President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a “left-wing” problem and telling one far-right extremist group to “stand back and stand by.” “Almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from...
Mississippi Surrenders Confederate Symbol From State Flag
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War. A broad coalition of lawmakers — Black and white, Democrat and Republican...
White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading, Anti-Bias Group Says
NEW YORK — Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, making 2019 the second straight year that the circulation of propaganda material has more than doubled. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism reported...
Gilroy Pledges to Remain Strong in Wake of Festival Shooting
GILROY — Only a few days ago, Gilroy was known for one thing: garlic. The rural community near San Francisco lived and breathed the prized, pungent crop. Now it's the site of the latest American mass shooting. On Sunday evening, a 19-year-old gunman with apparent white supremacist views slipped into...
Nike Yanks 'Betsy Ross Flag' Shoe After Kaepernick Complains
NEW YORK — Nike is pulling a shoe that features a "Betsy Ross" U.S. flag design after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick complained to the shoemaker, according to the Wall Street Journal. The shoe's heel has a U.S. flag with 13 white stars in a circle on it. It's commonly...
Neo-Nazi Who Killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville Gets Life in Prison
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia was sentenced to life in prison Friday on hate crime charges. James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, had pleaded guilty in March to the 2017 attack...
White Supremacist Propaganda Growing on College Campuses
NEW YORK — Reading, writing and arithmetic are competing with more and more racist rhetoric on U.S. college campuses, a new report finds. Instances of white supremacist propaganda showing up on college campuses trended higher in the recently completed academic year, according to the Anti-Defamation League report published Thursday. That...
White Supremacists Charged With Directing California Prison Killings
SACRAMENTO — Leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang were charged Thursday with directing killings and drug smuggling from within California's most secure prisons, U.S. prosecutors said. The charges detail five slayings and accuse an attorney of helping smuggle drugs and cellphones to aid the white supremacist gang. Sixteen Aryan...
Mass Shootings Transform How America Talks, Prays, Prepares
CHICAGO — Pardeep Singh Kaleka has surveyed the landscape of an America scarred by mass shootings. Seven years ago, a white supremacist invaded a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and killed six worshippers — among them Kaleka's father, who died clutching a butter knife he'd grabbed in a desperate attempt to...
New Zealand Leader Vows to Never Say Mosque Gunman’s Name
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — He took away New Zealand's innocence, along with 50 precious lives. And in exchange, the country's prime minister vowed to take away the one thing the gunman so clearly craves: fame. In a passionate speech laced with steely resolve, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday urged...