Margaret Huang

SPLC Union demands removal of CEO Huang

The union is also asking leadership to negotiate a reversal of recent layoffs.

Jacob Holmes

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September 10, 2024

SPLC turns 50, charts course for the future

On Friday evening, the organization celebrated its 50th anniversary by hosting an event focused on its course for the next 50 years.

Jacob Holmes

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October 24, 2022

SPLC Action Fund launches new PACs to recruit progressive candidates throughout South

The PACs are targeted at supporting candidates to run for local-level elections that are often uncontested against incumbents.

Jacob Holmes

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September 14, 2022

SPLC president welcomes Biden’s order advancing racial equity

President Joe Biden's order also rescinds Trump’s 1776 Commission, seen as a rebuttal to the Pulitzer-Prize-winning 1619 project.

Eddie Burkhalter

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January 22, 2021

SPLC’s Margaret Huang receives civil rights award at Washington Film Festival

The March on Washington Film Festival this week awarded Southern Poverty Law Center President Margaret Huang an award for her work with the Montgomery-based foundation. The festival honored Huang at its awards gala Monday night. In addition to Huang, the festival honored the late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, who died this summer. … Continued

Brandon Moseley

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September 22, 2020

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a champion of women’s rights and voter protections on the nation’s highest court — died Friday at the age of 87 from complications from metastatic pancreas cancer. The justice died at her home in Washington D.C., surrounded by family. Only the second woman ever to be … Continued

Eddie Burkhalter

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September 19, 2020

SPLC urges Congress to pass the “NO BAN Act”

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s president and CEO, Margaret Huang, sent a letter to all members of Congress, urging representatives to support the “National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act” — or the “NO BAN Act” — which is scheduled for a vote in the U.S. House on Wednesday. “The unnecessary, cruel entry bans have dramatically … Continued

Brandon Moseley

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July 21, 2020

Pastor and Civil Rights leader C. T. Vivian has died

Martin Luther King Jr. called Vivian “the greatest preacher to ever live.”

Brandon Moseley

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July 18, 2020

Sewell commends House for passage of law enforcement reform bill

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed by a vote of 236-181 the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act. Congresswoman Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, commended the passage and urged her Senate colleagues to pass the bill. “Tens of thousands of Americans have taken to the streets in the past few weeks demanding racial justice and … Continued

Brandon Moseley

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June 26, 2020