The Southern Poverty Law Center today announced a new project that will enlist and train lawyers to provide free legal representation to immigrants who have been detained in the Southeast and are facing deportation proceedings.
This new executive order banning travelers from six Muslim countries continues to be President Trump’s promised Muslim ban dressed in facially neutral language.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis led a gathering of congressional and civil rights leaders in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Civil Rights Memorial today to honor those who lost their lives in the struggle for civil rights.
Atlanta Immigration Court judges are failing to uphold ethical standards that ensure immigrants receive fair and impartial treatment – failures that warrant an investigation, according to the findings of a project by the Southern Poverty Law Center ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ and Emory University School of Law.
Last night, President Donald Trump once again insisted that the immigrants he is targeting for deportation are criminals.
A Georgia judge this week sentenced a man and woman to prison for their roles in terrorizing African Americans during a rally in which they cruised around a rural area in a convoy of pickup trucks adorned with Confederate flags.
Proposed changes to a cultural exchange program used by thousands of foreign college students who spend the summer living and working in the United States do not go far enough to protect them from exploitation, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in comments submitted to the U.S. State Department today.
The Trump administration tonight showed a few more of its true colors, and they are decidedly not the colors of the rainbow.
The number of hate groups in the United States rose for a second year in a row in 2016 as the radical right was energized by the candidacy of Donald Trump, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½) annual census of hate groups and other extremist organizations, released today.
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s project announced today the recipients of 11 research fellowships as part of a multi-year initiative to improve the teaching of slavery in K-12 schools across the nation.
