The Southern Poverty Law Center joined two other organizations this week in urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release immediate guidance and precise criteria outlining how the department intends to implement the Supreme Court decision that allows the Muslim ban to take partial effect.
This weekend we’re featuring an op-ed by ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ President Richard Cohen in .
ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ President Richard Cohen testified today before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary about the obligation of universities to uphold not only the First Amendment rights of controversial speakers but to speak out against speech that threatens our democratic values.Â
The attack on members of Congress and their staffs today was a sickening and cowardly act of terror that must be condemned by everyone across the political spectrum. Any violent attack on our political leadership is an attack on our democracy.
A state law blocking Alabama cities from raising their minimum wage discriminates against black low-wage workers by preserving the racial pay gap – evidence that was not considered when a federal court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the law, according to an amicus brief filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Partnership for Working Families.
The moment seemed too surreal to believe.
Ten days ago, on the eve of a special election to fill Montana’s only U.S. House seat, GOP nominee Greg Gianforte was being pressed by a reporter.Â
The Southern Poverty Law Center will benefit from the $1.6 million raised at an auction at Brooklyn Bowl in New York City last night.
Every day, tens of thousands of people work in poultry plants gutting and slicing chicken carcasses zipping by at a rate up to 140 birds a minute.
The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 is not about preserving our state’s history, but about protecting Confederate monuments that celebrate white supremacy and a time in which an entire race was enslaved and oppressed.Â
State Rep. Karl Oliver should immediately resign from the Legislature and issue an apology.Â
