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June 10, 2020
Washington, DC. — ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Action President and CEO Margaret Huang released the below statement ahead of today’s U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement: “Our nation’s policing system...
June 09, 2020
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½) Interim Deputy Legal Director for LGBTQ Rights & Special Litigation Scott McCoy released the following statement after the Jacksonville City Council voted to preserve...
June 09, 2020
Read ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½'s report "Whose Heritage: Public Symbols of the Confederacy." MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½) sent letters to the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the...
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The three military veterans marched through the woods near Lake Mead, about 25 miles southeast of the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas strip. Their intended destination: a park ranger station at the National Recreation Area.
June 09, 2020
ATLANTA - The following statement on reports of problems in Georgia's in-person primary elections is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Georgia’s in-person primary elections are turning...
June 09, 2020
Montgomery, Alabama -- COVID-19 cases are continuing to rise in Alabama. But despite that fact, state leaders are going forward with a plan to reopen the state. To accomplish a successful recovery Alabamians must have confidence...
June 09, 2020
ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½) announced today that it reached a $300,000 settlement with Wayne Farms, one of the nation’s biggest poultry producers, on behalf of three people with disabilities who alleged...
June 08, 2020
Montgomery, Alabama -- Today, members of Congress unveiled a new police reform bill — The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 — that would ban chokeholds like the one that killed George Floyd, end the use of no-knock warrants in drug...
