ADF ally accuses group of 'disingenuous' lobbying David Fowler, a former Tennessee state senator and current president of the Family Action Council of Tennessee (FACT), raised concerns about the lobbying practices of the Alliance Defending Freedom …
Today marks 59 years since brave civil rights foot soldiers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, as they marched for their fundamental right to vote. They were met with state troopers wielding billy clubs and beaten mercilessly as the world …
It was a good day to be in Selma, even if the misting rain kept people away until the afternoon sun broke through. Vice President Kamala Harris addresses Jubilee attendees. (Credit: Alyssa Pointer) But while the gray clouds threatened before they were …
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (DOJ) announced a settlement agreement with the Pasco County School District last night to end discrimination against students with disabilities in school discipline, threat …
Fifty-nine years ago, Jimmie Lee Jackson joined a peaceful march in Marion, Alabama, just outside Selma, the epicenter of the 1960s voting rights movement. The 26-year-old was among thousands across the South who were standing up against Jim Crow in the …
MONTGOMERY, Ala — After the discovery that voters in Alabama’s newly formed majority-Black congressional district received erroneous information, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement. Over the weekend, the SPLC became …
According to court documents, Genco wrote in his manifesto that his goal was, “the death of what I have been deprived of most, but also cherished and fantasize at the opportunity of having but has been neglected of; Women. I will slaughter out of hatred, …
On a quiet street in Alabama’s capital, Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy stand 15 feet tall, composed of pieces of mixed metal welded together. They represent the enslaved Black women and girls whom art activist Michelle Browder calls the “Mothers of Gynecology.” …
According to LGBTQ+ religious advocates, the co-opting of LGBTQ+ Christians’ victimization by far-right violence is part of a political agenda to further the false notion that LGBTQ+ people cannot also be religious. That idea ultimately sustains far-right …
On Feb. 8, 2016, my 75-year-old mother and her friend were killed while reading the morning paper and drinking coffee – two elderly women shot point blank for their credit cards. My mother was visiting a friend who had recently lost her husband when the …
It had seemed like such a blessing. A single parent living in a homeless shelter, eight months pregnant with her second child, Ayran Tucker was ecstatic when a townhouse opened up in Forest Cove, an affordable housing complex in Southeast Atlanta. At the …
Charles Person, now 80 years old, is the youngest of 13 original Freedom Riders. He says that when you are working toward effecting positive change, you should “never, ever give up.” He knows what he’s talking about. Person never gives up. As a young man, …
The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 may have paved the way for the desegregation of schools in the United States, but in the Jim Crow South it was no more than a gravel path at best. It wasn’t until six years …
As we approach the commemoration of Bloody Sunday, honoring people who undertook the march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights in 1965, I’m reminded of the bravery and sacrifice of these individuals who defended our democracy. This year marks the …
Neo-Nazi rally in Tennessee This week, Hatewatch published a story on a neo-Nazi rally that took place in Nashville, Tennessee, on Feb. 17, 2024. Christopher Alan Pohlhaus, the leader of a neo-Nazi group called Blood Tribe marched alongside about two …
FLORIDA — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new statewide survey that shows most Floridians believe that a quality K-12 public education is a right, and that Florida should invest more in educating young people while allowing …
As conservative politicians across the nation step up their assault on any discussion of Black history, gender norms and identity in public schools, Katie Rinderle – a beloved elementary school teacher in Cobb County, Georgia – remains the first teacher to …
With legal challenges to redistricting efforts increasingly hinging on the testimony of expert witnesses, the Southern Poverty Law Center is launching an initiative to train mathematicians and others on the sophisticated statistical and mapping analyses …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced the launch of the Race and Redistricting Expert Project (RREP), an initiative designed to build a robust pipeline of experts in mapping, statistics, and research to address the …
Katie Rinderle, a fifth-grade gifted specialist in the Cobb County School District in Georgia, was fired from her teaching job in 2023 for reading to her class My Shadow is Purple, an age-appropriate picture book about self-acceptance and navigating gender …
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