Southern Poverty Law Center

Gov. Ron DeSantis has made some changes, but voting-rights groups say they're not enough

Civil and voting rights advocates say dangerous hurricanes have hampered Floridians' ability to register

More than 1,000 Florida residents were surveyed about their beliefs about public education, public school funding, and who should call the shots in the state’s public schools.

The move comes as President Donald Trump, the man who propelled DeSantis to the Governor’s Mansion, campaigns for reelection on a “law and order” platform.

A hundred years after women earned the right to vote, they’re now the fastest-growing group of people losing it. Part 4 of this series examining felon disenfranchisement looks at how and why women are being incarcerated, and how the issue affects Black women in particular.

While Florida lawmakers approved funding for the so-called Hope Scholarship program as part of the House budget proposal, bills creating the program are…

Legislation by a St. Augustine lawmaker targeting illegal immigrants convicted of certain crimes in Florida barely made it out of a senate committee…

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

Homeowners in one Crawfordville community found sixty plus Ku Klux Klan recruitment fliers in their neighborhood Sunday. It’s not the first such fliers…

A hate crime report compiled by the Florida Attorney General’s office shows a 22 percent statewide increase in hate crimes in one year. But hate crime…