JACKSON, Miss. —The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of the Treasury on behalf of residents of Jackson, Mississippi, against the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and the state of …
Even before Alauni took an at-home pregnancy test just four weeks after a single instance of unplanned sexual activity, she knew it would be positive. The 24-year-old Texas college student – a single, working mother of three children under the age of 6, …
Ray is just one of those identified in the Data Lab’s newly published list of extremist channels on Odysee, which includes many channels soliciting support on the site. But his growing income on the platform raises questions about Odysee’s and Stripe’s …
Here is a list of books banned in Florida schools that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice program recommends for reading. The release of the list is part of the National Day of Action: Freedom to Learn event on May 3, 2023. Picture …
American education is in crisis. Books are being banned, curricula censored. State laws are stripping educational instruction of so-called “divisive concepts” involving race, history, sexual orientation and gender. School boards are morphing into political …
CPAC Hungary, an offshoot of the U.S.-based Conservative Political Action Conference, puts that country’s autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a global spotlight for a second consecutive year, surrounding him with like-minded figures from across the …
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. – On Wednesday, May 3, the Jefferson Parish School Board plans to vote on new school attendance zones after announcing they will close six schools at the end of the school year. Those schools serve predominately Black and Latino …
ATLANTA — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement from Susan Corke, director of the Intelligence Project, in response to the Stone Mountain Memorial Association (SMMA), the board that runs Stone Mountain Park, issuing a permit …
The conflict in the remote Northern California county shows how 2020 election conspiracy theories, including those about Dominion Voting machines, continue to propel events around the country. The recall papers were delivered to Crye in person at a …
Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised. In a bold swap engineered by a Black man and a white man working together, reckoning has come at last to Colfax, Louisiana. It was 150 years ago in the …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement from Susan Corke, director of the Intelligence Project, in response to renaming Fort Lee in Virginia. “We are thankful to see this military base renamed to Fort Gregg- …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement from Tafeni English-Relf, director of the Alabama State Office, in response to Bernie Moreno’s call for reparations for white descendants of Civil War soldiers. “We …
Rod Dreher, a conservative writer whose columns have appeared at right-wing outlet The American Conservative for 12 years, should register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) for his work with a Hungarian think tank funded by Hungary’s far- …
Harry Belafonte, the award-winning singer, actor and civil rights activist who died today at 96, made enormous contributions to society that continue to inspire our fight for the freedom and liberation of Black and Brown people. Belafonte broke down racial …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement in response to the death of Harry Belafonte, Jr., award-winning singer, actor, and civil rights activist. “Harry Belafonte was a passionate civil rights icon whose …
ATLANTA – Today, voting rights organizations filed an emergency preliminary injunction motion to lift part of the restriction in Georgia’s anti-voter law, S.B. 202, that blocks Georgians from providing food and water to voters waiting in long lines at …
The announcement said that “Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday, April 21st,” meaning that the host would not have the opportunity to say farewell to his “Tucker Carlson Tonight” audience, which was the largest in cable news. Whether or not Fox News …
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed an administrative complaint today with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, urging the department to investigate a decision by the Jefferson Parish School Board to …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement from Jalaya Liles Dunn, director of the SPLC’s Learning for Justice, in response to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey’s decision to fire the director of the state’s Department …
