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The effects of the DOGE chainsaw are already seen on the U.S. populace by slashing crucial safety nets while the enriching ...
With reductions in funding across the agricultural sector, small farms that rely on federal grants are especially at risk.
Throughout the Deep South, discriminatory housing, education, employment and health care systems perpetuate poverty and hinder generational wealth accumulation, leaving many communities among the ...
Our focus states — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi — are home to some of the highest rates of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and poor health outcomes in the nation. Federal ...
Content warning: This article contains references to graphic antisemitic, racist, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ+ language. Reader discretion is advised. A former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter turned ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, House Republicans passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a bill that would limit the voting power of women, Black and Latino, young and rural voters and ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center is honored to stand alongside the Rights Restoration Coalition of Georgia to celebrate a meaningful step forward: the Georgia State Senate’s passage of SR 429. This ...
LAFAYETTE, La. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a motion to intervene in Louisiana v. U.S. Department of Commerce on behalf of the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWV ...
President Donald Trump’s pardons and commutations for nearly 1,600 people after the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol siege sent many hard-right extremists back onto the street. Some of them are looking for ...