Since early last year, the far-right groups Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys have held more than a dozen rallies throughout the Pacific Northwest under the banner of “freedom” — and with talk of bringing weapons and declarations that “this is war,” members are threatening to make next weekend’s march the most combustible yet.
The U.S. Department of Justice has reopened the unsolved murder case of Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago who was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi.
A new referendum will give Oregon residents the chance to vote on whether to repeal the state’s decades-old sanctuary law come November.
Kessler’s anniversary plans fold up in court; Infowars host friendly to white nationalists; Twitter freaks out the far right with its filters; and more.
Harold Covington, the founder of a white separatist group who once claimed that Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine people in South Carolina was “a preview of coming attractions,” has died. He was 64.
As the first anniversary of Unite the Right approached, Charlottesville festers with high tensions and uncertainty as to what might happen on August 11 and 12.
First, the question was “Where’s Jason Kessler?”
Neo-Confederate activist Olaf O. Childress, 85, of Silverhill, Alabama, died on July 20.
Immediately after the deadly “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August 11 and 12, far-fetched conspiracy theories blossomed on the internet.
Jason Kessler, a racist white rights advocate, dropped a request for a judge to force Charlottesville, Virginia, to grant permission to hold a rally on August 11.
