The Infiltration of Law Enforcement by Racist Extremists
As protests continue to bring cities across the United States to a standstill, the problem of racist policing is more evident than ever before. The killing of George Floyd at the…
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Ku Klux Klan
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GOP Lawmaker’s Celebration Of KKK Leader Forces Racial Reckoning In Alabama
The backlash to Alabama State Rep. Will Dismukes’s celebration of the 1st KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest marks a shift in the state — or at least a beginning.…
Two Deaths Raise the Specter of Lynching in California
Given the current heightened atmosphere in the United States, it is hard not to be suspicious of the recent deaths by hanging of two African American men in California. On…
NO BARGAIN: Why Don’t Bad Cops Get Fired? The Power of Police Unions
We know that problem cops are tough to fire. The reason—their unions. That has to change. Now. As an expert on the radical right over the last 25 years, I’ve…
Racist violence in West Germany before 1990
While racism has always been an integral part of radical-right ideology, the West German radical right scene started with extensive racist activities in the late 1970s. Since then, agitation against…
The Strange History of the Group Tied to Jersey City Murders
Perhaps the most bizarre thing about Black Hebrew Israelism is the way it mirrors, with only a change in color, the ideas of Christian Identity. Yet another apparent anti-Semitic multiple…
NPR “Embedded” Podcast: “The Terrorist”
In the 1980s, white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, founder of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party, got active duty Marines to train his…
In Memphis, A Battle Over The First KKK Leader’s Statue
Memorials and the radical right: the descendants of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest seek to honor their forefather’s violent racism. So now the battle over memory of the American Civil…
The Curious Case of Daryl Davis, the Black Man Befriending Members of the KKK
Richard Wilson Preston Jr. is not a nice guy. When the imperial wizard of the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan came to the “Unite the Right” rally…