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White Supremacists Are Increasingly Using Public Banners

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-03-15T08:37:57+00:00 March 15th, 2018|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

White supremacists are increasingly hanging banners in public places, such as from highway overpasses and rooftops, to promote their views, according to a report released on Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League.

“While white supremacists have been using banners for some time, the number of banners deployed in the

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Anti-Semitism in U.S. surged in 2017, a new report finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-03-06T09:26:41+00:00 March 6th, 2018|Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Harassment, threats and vandalism cases targeting Jews in the United States surged to near-record levels in 2017, jumping 57% over the previous year, according to a new report by a prominent civil rights organization.

The Anti-Defamation League counted 1,986 anti-Semitic

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Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly Killing a Gay Jewish College Student

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-03-06T09:25:52+00:00 March 6th, 2018|Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

ProPublica obtained the chat logs of Atomwaffen, a notorious white supremacist group. When Samuel Woodward was charged with killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein last month in California, other Atomwaffen members cheered the death, concerned only that the group’s cover might have been blown.

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States With the Most Hate Groups

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-03-06T09:24:54+00:00 March 6th, 2018|Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

The number of active hate groups in the United States has steadily risen over the past several years, from 784 in 2014 to 954 as of 2017, according to the civil rights advocacy group Southern Poverty Law Center.

A number of factors can act as possible explanations for the rise in hate group activity in recent

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This Week in White Supremacy tracks battle for racial justice

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-02-20T09:03:43+00:00 February 20th, 2018|Extremism, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

What do Ohio teens chanting slurs at black and Asian high school athletes have in common with the anti-immigrant fanaticism that intensified with the president’s lie about a border agent’s death?

And how are those incidents associated with a tiny neo-Nazi group that has been linked to at least five killings, including the death of a

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After 2016 Election, Campus Hate Crimes Seemed to Jump. Here’s What the Data Tell Us.

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-02-19T09:45:14+00:00 February 19th, 2018|Education, Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

In the charged weeks after the election of Donald J. Trump, analysts and advocacy groups noted a rise in reports of hate crimes. Colleges seemed to be seeing that rise as much as any public spaces.

Anecdotal evidence suggested that acts of campus harassment and violence were on the upswing. (The Chronicle collected much of that

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What Is Atomwaffen? A Neo-Nazi Group, Linked to Multiple Murders

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-02-12T11:21:57+00:00 February 12th, 2018|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

When a Florida man who had recently converted to Islam fatally shot two of his roommates, the name came up.

When the roommate he did not shoot was sentenced to five years for homemade explosives, the name came up.

And when an arrest

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Planners of Deadly Charlottesville Rally Are Tested in Court

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-02-12T09:53:01+00:00 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 Carmen Chandler| 2018-02-06T09:24:47+00:00 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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White Supremacy Incidents on College Campuses up 258 Percent

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-02-05T09:25:31+00:00 February 5th, 2018|Education, Hate Crimes, Police & Community|

A new study finds white-supremacist propaganda on college campuses has increased by 258 percent from the fall of 2016 to the fall of 2017.

The study, released on Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League, says 216 campuses have been affected by white supremacy. In the fall 2017 semester alone, the organization found 147 incidents of white-supremacist fliers,

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