Southern Poverty Law Center

In his decades-long career, Corey Wiggins has worn many hats. He taught classes on public health policy at several universities, directed the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP and served as vice president of a Deep South credit union. For the last four years, he worked to strengthen economic development as the federally appointed co-chair […]

A dangerous myth exists today that acknowledging the history of slavery and the oppression and resistance of Black people is anti-American.

The Georgia state office is part of the SPLC’s strategy of working in partnership with local communities in Deep South states.

Our work to prevent youth radicalization uses a public health approach. Our work aims to strengthen resilient communities, not just resilient individuals.

Since leaving President Donald Trump’s administration, Gregory Bovino, former commander at large for the U.S. Border Patrol, is embracing a new audience of hard-right extremist groups in the U.S. and Europe to further his mass deportation agenda. No longer tethered to the U.S. government, Bovino is using rhetoric that aligns with the hard-right movements he […]

The SPLC worked with research fellows to examine issues to help us better understand the community needs of people across the South.

Content warning: This story includes distressing accounts of suicide and self-harm. Reader discretion is advised. The night before he reportedly died by suicide in early May in an Alabama prison, Jeffery Floyd asked correctional officers for help. He received none. Floyd was housed in a structured living unit at Donaldson Correctional Facility. In this […]

STNDRD Bearer is the Southern Poverty Law Center Mississippi state office’s signature Black male civic engagement initiative.

The Concord Fund was part of a network of entities that reportedly move “dark money” in elections to the judiciary to advance right-wing causes and judges.

Brothers Tristan and Andrew Tate were arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service and await extradition to the U.K. for rape and other charges.