Someone painted a white supremacist symbol at the scene where fire ravaged a building tied to the civil rights movement, according to a statement from the Highlander Research and Education Center.
We’re proud to announce that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s board of directors has voted unanimously to name Karen Baynes-Dunning as our interim president and CEO.
The city council of Meridian, Mississippi, approved an agreement today with the ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» that will end the city’s practice of incarcerating residents who are unable to pay fines and fees, and to stop using secured money bail in misdemeanor cases.
A proposal by the U.S. Department of Commerce to include a new citizenship question in the 2020 census under the guise of enforcing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) threatened to undermine an accurate census by undercounting the communities the VRA was designed to protect. The ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» joined...
Rodney Lofton had never cast a ballot before a felony conviction stripped him of his voting rights in 2015.
Gab, best known for operating an online space where white supremacists organize, abruptly withdrew its request to sell stocks to finance the company.