Today in 1957, nine African American students were escorted by federal troops through a screaming white crowd into Little Rock Central High School, the culmination of a bitter desegregation battle. Though of course the harassment and abuse of the students continued long afterward.
On Tuesday, 23-year-old Ward, Arkansas resident and explicit white supremacist Jacob Goodwin was convicted by a jury of felony “malicious wounding” for attacking and severely injuring a black man in a Charlottesville, Virginia parking garage on August 12.
White supremacist revisionist history has been leaping off the page in elementary schools across the country lately. Just in the last couple months (and this is only what’s been reported, mind you) a middle school teacher at a Florida public school was unmasked as a white nationalist podcast host, a private school in…
On Tuesday, Judge Richard E. Moore of Charlottesville Circuit Court ruled that two Confederate statues must be uncovered from the tarps they’d been hidden under for the last six months.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—Late on the afternoon of February 23, nearing the end of CPAC, I found myself in a dark hotel room with an excited cluster of conservative college students who were waiting in line to chat with a Nazi.
Anyway, speaking of Joe Arpaio...
On Saturday, demonstrators from the white supremacist group Patriot Front walked up Burlington, Vermont’s Main Street and into City Hall Park, where they unrolled a sign reading, “Reclaim America.” In response, the city’s mayor said the group has “no place” in Burlington.
In Gabriel Sherman’s new profile of Steve Bannon for Vanity Fair, Bannon deflects the explicitly true suggestion that he has encouraged white supremacist and Nazi groups with an interesting anecdote.
Setting one potential example for how other states can treat the threat of white supremacy, Florida is treating the upcoming University of Florida visit by Richard Spencer as a state of emergency.
Can science please figure out a way for women to reproduce without the contributions of men? I feel like things would become significantly better for the world.
The FBI has arrested and charged 26-year-old John Edgar Rust for threatening to murder black students at Howard University in 2015, in a horribly racist incident which spread fear across the historically black college.
Just a PSA going out to all my young, budding journalists out there: InfoWars is hiring! Do you know your “five W’s?
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the single black Republican in the Senate, met with chewed-up action figure Donald Trump on Wednesday. The meeting was for Scott to express his displeasure with Trump’s disgraceful response to Charlottesville—in which Trump failed to condemn neo-Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists…
The great-great-great-great-nephew of General Robert E. Lee, Robert Wright Lee IV, made an appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 27, introducing the mother of murdered protestor Heather Heyer and denouncing racism. On Sunday, Lee announced he had resigned his pastorate following the backlash he received…
“Speak now/if the white supremacists are using you as a symbol for hate” would be a good way to sum up the thread tweeted out yesterday morning by Feminist Taylor Swift, a parody Twitter account launched in 2013 which rewrites Taylor Swift lyrics to correlate them with feminist topics such as rape culture and the wage…
Days after the announcement that model Munroe Bergdorf was a face in L’Oréal Paris UK’s Truly Match campaign, the company has fired the model over a Facebook post she wrote in the wake of white supremacist violence at the Charlottesville protests. Bergdorf was, as she pointed out in one of several Facebook posts about…
A few hours ago, a coalition which started in Charlottesville announced “The March to Confront White Supremacy,” a ten-day march which starts on Monday, August 28th in Charlottesville, VA, passes by Confederate sites along the route, and culminates in an occupation in Washington, DC on Wednesday, September 6th. The…
Last week, Vice News released a 22-minute documentary of the militant white men who descended upon Charlottesville to make clear that “Jewish communists and criminal niggers,” as one neo-Nazi put it, were not welcome in America. A neo-Nazi named Christopher Cantwell, who on Wednesday turned himself in for arrest on…
The grieving mother of Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was run over and killed by a white supremacist in Charlottesville last weekend, does not have time for Donald Trump’s bullshit.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), along with co-sponsors Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), and Bonnie Watson-Coleman (D-NJ), on Wednesday introduced legislation asking Congress to formally reprimand Donald Trump for his woefully inadequate, grotesque, and harmful response to Charlottesville, in which he empathized with…
