Dennis McGiffin is certainly putting the black in the Black & Silver Solution. On the eve of the group’s fall conference in Scottsboro, Ala., this weekend, questions again have surfaced about the ideological purity of Black & Silver leadership. Amid rampant dissension in the ranks, doubts about the group’s future are growing.

Charles A. Weisman, a prolific author and publisher of materials about the anti-Semitic theology known as Christian Identity, died on Oct. 8, according to an announcement made by fellow Identity minister Ted R. Weiland. 

Matthew Heimbach, head of the white nationalist and anti-Semitic Traditionalist Worker’s Party, has always been a movement gadfly. Neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, Klansmen –– there hasn’t been a racist or nationalist group with which he will not ally –– no matter what. But a fixture at Hammerfest?