The Department of Justice charged Bowers with 63 felony counts associated with that attack on the synagogue on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, including 11 counts of hate crimes resulting in death. Bowers, 51, faces a potential death sentence if …
The afternoon was warm and sunny on April 7, 1964, when Joanne Klunder took her two young children to the Cleveland zoo. Her husband, the Rev. Bruce Klunder, set out in the opposite direction, to protest an evil that he and his wife deeply opposed – school …
JACKSON, Miss. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Mississippi State Office is pleased to announce the 2023 Advocacy Institute. Applications for the Advocacy Institute will be accepted through Monday, May 1. The annual program kicks off in Jackson, …
Thirty years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Wisconsin v. Mitchell, the landmark case that upheld the constitutionality of hate crime penalty enhancement laws. The case involved a violent racial assault in a Kenosha apartment …
ATLANTA — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Efrén C. Olivares, deputy legal director of the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, in response to the stipulated dismissal of Southern Poverty Law Center v. Department of …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — On Saturday, April 22 at 5:00 p.m. CT, the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC), a project of Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), will celebrate and honor the social justice and civil rights work of Joanne Klunder Hardy and the late Rev. …
The deaths came after the FBI flooded the site with CS gas delivered with tanks and grenade launchers. Subsequent fires consumed the buildings. Apart from the victims of the fire, six members of the sect and four agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco …
When white supremacists chanted “You will not replace us” at rallies beginning around 2017, some Americans and mainstream media viewed them as fringe, far-right extremists. But former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and slogans – such as “Make America …
Christianity, many members of the American hard right contend, should hold a preeminent place in our society and even form the basis for our laws. White people, they (often implicitly) suggest, deserve to hold a dominant position in society because of …
In a triumphant moment for democracy and for the people of Tennessee, local officials in Nashville and Memphis voted unanimously last week to reappoint Justin Jones and Justin Pearson to their seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives after they were …
‘It’s a really painful thing’ A section of the finished mural in 2020 on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. (Contributed photo) The mural remained in place for a little more than a year before Patriot Front allegedly damaged it. In that time …
Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – has become increasingly important not only for remembering the horrors of the Holocaust, or Shoah, but for reflecting on what we can learn from it and how to apply these lessons today as antisemitism surges in the …
MIAMI — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Americans for Immigrant Justice released the following statements in response to the Eleventh Circuit decision in the City of South Miami, et al. v. DeSantis, et al., a case challenging Florida’s law …
James Ray has been busy over the last couple of weeks. The house on Front Street in Silver City, Mississippi, that his father left him 18 years ago is still a shambles. Pieces of tin roofing curl up toward the sky where the winds from an EF4 tornado tried …
MIAMI — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from A.J. Hernández Anderson, senior supervising attorney for the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, in response to the Eleventh Circuit decision in the City of South Miami, et …
ATLANTA — This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Project South and pro bono counsel, Perkins Coie LLP, petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to overturn a federal district court decision denying class certification to …
The charges arose from the group’s alleged plans to disrupt a Pride festival in Coeur d’Alene last June. At that time, 31 members of the group were arrested by officers of Coeur d’Alene Police Department as they alighted from rental trucks. All were …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement from Susan Corke, director of the Intelligence Project, in response to the 2022 release of its Whose Heritage? data and map, which tracks public symbols of the …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released an interactive timeline tracking the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front. The group formed in 2017, following the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, …
The following timeline provides an overview of Patriot Front’s most significant activities since 2017. Led by Thomas Rousseau, of Grapevine, Texas, Patriot Front has generated national headlines by launching flash rallies, where its members show up …
