The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:00 pm
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... 57NK7kmWZQ
https://www.al.com/news/2019/03/splc-pr ... signs.html
Not sure who all else has been following the SPLC developments. There are a few more stories at al.com if anyone cares to read them.
Richard Cohen, the SPLC president, has also resigned.But nothing was more uncomfortable than the racial dynamic that quickly became apparent: a fair number of what was then about a hundred employees were African-American, but almost all of them were administrative and support staff—“the help,” one of my black colleagues said pointedly. The “professional staff”—the lawyers, researchers, educators, public-relations officers, and fund-raisers—were almost exclusively white. Just two staffers, including me, were openly gay.
https://www.al.com/news/2019/03/splc-pr ... signs.html
Not sure who all else has been following the SPLC developments. There are a few more stories at al.com if anyone cares to read them.