JACKSON, Miss. – Today, the Mississippi Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a provision of HB 1020 that, in part, strips Hinds County residents of their constitutionally protected right to elect their judges. In June 2023, the Southern Poverty Law …
ROYAL, Fla. — In a recent opinion, the National Park Service found that the central Florida community of Royal appears to meet the criteria for the National Register of Historic Places. Settled in the 1860s by Freedmen who obtained 40-acre or more parcels …
Charles Bausman, a 59-year-old American man who has lived in Russia on and off for the past three decades, founded the pro-Kremlin website Russia Insider in 2014 when he was living in Moscow. In the years following President Donald Trump’s 2016 electoral …
Ten years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to democracy. In Shelby County v. Holder, the high court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement and one of the most effective pieces of civil rights …
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Today, Georgia educator Katherine Rinderle appealed the Cobb County School Board’s decision last month to terminate her for reading My Shadow is Purple to her fifth grade gifted students at Due West Elementary School. Attorneys for the …
Despite objections from parents, students and teachers, such moves are dominating the public education agenda in this community just north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, now that five of the nine Pennridge School Board members are linked to Moms for …
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – In a letter today, the P.A.S.C.O. (People Against the Surveillance of Children and Overpolicing) Coalition asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to end its support of Pasco County’s discriminatory predictive policing programs …
Bausman, 59, is an American who has lived in Russia on and off for the past three decades. He founded the pro-Vladimir Putin website Russia Insider in September 2014 while living in Moscow. In 2018, Bausman relocated to the eastern Pennsylvanian town of …
Kate Centellas and her husband, Miguel, are professors at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. They have three children and live in a comfortable, upper-middle-class suburban house in a professional family neighborhood. Kate will tell you matter-of- …
WASHINGTON — Civil rights attorneys for Damion Glenroy Davis will present oral arguments before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 7 to end a law that excluded naturalized citizen fathers from passing U.S. citizenship to immigrant children who …
ATLANTA — A federal judge has stayed a preliminary injunction against Georgia Senate Bill 140 (“SB 140,” or the “Health Care Ban”) pending adjudication of the state’s request for her to reconsider her ruling. “We are disappointed, primarily for the …
Thanks to a bipartisan measure included in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, all iconography glorifying the Confederacy at military installations in the U.S. – memorials, statues, building names and other symbols – must be removed by Jan. 1. …
It was 18 years ago this week that Robert Ricks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, issued an ominous warning as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans. “Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks ... perhaps longer,” the note read. …
Members of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), the body that steers the national Libertarian Party (LP), engaged in talk of electoral collaboration with state-level Republican party affiliates, according to a leak of some internal communications, and …
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the United States. In 2022, only 32% of the state’s voting population exercised their right to vote. To expand voter education and engagement throughout the state, the Southern …
LOUISIANA—Decades after being sentenced to life without parole in Louisiana, Ivory Dixon, Jr., has been released from custody. “Ivory is a humble, honest, and hardworking father and grandfather,” said Emily Lubin, staff attorney at SPLC and attorney for …
They came from Starkville and Indianola, from New Orleans, Jackson and Montgomery, a group of heroes of their Deep South communities standing together at the Lincoln Memorial this past weekend to pledge commitment to a dream that, in a nation still riven …
Sixty years after the historic March on Washington, the nation grapples with many challenges. Margaret Huang, the president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), took the stage as a speaker at Saturday’s March on Washington, addressing these …
When the grassy expanses and the shaded walkways radiating from the Lincoln Memorial and its Reflecting Pool fill up this weekend to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, the gathered throngs calling on the federal government to …
Joseph Gleason moved to Russia from the United States in 2017 and edits a religious site that supports Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since late 2022, Gleason and a handful of American expatriates have collaborated with a pro-Kremlin politician to …
