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.
