Jury awards $2.5 million in case of teen beaten by Klansmen
The Southern Poverty Law Center won a crushing jury verdict against one of the nation's largest Klan groups for its role in the brutal beating of a teenager at a county fair in rural Kentucky.
Southern Poverty Law Center Founder Morris Dees and SPLC President Richard Cohen will host a webcast this Friday on the trial against the Imperial Klans of America, following the $2.5 million verdict against the leader of the IKA.
Working with a California law firm, the Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a brief calling for the state's Supreme Court to maintain the right to same-sex marriage.
In the new issue of the Intelligence Report, the racist fringe of the growing black Hebrew Israelite movement is explored; anti-Semitism spreads on college campuses; the American Legion releases an anti-immigration booklet replete with xenophobic falsehoods; and a religious movement known as Joel's Army breaks from mainline Pentecostal churches to embrace a militant theocratic ideology.
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