Southern Poverty Law Center

The demands by student activists face what could be an insurmountable obstacle: security fears in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting.

New state policies born out of the Parkland school shooting have drawn the scrutiny of two national nonprofit research organizations, which have argued...

Florida is an “outlier” in prison systems across the nation when it comes to the use of solitary confinement, according to a 90-page federal lawsuit...

A civil rights group is highlighting the role of social media in the lives of people who commit acts of violence- like the shooting at a yoga studio in...

There's little doubt that America is becoming more diverse.Perhaps nowhere is that more evident than in the nation's public schools. But differences can…

Many people considered the rhetoric during 2016 campaign cycle brutal. After voters elected Donald Trump as president, the Southern Poverty Law Center...

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into the “disproportionate discipline” of black students and students with disabilities at…

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports there are currently 784 hate groups nationwide. Those groups can be anything from Ku Klux Klan to neo-Nazis to...

Today's rain has brought flooding to much of the Tampa Bay area. Some people have had to abandon cars in the road. Florida Highway Patrol, Public...