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Hatewatch Headlines 5/23/2017

N.C. voting districts struck down as race-based; White supremacy’s toll demands attention; Legislator says monument critics should be lynched; and more.

The Hill: U.S. Supreme Court strikes down North Carolina voting districts as illegally based on race.

Huffington Post: Black college student’s alleged killer belongs to white-supremacist Facebook group, police say.

Salon: White supremacy is deadly, so when will we start taking this rhetoric seriously?

Mic: Pennsylvania college plans ‘teach-in’ as response to planned Ku Klux Klan rally.

Mississippi Today: State lawmaker opines that anyone removing a Confederate monument ‘should be lynched.’

Right Wing Watch: Kris Kobach’s own investigation proves that voter-ID laws aren’t needed.

Think Progress: Virginia gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart says the left is to blame for the rise in anti-Semitism.

The Daily Beast: Inside the warped mind of white-supremacist mass killer Dylann Roof, and the logic that’s spreading among haters.

Media Matters: Alex Jones’s website Infowars broadcasts from the White House briefing room, with Jerome Corsi.

Tampa Bay Times (FL): Ex-Neo-Nazi says he murdered his roommates because they disrespected his new Muslim beliefs.

KWTX-TV (Waco, TX): Texas Rangers arrest sovereign citizen for retaliating against public officials for his legal tangles.

Madison Courier (KY): Madison city official urge public to ignore planned Ku Klux Klan rally this weekend.

Rewire: Montana congressional candidate Gianforte donated to white nationalists, antigovernment extremists.

The New York Times: A look at Young America’s Foundation, the right-wing force behind the speeches roiling American campuses.

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