Nearly three years ago, the League of the South abandoned the Confederate Battle Flag (CBF) in favor of a blacked-out adaptation created by a former member. A recent blog post by League president Michael Hill titled “Past, Present, and Future” attempts to rationalize the group’s reversal of their stance on the CBF and to qualify their use of the new flag alongside the Confederacy’s vaunted icon as part of a larger, deliberate shift towards “Southern Nationalism.”
Four months after he was filmed shoving a black protester at a rally for Donald Trump in Louisville, white nationalist Matthew Heimbach and two others face criminal charges.
A demonstration during their annual conference in Wetumpka may have given the impression that the League of the South’s leadership has gained control of their rowdier members; a run-in with Montgomery’s LGBT community shows otherwise.
White racist extremists reacted to the killings of five police officers during a peaceful protest in Dallas, Tex., by predicting a race war.
The Council for National Policy, a highly secretive group, is a key venue where mainstream conservatives and extremists mix.
Protestors clash with attendees of Confederate Memorial Day celebrations in Alabama.
After being indoctrinated online into the world of white supremacy and inspired by a racist hate group, Dylann Roof told friends he wanted to start a “race war.” Someone had to take “drastic action” to take back America from “stupid and violent” African Americans, he wrote.
A second former student at the University of Mississippi has confessed to his involvement in hanging a rope and a Georgia state Confederate flag on a campus statue of James Meredith, the first black student to attend Ole Miss.
After a massacre in South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag came under attack — and thousands of its supporters fought back
Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler took his complaints about the removal of the portrait of Gov. George Wallace from the Statehouse all the way to the neo-Confederate League of the South
