In five Southern states, April is Confederate History Month, a dubious designation that’s at odds with the reckoning the region has engaged in since the Charleston church massacre by white supremacist Dylann Roof in 2015.
Some see the monument as “the largest shrine to white supremacy in the history of the world.”
The Christian and Norse mythology behind white supremacist violence
The former Alabama leader of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, whose record includes a hate crime and firearms violations, now has been convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to additional prison time.
In extremist circles, there appears to be a bump of interest in Timothy James McVeigh.
Since last fall, the Nationalist Socialist Movement (NSM) has attempted to hide its admiration for Adolf Hitler by removing the swastika from NSM uniforms, banners, patches and shields.
The last of four major Confederate monuments in New Orleans came down on Friday, the final step of a campaign launched in 2015 by Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
Cross-burnings to instill fear in black Americans are not just footnotes in history books, but a continuing reality in the 21st Century, as a Florida hate-crime case illustrates.
In the nearly 30 years since the Southern Poverty Law Center has been monitoring the American radical right we’ve seen a major shift in the nature of organized groups that specialize in vilifying certain people because of their race, ethnicity or other characteristic.
Dylann Roof’s plan was simple. The 21-year-old wanted to start a race war, following the same demented path as infamous white supremacists before him.
