Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. In the spring of 1978, police in Decatur, Alabama, arrested 26-year-old Tommy Lee Hines and charged him with raping two white women and robbing one. Before he could be brought to trial, …
As we look ahead to 2024 and beyond, we’re excited to launch the Hopewatch blog as a place to foster connection and community, to share stories about people on the front lines of change in the Deep South, and – as the name suggests – to deepen our capacity …
He testified before the House Select Committee in a July 2022 public hearing investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. During his interview and televised testimony, he gave insight into his role as national media director of the Oath Keepers, …
To push his extreme agenda, DeSantis has used the megaphone that comes with being governor, backed right-wing policy in the state and fought for his self-created culture war in court. However, he now has a new tool at his disposal – a state militia called …
Polignano is a veteran member of the white power movement, and Counter-Currents has played a leading role in spreading white nationalist thought between North America and Europe. While Counter-Currents is a significant publisher of racist books and essays, …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice (LFJ) program released a new curriculum framework to help educators, parents and caregivers teach high school-age students about Black Americans’ struggle for equality and …
While acting as an authority on pediatrics to bolster arguments for limiting the availability of health care for trans people, the Atlanta-based Van Meter described himself in two cases – Eknes-Tucker v. Ivey in Alabama (also known as Boe v. Marshall), …
Monday marked the beginning of an important period that honors the transgender community and people who have been killed because they are trans. Transgender Awareness Week reminds us of the importance of trans visibility. It is “a week when transgender …
In 2015, when Wilhen Hill Barrientos was sent to the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, after seeking asylum in the U.S., he could either work for nearly nothing or lose access to basic necessities, safety and privacy. He was told that if he …
Some mornings before she opens her eyes in the house she shares with her parents, husband and son, Carletta Davis thinks back to a sunny day when – in her memory – the city of Prichard, her hometown on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, was united in pride and hope. It …
The conference will feature representatives of antigovernment extremist organization Moms for Liberty, anti-LGBTQ hate groups the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM), which advocates for anti-LGBTQ policies at the U.N, Family Watch International ( …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced that Karen Baynes-Dunning was elected by the SPLC Board of Directors as chair of the board. Baynes-Dunning, who first joined the board in October 2017, has played a crucial role in …
Executive summary Odysee is a video-storage and livestreaming platform designed as an alternative to YouTube. SPLC’s Data Lab found that Odysee has little to no content moderation and provides a steady income stream for hate groups and extremists, …
ORLANDO, Fla. — Judge Vincent Falcone III issued a decision in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community v. The School Board of Orange County, Florida. The litigation by the Association to Preserve the …
Sitting in a lecture hall at Jackson State University’s College of Business in Mississippi, professor D’Andra Orey took an informal poll of the dozen or so political science students. “How many of y’all are registered to vote?” he asked. Just about every …
Johnson now serves in one of the most powerful positions in the federal government and is second in the line of presidential succession. Given his fringe public statements and positions, it is not surprising that hate groups and extremists have rushed to …
The wave of bomb threats followed an Aug. 20 incident in which a Yolo County Library worker cut short anti-trans activist Sophia Lorey’s pre-planned speech at the library, where she intended to focus on transgender women participating in women’s sports. …
For more than 50 years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has worked to expose hate, violence and extremism in the Deep South and across the United States. In the last decade alone, we have witnessed a resurgence of white nationalism and violent extremism …
Shareef Cousin was 17 when he first set foot in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Wrongly convicted of murder, in 1996 he became the youngest person there, awaiting execution in one of the most notorious prisons in the U.S. Two years later, the Louisiana …
PHOENIX — Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona ruled that the federal government does not have immunity under federal tort law for claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence in A.P.F. v. U.S., a lawsuit …
