAACP Branch 3107, whose advocacy led the Daviess County Fiscal Court to unanimously vote to remove its...

Upcoming Closure of Etowah County Detention Center is a Victory

March 28, 2022

ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) responded to the announcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that they will be closing the infamous Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Ala., and limiting the...

JOURNALIST MANUEL DURAN WINS ASYLUM

March 24, 2022

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – After a years-long fight, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) client and renowned journalist Manuel Duran has won his asylum case. Duran was arrested in April 2018 while covering a Memphis protest focused on...

Coalition of Civil Rights Organizations Denounce Jacksonville City Council Passage of Redistricting Maps that Dilute Black Voting Power and Divide Communities

March 23, 2022

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- On Tuesday, the Jacksonville City Council voted to pass new Council and School Board maps that dilute Black voting power and further divide communities. The Council map packs more than half of the city’s Black...

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER RELEASES ANNUAL YEAR IN HATE & EXTREMISM REPORT: WHEN HATE GOES MAINSTREAM

March 09, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021 report released today: hate and antigovernment extremism have gone mainstream, infecting the national and political...

SPLC Applauds New Jersey Supreme Court’s Denial of Appeal by JONAH; the Conversion Therapy Provider Who Was Barred From Promoting Fraudulent Practice in 2015 Will Have to Pay Damages

March 08, 2022

MONTGOMERY – The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined an appeal by Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) and its founders Arthur Goldberg and Elaine Berk, the conversion therapy providers who were barred from...

SPLC Vows to Continue to Fight Deeply Flawed Legislation

March 04, 2022

MIAMI – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Anne Janet Hernandez Anderson, a Senior Supervising Attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, regarding the late-night passage of SB1808...

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES CALL FOR IMMEDIATE DESIGNATION OF TPS STATUS FOR CAMEROON

February 25, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 280 immigrants’ and human rights organizations today delivered a letter to the Biden Administration calling for an immediate designation of temporary protected status (TPS) for Cameroon, in light of...

THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER APPLAUDS HISTORIC NOMINATION OF JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

February 25, 2022

Montgomery, Ala. —The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement on President Biden’s historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the next Justice of the...

Georgia Activists Fight for Transparency and Equity in Local Redistricting

February 25, 2022

Atlanta, GA (February 25, 2022) — Across the region, Southerners are ringing the alarm about persistent attacks on communities of color during the redistricting process. In Georgia, state lawmakers stand out for their egregious...

Transgender Woman Continues Fight for Transfer from Male Prison Where She Faces Repeated Sexual Assault

February 23, 2022

Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman held in a men’s prison in Georgia, continued her legal battle for protection from the ongoing sexual abuse she endures, by renewing her request last night for a federal court to order her...

Decades after Being Overturned, Discriminatory Guyer Rule Leads to Deportation of Kevin Silva

February 22, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On February 15, Kelvin Silva, a 45-year-old North Carolina resident, was deported to the Dominican Republic by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under an outdated and discriminatory immigration...

New Florida prison rule unnecessary; violates the right of the incarcerated to talk to attorneys

February 17, 2022

Tallahassee, FL – The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) held a hearing Thursday afternoon to get feedback on a proposed rule change that would make it difficult to impossible for incarcerated people to speak with lawyers...

Southern Education Foundation and the Southern Poverty Law Center announce the first recipient of their Lynn Walker Huntley Social Justice Fellowship

February 10, 2022

ATLANTA – The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced that the first Lynn Walker Huntley Social Justice Fellowship has been awarded to Harvard Law School student Harry Chiu. The...

Southern Poverty Law Center Condemns Georgia State Legislature for Weaponizing Redistricting to Diminish Political Power of Communities of Color

February 10, 2022

ATLANTA – Today the Georgia State Senate passed new maps for the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners with a new, predominantly White voting-age population district. The current Gwinnett County Commission is comprised entirely...

America’s HBCUs Under the Threat of Attack

February 04, 2022

MONTGOMERY – Margaret Huang, the President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), released the following statement in response to recent developments around bomb threats to several of our nation’s Historically Black...

SPLC: Planned Expansion of Private ICE Detention Center in Georgia a Betrayal by the Biden Administration

February 04, 2022

ATLANTA – Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement regarding Folkston Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Processing...

SPLC to Georgia: Don't Turn an American Tradition into a Racist One

February 02, 2022

Yesterday, a groundhog honoring two Confederate generals received widespread recognition for his weather predictions. February 1 is also the first day of Black History Month. The following statement is from Lecia Brooks, SPLC...

SPLC Launches Third Edition of its Whose Heritage? report tracking Confederate Memorials and their removals across the U.S.

February 01, 2022

MONTGOMERY — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released the third edition of its Whose Heritage? report , data, and map , which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. Click here to view the...

Three Transgender Protesters Sue Miami-Dade County for Violating Civil Rights in Custody

January 31, 2022

MIAMI, FL – January 31, 2022 Today, three transgender people, Gabriela Amaya Cruz, Christian Pallidine, and Ángel Jae Torres Bucci, filed suit in federal court against Miami-Dade County for abuse they suffered while in county...

SPLC: Mayorkas’ Comments Reverses Promises Made by Administration

January 26, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement in response to the recent comments made by Department of Homeland...

SPLC: We Will Stand with Our Community Partners & Fight Florida Anti-Immigrant Bill

January 24, 2022

MIAMI – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Anne Janet Hernandez Anderson, a Senior Supervising Attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, on the proposed SB1808 legislation ahead of...

SPLC Calls on Georgia General Assembly to Comply with Constitution, Federal Law and Give Opportunity for Public Input When Drawing County Government Maps

January 20, 2022

ATLANTA – Today, following the introduction of bills to redistrict county government bodies across many of Georgia’s 159 counties, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Walden Macht & Haran LLP sent letters to each state...

Civil Rights Groups and Zuckerman Spaeder File Lawsuit on Behalf of Floridian Unlawfully Profiled and Detained for Being Born Abroad

January 20, 2022

OCALA, Fla. — The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, and Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Neville Christopher Brooks, a legal permanent...

Southern Poverty Law Center and Civil Rights Corps warn Knox County judges that their bail hearings continue to violate the federal Constitution

January 20, 2022

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Civil Rights Corps (CRC) have informed judges, the sheriff, public defender, and other officials in Knox County that efforts to reform the County’s pretrial practices...

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