At a recent listening session, Ashley Shelton, founder and executive director of the New Orleans-based nonprofit Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, learned something about why Louisiana’s Black vote in November’s statewide general elections was the …
Tina Descovich, a co-founder of the Florida-based, self-appointed “parental rights” group Moms for Liberty, has been appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to the state independent Commission on Ethics, where she has been serving since September. The state Senate …
The Southern Poverty Law Center continued its mission as a catalyst for racial justice in 2023, refusing to back down from challenges and a difficult environment for many of the communities served by the SPLC. Here is a look back at a few key …
In the house in Greenville, South Carolina, that Karen Baynes-Dunning calls home, a sunny room is scattered with squares and ribbons and swaths of fabric – strands of the vibrant quilts this native of the South crafts for the people she holds dear. …
WASHINGTON AND MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Yesterday, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), along with the pro bono law firm Crowell Moring LLP, jointly filed an amicus brief in support of Hello Alice, a …
Lyord Watson Jr. thought he was well versed in the history surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation. He had every reason to be. A preacher who is founder and CEO of Penny Foundation Inc., a Birmingham, Alabama-based community chest working to eliminate …
As an immigration attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, I have immense respect for anyone who has had to migrate to another country for safety or a better life. My job involves a lot of one-on-one work with people who are or have been detained by U. …
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — In a win for Black and Latinx voters, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia blocked the Cobb County School Board from using its racially gerrymandered map in an upcoming election because it violates the Fourteenth …
The hearing and report are part of an ongoing campaign by the subcommittee pressuring the FBI into admitting that an internal memo violated the religious liberties of followers of Catholicism. The committee’s report downplays the extreme antisemitic views …
Twitter suspended Jones’s account on Sept. 6, 2018, and archives show Jones with roughly 900,000 followers at that time. Jones initially signed up for Twitter in 2010. It took Jones eight years to reach 900,000 – and in span of days, he nearly doubled it …
One hundred and fifty-eight years ago this month, Congress ratified the 13th Amendment decreeing that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude … shall exist within the United States.” Black people were freed from bondage, and the subsequent era of …
Content warning: This article contains graphic language, including anti-LGBTQ+ slurs and racist and antisemitic language. Reader discretion is advised. The leader of the white nationalist Tennessee Active Club, Sean Kauffmann, is a Holocaust denier who …
The hearing and report are part of an ongoing campaign by the subcommittee pressuring the FBI into admitting that an internal memo violated the religious liberties of followers of Catholicism. The committee’s report downplays the extreme antisemitic views …
Three right-wing ideologues signed contracts that may require they register as foreign agents for a Hungarian government-funded organization – and that the organization is possibly altering language in contracts to avoid this – according to a review of …
TALLAHASSEE — Today, three Florida educators filed a lawsuit challenging Florida Statute § 1000.071(3) (2023) (“Subsection 3”), an anti-LGBTQ+ statute that targets Florida’s transgender and nonbinary teachers for being themselves at work. By barring …
After a Florida law blocked transgender and nonbinary teachers from using the pronouns and titles that best express themselves, the Southern Poverty Law Center and its partners filed a lawsuit on behalf of three teachers challenging the anti-LGBTQ+ statute …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a sweeping new report that details how pseudoscience has become a tool of the far right to manipulate public opinion and advance legislation and legal action targeting the LGBTQ+ …
“I owe a lot to the teams I work with. For example, working with Alliance Defending Freedom, generating amicus briefs for [state] high court and Supreme Court cases that deal with [LGBTQ rights] and other things that we’re interested in. Trying to affect …
The anti-LGBTQ+ Movement is known for divisive political tactics. For example, anti-LGBTQ+ campaigns led by the National Organization for Marriage attempted to use religion to pit people of color against LGBTQ+ people in a racialized version of the “divide …
