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White Supremacist Groups Are Targeting College Students as Recruits: Report
Well, maybe this will explain why we’ve seen a seeming uptick in racist incidents at college campuses across the nation. According to analysis by the Anti-Defamation League, groups that the organization identifies as white supremacist are really pushing their agenda on college campuses, aiming to recruit students at the institutions and plaster their messages across…
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Dylann Roof Gives Brief Statement During Sentencing Phase of Trial
Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who was convicted of killing nine parishioners in a shooting at a historically black Charleston, S.C., church, did not ask jurors to spare his life or to give him the death penalty while giving a brief opening statement during his sentencing trial, the Associated Press reports. Instead, Roof told jurors…
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White Supremacist Doesn't Understand What the 'N' in NAACP Means; Gets Dragged on Twitter
White supremacist leader Preston Wiginton is a genius racist, but that’s where his genius ends. On Wednesday the Texas A&M University student newspaper, The Battalion, reported comments made by Wiginton in which the racist says he wants to create a WAACP. “If we want to have a white state, or a white community or a…
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After Months of Spouting White Nationalist Sentiments, Trump Denounces Alt-Right
President-elect Donald Trump, who spent his entire campaign spouting white nationalist rhetoric, has once again tried to distance himself from the hate-filled groups. White supremacists, who have tried to rebrand themselves as the “alt-right,” have been praising Trump’s victory as a plus for their agenda, the Associated Press reports. “I disavow and condemn them,” Trump…
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Iowa Man Convicted of a Racially Motivated Hate Crime Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
An Iowa white supremacist who brutally beat a black man in a Dubuque, Iowa, bar last year has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for what a federal judge slammed as a “brutal and outrageous attack,” the Washington Post reports. “This vicious attack threatened the most basic standards of human decency and dignity,” Deputy Assistant…
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Ore. Man Accused of Intentionally Running Over Black Teen Faces Hate Crime Charges
An Oregon man and his girlfriend are now facing new hate crime charges after they allegedly intentionally ran over a black teen, killing him, following an altercation in a convenience store parking lot, the Associated Press reports. Russell Courtier, 38, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of first- and second-degree intimidation in the death of…
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Man Accused of Running Over, Killing Black Teen Is Linked to White Supremacist Prison Gang: Cops
Investigators say that that an Oregon man accused of running over a black teen and killing him is associated with a white supremacist prison gang, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, police are not sure what started the fight between Russell Courtier and Larnell Bruce or why, according to authorities, Courtier chased the…
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White Lives Matter Classified as a Hate Group
White Lives Matter, a white nationalist group that opposes the Black Lives Matter movement, has been declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps track of extremist groups in the nation, the New York Times reports. “The White Lives Matter website says their movement is dedicated to the preservation of the…
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Why The White Supremacist With FUBU Sneakers Is The Blackest Thing I've Ever Seen This Week
An irony of the pseudo-citizen status often bestowed on American Blacks is the fact that we’re unquestionably and intrinsically American. We’ve been in America longer than America has been America and have been as vital to America’s current success as any other group of people. And, despite numerous legal, social, economic, and spiritual attempts to prevent…