Hatewatch Headlines 4/11/18

Media Matters: A deputy communications director at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is placed on administrative leave after revelations about her racist activities.

Oregonian: A homeless man fatally shot last weekend by police in Portland, Oregon, was once a member of European Kindred, a prison-based white supremacy gang.

New York Times: Nostalgia for Rhodesia’s racist past is a new, subtle form of racist messaging.

University of Warwick: A study shows the rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes since Donald Trump's election has been concentrated in U.S. counties with high Twitter usage.

Washington Post: A historical look at the preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan.

New York Post: White supremacist propaganda is turning up inside boxes of diapers and an investigation is underway.

Tennessean: A man in Nashville, Tennessee, has been indicted for a hate crime after allegedly yelling insults at two teenage girls wearing hijabs and attacking their father.

ABC10-TV (Miami): Four suspects surrendered to police Tuesday, two days after a gay couple was attacked following the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade.

Cleveland Jewish News: A prominent Jewish philanthropist disavows anti-Muslim videos promoted by an organization he financially supported.

WTOP-TV (Oswego, N.Y.): Maryland lawmakers overwhelmingly approve changes to the state’s hate crime law, broadenings its use by prosecutors.

Right Wing Watch: Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo is expected to be grilled about his ties to anti-Muslim activists when he appears Thursday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Chronicle of Higher Education:Textbook racism: How scholars sustained white supremacy.