The appointment of Baynes-Dunning, a former judge in the juvenile court and the federal court-appointed monitor of the reform efforts at the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services, is a critical step in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s leadership shift.
As the Wizard of Oz reminds us, sometimes it pays for a nonprofit board to take a look behind the curtain.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has fired its founder and chief trial counsel, Morris Dees. No specific reasons were given, but the SPLC has released a statement about its commitment to a just and inclusive workplace culture that raises some questions.
The Nobel Prize in Economics medal awarded to Thomas Schelling in 2005 was auctioned, following his death and according to his wishes, with proceeds donated to battle racial and social injustices.
The FBI and Southern Poverty Law Center both released reports in August on the rise of Black Nationalism in response to the rise of white supremacy and police shootings of black people. The FBI report, however, seems seriously misdirected.
The giving and the blocking of money has become a modern-day vehicle for activism, and it is now being leveraged in the U.S. fight for the public square.
GuideStar flagged 46 nonprofits as hate groups on its site by way of a banner advising that they were so designated by Southern Poverty Law Center. Evidently, it was unprepared for the backlash. On Friday, it took the banners down.
In a move that was surprising to many, GuideStar has flagged dozens of nonprofits as hate groups on its famously neutral website.
The legacy of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia lives on through donations to combat hate crimes, financed by the sale of one of his prized guitars.
An effort to collect and verify reports of hate throughout the U.S. is becoming into a valuable national resource reflecting troubling trends.
