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Planners of Deadly Charlottesville Rally Are Tested in Court

By | February 12th, 2018|Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

In the hours after last summer’s white power rally in Charlottesville, Va., erupted into violence, the planners of the protest mounted a defense: While much of the country may have found their racist chants and Nazi iconography deplorable, they claimed that they had a First Amendment right to self-expression, and

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Killer who committed massacre in Isla Vista was part of alt-right, new research shows

By | February 6th, 2018|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who killed six students in the college town of Isla Vista in 2014, was the first “alt-right killer” to strike in recent years, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Revealing Themselves on Campus

By | December 5th, 2017|Education, Extremism, Intergroup Relations|

While it’s unsurprising now when racist, homophobic or anti-Semitic posters crop up on college campuses, a rarer event is the white nationalist culprits sticking around to pose for photos.

But such is the case at Southern Methodist University, where police are currently investigating banners and posters espousing white supremacy that

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In the Age of ISIS, Who’s a Terrorist, and Who’s Simply Deranged?

By | July 18th, 2016|Extremism, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — In December 2014, a middle-aged man driving a car in Dijon, France, mowed down more than a dozen pedestrians within 30 minutes, occasionally shouting Islamic slogans from his window.

The chief prosecutor in Dijon described the attacks, which left 13 injured but no one dead, as

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Music Style Is Called Supremacist Recruiting Tool

By | August 9th, 2012|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

MILWAUKEE — The shooting rampage by an avowed white supremacist that killed six people at a suburban Sikh Temple near here came at a time of both growth and disarray in the supremacist movement.

Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/us/hatecore-music-is-called-white-supremacist-recruiting-tool.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=us

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Sikh temple shooter seems to have followed ‘lone wolf’ path, quotes CAHRO board member Brian Levin

By | August 9th, 2012|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

Law enforcement has pored through more than 100 leads following the shootings that left six people dead at a Sikh temple this week, trying to determine whether gunman Wade Michael Page acted alone or was part of a group bent on carrying out acts of neo-Nazi violence.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sikh-temple-shooting-20120809,0,6891673.story

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Wisconsin shooting brings secretive white power music into focus

By | August 8th, 2012|Extremism|

The hate-filled music subculture is gaining attention amid news that Wade Michael Page, the suspect in the deadly Wisconsin shooting, played in white power bands.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-hate-rock-20120808,0,7798877.story

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Sikh temple shooter said to be white suprem

By | August 6th, 2012|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

OAK CREEK, Wis.—The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before he was shot to death by police was identified Monday as a 40-year-old Army veteran and former leader of a white supremacist metal band.

Read more in The Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/08/06/motive_sought_after_6_slain_at_wis_sikh_temple/

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