Tag: Richard Cohen
High-profile firing adds to troubles for Montgomery’s SPLC
The high-profile firing of the co-founder of a liberal group best known for monitoring hate organizations is only the latest trouble for...
Judge: Alabama has been ‘indifferent’ to isolated inmates
A federal judge said Monday that Alabama has been “deliberately indifferent” about monitoring the mental health of state inmates placed in the isolation of...
Advocacy group: Alabama has prison suicide crisis
An advocacy group charged Friday that Alabama officials have failed to address a rising suicide rate in state prisons despite a federal court order...
SPLC apologizes, pays $3.3M to Islamic reformer it wrongly labeled ‘anti-Muslim...
The Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Monday announced a settlement agreement with Islamic reformer Maajid Nawaz and his organization, the Quilliam Foundation, for wrongly...
SPLC says 1,500 gov’t-funded Confederate symbols remain across U.S.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says more than a thousand taxpayer-funded symbols of the Confederacy persist on the American landscape.
The left-leaning social justice and Civil Rights...
Roy Moore denies defying U.S. Supreme Court
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore - ousted from office a decade ago when he refused to remove a Ten Commandments monument from state property...