California white supremacists vowed to ‘reimagine’ racist movements with new look and secretive tactics
From the beginning, the founders of the so-called Rise Above Movement had a goal: to reinvent what it meant to be a white nationalist.
Members of the Southern California group were instructed to blend in at political rallies with polo shirts, khakis and
‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Policy Surprised Agencies, Report Finds
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration did not tell key government agencies about its “zero tolerance” immigration policy before publicly announcing it in April, leaving the officials responsible for carrying it out unprepared to handle the resulting separations of thousands of children from their families, according to a government report released on Wednesday.
AMERICANS ARE DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND TERRORISTS
On Monday, President Donald Trump added a golden oldie to his pre-election playlist. Tucked into his tweets about that caravan of would-be refugees walking their way north from Central America were the familiar strains of Islamophobia.
Between assertions that desperately poor, homeless people pose a grave threat to the nation, he claimed without evidence that
Trump and G.O.P. Candidates Escalate Race and Fear as Election Ploys
President Trump on Monday sharply intensified a Republican campaign to frame the midterm elections as a battle over immigration and race, issuing a dark and factually baseless warning that “unknown Middle Easterners” were marching toward the American border with Mexico.
The unsubstantiated charge marked an escalation of Mr. Trump’s
Trump Claims ‘Criminals and Unknown Middle Easterners’ Are in Caravan of Migrants
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday said a caravan of migrants making their way toward the United States included “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners,” and blamed Democrats for the state of immigration law.
The “unknown Middle Easterners” Mr. Trump mentioned are a new cohort on the
‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.
A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened
‘Degenerate and Murderous’: California Campus Republicans’ Platform Attacks College Culture
The California College Republicans’ new platform says the state’s campuses are rife with what the group considers “degenerate” behavior. The document takes aim at university funding of birth control and abortion, the legitimizing of transgender people, and institutional support of Mexican and Muslim student organizations that the group accuses of being “ethnonationalist” and anti-Semitic.
“In addition,
LA County sees spike in reported hate crimes against Latinos, blacks
Hate crimes against black victims reported in Los Angeles County rose 15 percent last year after a significant decline the previous year, while crimes targeting Latinos rose 16 percent, according to a new report.
The number of total hate crimes reported in Los Angeles County rose 5 percent in 2017 to 508, according to the report
Quoting CAHRO’s Brian Levin: ‘Swastikas in gift wrap’: NBC accused of helping white-nationalist group sanitize its racism
NBC’s “Today” show ran a segment about a white nationalist group on Wednesday that seemed designed to raise concerns.
“We are telling this story to pull back the curtain so parents and college students are aware that these groups are out there,” correspondent Peter Alexander said before the segment, which was billed as “a
Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed)
Nowhere on the agenda of the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, being held in San Diego this week, is a topic plaguing many of its members: the recurring appropriation of the field’s research in the name of white supremacy.
“Sticking your neck out on political issues is difficult,”