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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump excited white nationalists on Wednesday when he announced that his administration would look into farm seizures and the “large-scale killing” of white farmers in South Africa. The issue has been promoted by right-wing groups and white supremacists around the world, and Trump took his cue from Fox News host […]
Heavy police presence is seen in the center of the US capital as crowds of anti-nationalists protesters have gathered to protest Unite the Right Rally one year after Charlottesville clashes. Some 300 people have gathered in Lafayette Park in Washington DC to oppose a white nationalist rally that is scheduled in the US capital on […]
In 2016, researchers found more than 900 hate groups operating in the US, with over 100 of them having a presence on Twitter. Twitter has declared a ban on them and last month the purge began. But Twitter also got heat for doing it wrong when it banned a satire site. Ex-NSA analyst Emily Crose has been […]
Enlarge / Taylor Swift performing onstage in Houston, Texas. (credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for DIRECTV) Lawyers representing pop star Taylor Swift sent a cease-and-desist letter to a politics and culture blog, demanding the retraction of an article tying Swift to white supremacist culture. But instead of removing the article, PopFront editor Meghan Herning called the […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Members of California’s Rise Above Movement got into violent altercations during the protests in Charlottesville and Berkeley. But police aren’t charging them with crimes, an investigation from ProPublica found. So the outlet has identified several white nationalists, revealing who they are to the world. White nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia and Berkeley, […]
Robert Cutts/flickr This past Sunday, the Mormon church released an official statement expressing “sadness and deep concern” over violence surrounding white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville over the weekend. The statement was firm but vague, condemning racism and intolerance in general terms. Two days later, however, the church updated its statement with what one historian at […]
Enlarge / Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., USA on August 11, 2017. Photos of marchers are being used to identify and shame them on social media. (credit: Zach D […]
Joshua Roberts/Reuters Social media users have taken to outing protesters who over the weekend participated in a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that quickly turned violent and raised the national consciousness about the rise of the “alt-right” and racism in the U.S. In the aftermath of the “Unite the Right” rally and a counter-protest […]
AP Walmart CEO Doug McMillon has criticized President Trump for failing to “unequivocally” reject white supremacists in the aftermath of their violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together […]
Virginia Governor Terry R. McAuliffe blamed “white supremacists and the Nazis” for sowing hatred at Charlottesville rally, calling on them to “go home” after three people died and 35 were injured in clashes, a car ramming incident and a police helicopter crash. READ MORE: ‘It was an intentional attack’: Eyewitness describes deadly Charlottesville car plowing […]
