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Are These Some of the White Supremacists Who Assaulted Deandre Harris in Charlottesville, Va.?
Updated Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, 7:12 p.m. EDT: It looks as though the internet has identified one of the assailants involved in the beating of Deandre Harris as Daniel (Dan) Borden from Mason, Ohio. Earlier: When it comes to sleuthing, nothing beats the keen eyes of people on the internet. And after this weekend’s neo-Nazi…
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Interview: 20-Year-Old Deandre Harris Speaks Out About Being Assaulted by White Supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.
Twenty-year-old aspiring hip-hop artist Deandre Harris moved to Charlottesville, Va., from Suffolk, Va., two years ago for a job opportunity as an instructional assistant in the special education program at a local high school. But nothing could prepare him for what he experienced Saturday afternoon, when he took part in a counterprotest against the Unite…
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Maybe Now Isn’t the Time, Guys
If you’re tempted to point out that you’re one of the good ones right now … please don’t. If you are upset that people of color are upset that their lives and beliefs are under assault by a resurgent, resilient, citronella-candle-filled white supremacist movement, empowered by a White House that can’t call a racist a…
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White Supremacists Beat Black Man With Poles in Charlottesville, Va., Parking Garage
An unidentified group of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., attacked and beat a black man with poles in a parking garage. The photo above, which was taken and posted to Twitter by Zach D. Roberts, a writer and photographer with Nation of Change, captures the violence that occurred during Saturday’s “Unite the Right” white supremacist…
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James Alex Fields Jr. Identified as Alleged Terrorist Who Plowed Through Crowd in Charlottesville, Va., Anti-Racism Rally
On Saturday afternoon, a car plowed through a crowd of anti-racism protesters, killing one and injuring several others, in Charlottesville, Va. Several hours later, a suspect was arrested and is now being held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Twenty-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., of Maumee, Ohio, was charged with one count of second-degree murder, three…