On the early morning of Thursday February 25th, a police officer shot and killed unarmed Greg Gunn in west Montgomery, Alabama.Â
On the early morning of Thursday February 25th, a police officer shot and killed unarmed Greg Gunn in west Montgomery, Alabama.Â
Harper Lee died today.
Last month, the New Orleans City Council voted to take down four monuments honoring the Confederacy and its heroes, resulting in a federal court challenge by preservation groups and a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The Southern Poverty Law Center had a highly successful year in 2015. We won justice for exploited workers, schoolchildren subjected to shocking cruelty, poor people thrown into modern-day debtors’ prisons, and many others.Â
The far-right backlash against our civil rights progress reaches the U.S. Supreme Court this week with two critically important cases that could dramatically set back efforts to achieve racial equality in our nation.
As we reflect on Rosa Parks’ historic act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, we must recognize change comes only when people of conscience come together and demand justice.
They were sentenced to die in 1973 for a rape they didn't commit, but found freedom after Morris Dees and the ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» took on the racially charged North Carolina case.
Nearly 300,000 visitors have passed through the doors of the center created by the ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» to deepen people’s understanding of the civil rights movement.
The World Congress of Families (WCF) is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia and sexism.Â
ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» founder is only the fourth recipient of award that has honored judges and advocates across the world – and the first since 2007.
All donations to the ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» are matched dollar for dollar through Dec. 31.