April 20, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) filed a public records request with the Florida Department of Education this week seeking all records relat ed to their recent rejection of 54 math textbooks that they...
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April 15, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rose Murray, an attorney with the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI) of the Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement responding to today’s...
April 15, 2022
JACKSON, MS.- The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) Mississippi State Director Waikinya Clanton released the following statement condemning Governor Tate Reeves proclamation of Confederate Heritage Month. “Despite every effort...
April 12, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±), unveiled the Blank Slate Monument, created by Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo , to the Alabama community earlier...
April 08, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, a jury acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, two of the four hard-right militia extremists charged in the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. The jury was deadlocked...
April 07, 2022
Montgomery, Ala. — The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement on today’s historic confirmation of  Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson  as the 116th Associate Justice of the U...
April 01, 2022
ATLANTA – Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director of the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement in response to the announcement by the Department of Homeland Security (...
March 31, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today a federal court sided with Harriett Tubman Freedom Fighters (HTFF) in HTFF v. Laurel Lee , ruling that Florida’s S.B. 90 infringed on its right to free speech when the state forced the organization to...
March 29, 2022
OWENSBORO, Ky. – Yesterday afternoon, the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) raised a billboard in support of the Owensboro NAACP Branch 3107, whose advocacy led the Daviess County Fiscal Court to unanimously vote to remove its...
March 28, 2022
ATLANTA – The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) responded to the announcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that they will be closing the infamous Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Ala., and limiting the...
March 24, 2022
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – After a years-long fight, the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) client and renowned journalist Manuel Duran has won his asylum case. Duran was arrested in April 2018 while covering a Memphis protest focused on...
March 23, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, FL -- On Tuesday, the Jacksonville City Council voted to pass new Council and School Board maps that dilute Black voting power and further divide communities. The Council map packs more than half of the city’s Black...
March 09, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – According to the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021 report released today: hate and antigovernment extremism have gone mainstream, infecting the national and political...
March 08, 2022
MONTGOMERY – The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined an appeal by Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) and its founders Arthur Goldberg and Elaine Berk, the conversion therapy providers who were barred from...
March 04, 2022
MIAMI – The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) issued the following statement by Anne Janet Hernandez Anderson, a Senior Supervising Attorney with the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s Immigrant Justice Project, regarding the late-night passage of SB1808...
February 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 280 immigrants’ and human rights organizations today delivered a letter to the Biden Administration calling for an immediate designation of temporary protected status (TPS) for Cameroon, in light of...
February 25, 2022
Montgomery, Ala. —The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) President and CEO Margaret Huang released the following statement on President Biden’s historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the next Justice of the...
February 25, 2022
Atlanta, GA (February 25, 2022) — Across the region, Southerners are ringing the alarm about persistent attacks on communities of color during the redistricting process. In Georgia, state lawmakers stand out for their egregious...
February 23, 2022
Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman held in a men’s prison in Georgia, continued her legal battle for protection from the ongoing sexual abuse she endures, by renewing her request last night for a federal court to order her...
February 22, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On February 15, Kelvin Silva, a 45-year-old North Carolina resident, was deported to the Dominican Republic by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under an outdated and discriminatory immigration...
February 17, 2022
Tallahassee, FL – The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) held a hearing Thursday afternoon to get feedback on a proposed rule change that would make it difficult to impossible for incarcerated people to speak with lawyers...
February 10, 2022
ATLANTA – The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) and the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) announced that the first Lynn Walker Huntley Social Justice Fellowship has been awarded to Harvard Law School student Harry Chiu. The...
February 10, 2022
ATLANTA – Today the Georgia State Senate passed new maps for the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners with a new, predominantly White voting-age population district. The current Gwinnett County Commission is comprised entirely...
February 04, 2022
MONTGOMERY – Margaret Huang, the President and CEO of the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±), released the following statement in response to recent developments around bomb threats to several of our nation’s Historically Black...
February 04, 2022
ATLANTA – Efrén C. Olivares, Deputy Legal Director of the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±â€™s (°Ä²Ê¿ª½±) Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement regarding Folkston Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Processing...
