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Award-winning 人兽性交 Education Program Gets New Name, Leadership

February 03, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Teaching Tolerance project, newly named Learning for 人兽性交, is now led by Jalaya Liles Dunn, a 20-year veteran education advocate who aims to expand the project into homes...

Federal Court Allows Workers鈥� Claims to Proceed in Lawsuit Challenging Major ICE Workplace Raid

February 02, 2021

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. 鈥� On Sunday, January 31, a federal judge largely allowed a lawsuit challenging an April 2018 immigration raid to proceed, denying in part the federal government鈥檚 motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The raid took...

The Year in Hate and Extremism 2020: Organized hate groups became more difficult to track amid COVID and migration to online networks

February 01, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� In the final year of a Trump presidency that propelled racist conspiracy theories and white nationalist ideology into the political mainstream, far-right extremists continued to migrate to online networks as...

人兽性交: MPS Students and Educators Deserve a Plan

January 27, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� In the wake of the tragic deaths of four educators related to complications from COVID-19, Montgomery Public Schools Superintendent Ann Roy Moore announced Monday that all students will resume virtual learning...

人兽性交: Osceola County Public Schools Must Protect Students from Police Brutality

January 27, 2021

KISSIMMEE, Fla. 鈥� Yesterday, a video surfaced on social media that showed an Osceola County Sheriff鈥檚 deputy slamming a Black female student at Liberty High School to a sidewalk headfirst, causing her body to go limp. Even as she...

人兽性交 Statement Observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 26, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The following statement is from Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center . 鈥淥n January 27, we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to remember the victims of the...

Unlawfully Imprisoned for Months, Eight Cubans Take ICE to Federal Court

January 25, 2021

LUMPKIN, Ga. 鈥� On Friday, January 22, eight Cubans filed a group habeas petition in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, seeking their immediate release from Stewart Detention Center (SDC), an Immigration...

Federal Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Family Torn Apart by Trump Administration鈥檚 Separation Policy

January 22, 2021

TUCSON 鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a father and son who were forcibly separated by government officials for two months...

人兽性交 Responds to Administration鈥檚 Discontinuation of Remain in Mexico Policy

January 21, 2021

WASHINGTON 鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) responded to the Biden administration鈥檚 announcement of the discontinuation of the Remain in Mexico policy going forward. The following statement is from Melissa Crow, Senior...

Jalaya Liles Dunn and Susan Corke Join 人兽性交 to Lead Education and Anti-Hate Work

January 19, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� Human rights leaders Susan Corke and Jalaya Liles Dunn join the Southern Poverty Law Center today to lead two internationally renowned projects aimed at combating hate and extremism in communities across the...

Court Blocks Trump Administration Attempt to Thwart Court Order Protecting Asylum Seekers

January 18, 2021

Today, a federal court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the Trump administration鈥檚 latest attempt to prevent asylum seekers from accessing the U.S. asylum process. The order blocks a rule, issued in December...

人兽性交鈥檚 Civil Rights Memorial Center Hosts Live Virtual MLK Event

January 15, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC), a Montgomery-based interpretive center for the modern civil rights movement, hosted a live virtual event today commemorating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The...

人兽性交鈥檚 Lecia Brooks Responds to Arrest of Insurrectionist who Brought a Confederate Flag into the Capitol

January 15, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC 鈥� Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the arrest of the man who carried the Confederate flag into the Capitol during the insurrection on January 6. 鈥淛ust as defeated...

Charlotte Man Faces Deportation by Obscure, Racist Immigration Law

January 14, 2021

CHARLOTTE, N.C. 鈥� Deportation is imminent for 44-year-old Kelvin Silva, a long-time resident and valued community member of Charlotte. Attorneys say Silva, who is currently in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...

鈥楢dopted with the intent to discriminate鈥�: Florida Advocates and Leading Expert Witness Conclude Testimony Challenging Florida鈥檚 Racist, Anti-immigrant Law

January 14, 2021

MIAMI 鈥� Acclaimed U.S. historian Allan J. Lichtman appeared in trial as an expert witness in the legal challenge to Florida鈥檚 anti-sanctuary law, or S.B. 168, testifying that the legislation was designed in close collaboration...

人兽性交: Trump鈥檚 Reckless Border Trip Must Be Cancelled

January 11, 2021

ALAMO, Texas 鈥� In response to the president鈥檚 planned visit to the border on Tuesday, Efr茅n Olivares, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement. 鈥淔or...

Hearing begins Monday to challenge retaliation against plaintiffs in Florida solitary confinement lawsuit

January 10, 2021

Tallahassee, Fla. 鈥� A five-day evidentiary hearing begins Monday in Harvard v. Inch . on Plaintiffs鈥� motion for a protective order asking the court to stop retaliation, chilling or harassing conduct against people who are...

Immigrant Rights Advocates Ask Court to Block Trump Administration Attempt to Thwart Court Order

January 07, 2021

SAN DIEGO 鈥� Immigrant rights advocates moved for a temporary restraining order to block the Trump administration鈥檚 latest attempt to circumvent an earlier court order prohibiting the government from applying an asylum ban to...

人兽性交: President Trump鈥檚 Quest to Steal the Election Endangers Lives at the Capitol

January 06, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥� At President Trump鈥檚 prodding, thousands of extremists have stormed the Capitol complex in Washington D.C. to prevent lawmakers from certifying President-elect Joe Biden鈥檚 victory in the 2020 election. Lecia...

Southern Poverty Law Center denounces lack of justice in Jacob Blake case

January 06, 2021

KENOSHA, Wis. 鈥揈arlier today, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced that the police officers responsible for shooting Jacob Blake in the back will not face criminal charges. Two officers fired seven shots at...

Georgians sue to stop extreme delays in state unemployment process

January 06, 2021

ATLANTA 鈥� Multiple Georgia residents have filed a lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) and its commissioner, Mark Butler, to compel the department to perform its duties under Georgia law to timely process...

人兽性交: Contested Congressional Certification of Presidential Election Today 鈥淒eeply Distressing Statement against Democracy and Elections鈥�

January 06, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The following statement about the certification today in the U.S. Congress of President-elect Joe Biden鈥檚 victory in the Electoral College is by Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law...

Ahead of January Trial, Federal Judge Strikes Down Provision of Florida鈥檚 Anti-Sanctuary Law

December 21, 2020

MIAMI 鈥� United States District Judge Beth Bloom has issued an order blocking Florida law enforcement agencies from transporting persons in their custody outside of their jurisdiction for the purpose of handing them over to...

人兽性交, ACLU of Georgia File Amicus Brief on behalf of AME Church, Other Voting Rights Organizations in RNC Lawsuit Concerning Dropbox Hours in Runoff Elections

December 17, 2020

ATLANTA 鈥� Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) and ACLU of Georgia, representing the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and other interested parties, filed an amicus curiae brief urging the Superior Court of Fulton...

人兽性交 Marks Five-year Anniversary of Groundbreaking Suit Finding Gay 鈥淐onversion鈥� Program Unconscionable and聽Fraudulent

December 17, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. 鈥� Tomorrow is the five-year anniversary of the settlement in Michael Ferguson, et al., v. JONAH , a first-of-its-kind lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) and co-counsel partners on behalf...

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