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2 Men Who Attacked DeAndre Harris in a Charlottesville Parking Garage Last Year Have Been Sentenced to Prison
The wheels of justice may move slowly, but sometimes they actually get us to the right destination. Today is one of those times. Two men who participated in a parking garage attack on a black man at a white nationalist rally last year in Charlottesville, Va., received their prison sentences in court Thursday. Jacob Scott…
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Jason Kessler and His Band of Racists Took 'Private' Metro KKKars to White Civil Rights Protest, Infuriating Union Group, D.C. Officials
A little over a week ago, it was announced that D.C.’s WMATA was flirting with the idea of providing separate trains to transport sentient tubs of lard to downtown D.C. where they’d protest near the White House on behalf of “white civil rights.” That idea was supposed to be nixed amidst protests, including from the…
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Breaking Hate: What a Former White Supremacist Says Will End Racism May Suprise You
We’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating—black people can’t rid white America of its cancerous racism—that’s going to be an inside job, by them, for them. As we mark the one-year anniversary of the bloody disaster that was the so-called Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., it behooves us to start…
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'White Civil Rights' Aren’t a Thing: Why Black People Are Protesting Unite the Right 2
On Aug. 12, white nationalists, fascists and their sympathizers will descend on Washington, D.C., for a “white civil rights” rally intended to terrorize black and brown residents. This rally is coming from the same white nationalists responsible for the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., where Heather Heyer was killed and dozens of…
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A Year After Unite the Right, Charlottesville Is Taking a Stand Against Media and 'Allies' Who Implicitly Support White Supremacy
Anxiety is high in Virginia as it approaches the one-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally, the “alt-right” violent protest that brought together all manner of white supremacists in Charlottesville. In anticipation of demonstrations—and subsequent clashes—marking the anniversary, including a Unite the Right 2 rally that will be held this weekend in Washington, D.C.,…
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A Year Later: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville Explores the Growing White Nationalist Movement in America
As the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville, Va., Unite the Right rally approaches, many still cannot wrap their minds around the hundreds if not thousands of white supremacist sympathizers who descended on a bucolic college town and wrecked violent havoc—one anti-racism protester was killed, dozens more were hospitalized—in the year of our Lord 2017. Many…
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Washington Metro Considers Giving Unite the Right Rally Participants Their Own Special KKK Express. Union Group Responds: Um, No
A follow-up to last year’s violent protests in Charlottesville, Va., the reconvening of white supremacists of various stripes for the upcoming Unite the Right 2 Rally in Washington, D.C. has law enforcement and civic agencies debating how best to keep rally attendees and counter-protesters safe. All of our rotten eggs will be in one racist…
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Trial of DeAndre Harris, Black Man Beaten During Charlottesville, Va., White Supremacist Rally, to Begin Friday
You may remember the story of DeAndre Harris. The black Charlottesville, Va., resident was brutally beaten and severely wounded by white supremacists in August in a parking garage attack during the Unite the Right rally. Well, despite the fact that Harris was the one who was viciously attacked and left with a broken wrist and…
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1st-Degree Murder Charge for Accused Charlottesville, Va., Car Plower
James Fields, the man accused of plowing his car into a crowd of counterprotesters during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., will face a new charge of first-degree murder. According to NBC News, prosecutors announced at the beginning of a preliminary trial hearing in Charlottesville on Thursday that they wanted to upgrade an initial…