On May 14, 2022, an 18-year-old white supremacist drove over 200 miles to Buffalo and murdered 10 Black people, injuring three others, at a supermarket. The young man had come to believe the false conspiracy theory that Jewish people and liberal …
WASHINGTON — Today, youth and civil rights advocates renewed their request for the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to investigate Louisiana’s repeated failure to provide general and special education for children in secure care …
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), ACLU of Georgia, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) and Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP (SRZ), filed a motion for …
ATLANTA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta (Foundation) announce 68 organizations selected to receive grants through the Vote Your Voice initiative. These grants, called field strengthening …
As organizations move toward creating more equitable, justice-focused workplaces, a new way of thinking about social justice performance has begun to emerge. Innovation labs, commonly used in the corporate world to engineer pioneering ideas for business …
A workers rights organization pairs with a tech startup to get unemployment benefits for gig drivers in Philadelphia. A domestic workers alliance raises $30 million in weeks to put cash in the pockets of housekeepers, nannies and caregivers thrown out of …
Many sponsors claim to be rooted in a local, grassroots movement to save children from grooming and sexualization. However, a deeper look shows that well-known right-wing big money groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Bradley Foundation are …
Every 10 years, political bodies across the U.S. go through the process of reconciling population changes detected in the latest census with district maps that govern how voters elect public officials. Sometimes populations grow in some districts and …
(OCTOBER 18, 2023) – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Advancement Project, Alliance for Educational Justice, the National Women’s Law Center, the In Our Names Network, and Interrupting Criminalization hosted a national virtual event. The …
ATLANTA — This week the parties reached a settlement in a forced labor case against CoreCivic, Inc. (CoreCivic), the private prison company that operates Stewart Detention Center (Stewart) in Lumpkin, GA, for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). …
SAPELO ISLAND, Ga. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in partnership with Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP, filed an appeal in the Superior Court of McIntosh County on behalf of residents of Hogg Hummock, citing an unlawful zoning amendment that …
ATLANTA — Leonard Cure, a 53-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a police officer in Camden County, Ga. on Monday. In 2020, Mr. Cure was exonerated after being incarcerated for nearly two decades in Florida. “Our hearts are heavy with grief as we …
Content warning: The following case summary contains graphic descriptions of a mother almost dying during childbirth. Ashley Caswell filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Alabama after her constitutional rights were violated when a notorious county jail …
Hate and extremist groups have received upward of $23 million in cash from “donor-advised funds,” recently released forms show. At the same time, hate groups and extremist figures who are no longer able to take part in the lucrative world of traditional …
ATLANTA — A three-judge panel for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is allowing a case challenging Georgia’s racially gerrymandered congressional district map to move forward. The case, brought by several Georgia voters, Common …
ABBEVILLE, La. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit today on behalf of the Vermilion Parish NAACP to block the Abbeville City Council-approved redistricting map that denies equal representation to voters, in violation of the Fourteenth …
After the Abbeville City Council in Louisiana chose to use a district map that denies equal representation to voters, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Vermilion Parish NAACP to block use of the map. The federal lawsuit …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, following the release of the FBI 2022 Hate Crime Statistics Act report, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) once again called for action by Congress to expand prevention efforts and make hate crime reporting mandatory by law …
It is National Hispanic Heritage Month and cultural, community and policy organizations across the country are engaged in an annual celebration of the histories of the people of Latin America – and of the innumerable ways their vibrant cultures have …
On Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. CT, the Civil Rights Memorial Center, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), will host Fergus M. Bordewich, author of "Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction" for a …
