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PHOENIX – The Southern Poverty Law Center (ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½), Covington & Burling, and Coppersmith Brockelman filed an amended federal lawsuit today adding four additional migrant families to the filing who were separated from their...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s four-page memo that calls for expanded diversity within the military, but omits any...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½) today released an update to its Whose Heritage? report which tracks symbols of the Confederacy on public land across the United States: Total number of Confederate symbols...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – On Tuesday night, July 14, during a board meeting of the Montgomery Public Schools, a group of alumni, students and community members will call on members to eliminate Confederate iconography and rename...

Tallahassee, Fla.- As Florida officials continue resisting efforts to significantly reduce the prison population and have been slow to publicly reveal their plans for handling a coronavirus outbreak in prisons, the 28th person...

WASHINGTON — Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) commends the Attorneys General of several states for filing a lawsuit yesterday to block the Trump Administration’s attempt to divert critically needed emergency federal funds from...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½) issued the following statement by Julia Solórzano, staff attorney with the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the settlement which forces an East Tennessee...

(July 6, 2020 – Montgomery, Ala.) – Today children’s rights advocates sent a letter of concern urging leaders in Alabama to take sweeping and immediate action to protect foster youth placed in facilities operated by Sequel Youth...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday signed into law Senate Bill 664, an expansion of Florida’s E-Verify policy. The new law requires Florida’s public employers, including municipalities, local governments, and any...

Tallahassee, Fla. — ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Action Fund Managing Attorney, Children’s Rights, Bacardi Jackson released the statement below after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reappropriated over $41 million dollars from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas...