The Southern Poverty Law Center had a highly successful year in 2015. We won justice for exploited workers, schoolchildren subjected to shocking cruelty, poor people thrown into modern-day debtors’ prisons, and many others.Â
The far-right backlash against our civil rights progress reaches the U.S. Supreme Court this week with two critically important cases that could dramatically set back efforts to achieve racial equality in our nation.
As we reflect on Rosa Parks’ historic act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, we must recognize change comes only when people of conscience come together and demand justice.
They were sentenced to die in 1973 for a rape they didn't commit, but found freedom after Morris Dees and the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ took on the racially charged North Carolina case.
Nearly 300,000 visitors have passed through the doors of the center created by the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ to deepen people’s understanding of the civil rights movement.
The World Congress of Families (WCF) is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia and sexism.Â
ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ founder is only the fourth recipient of award that has honored judges and advocates across the world – and the first since 2007.
They came from across the country to remember one of the nation’s most eloquent and passionate voices for justice.
This week the state of Alabama, which requires a photo ID to vote, announced that it would be closing driver’s license offices in 31 locations.
The brutal mass killing at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College has the earmarks of a classic hate crime – all indications are that the shooter selected his victims on the basis of their religion.
