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White Supremacy

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CU Boulder Enrolled Alleged White Supremacist with Knowledge of His Past

by Seyward Darby January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

“University officials were notified of Durham’s connection to Patriot Front and his violent social media posts before he stepped on campus as a student in August of 2022.”

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Stewart Rhodes’s Son: ‘How I Escaped My Father’s Militia’

by Seyward Darby November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

“The son of militia leader Stewart Rhodes spent years plotting to help his family escape from his father’s control. Now that the elder Rhodes faces decades in prison, the rest of the family is rebuilding their lives.”

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He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs

by Peter Rubin February 2, 2022October 19, 2022

“At six feet four and 260 pounds, he fills up a room without meaning to, though he never wastes time trying to merge with his surroundings. He’s funny and profane and could charm a lampshade off its base with his whiskey-sour drawl and Harley swagger. Small wonder that even strangers at the Quik Mart call […]

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‘The Foot Soldiers’: A Neo-Nazi Skinhead Gang Terrorized Dallas in the Late 1980s

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“The racist white nationalist movement has deep roots. Some run directly back to Dallas and the violent Confederate Hammerskins.”

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The Crimson Klan

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 9, 2021October 19, 2022

Exploring the history of the Ku Klux Klan’s presence at Harvard University.

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A Black Physicist Is Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 17, 2021October 19, 2022

“I am forced to live in a parallel world to the one I wanted to live in, where I could have been a physicist without also constantly being asked to speak on or attempt to compensate for the persistent racism of institutions.”

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Meet the Undercover Anti-Fascists

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 16, 2021October 19, 2022

Deplatform Hate is a group of “anti-fascist researchers and activists who infiltrate and expose Proud Boys, neo-Nazis, militias, and other members of the violent far right.”

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He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 3, 2021October 19, 2022

Dan-el Padilla Peralta “believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.”

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘Almost Home’: On Place, Legacy, Growing Up in Atlanta, and Symbols of White Supremacy

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 12, 2021October 19, 2022

An essay on growing up in the South, legacy, and a place rooted in white supremacy.

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Almost Home

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 6, 2021October 19, 2022

Pete Candler reflects on growing up in the South, legacy, and a place rooted in white supremacy.

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