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Charlottesville

Beware: Nearly Half of Voters Think Media Fabricate Anti-Trump Stories

Standing Against White Supremacy, #NaziBucketChallenge Goes Viral

Julia Conley, staff writer

Calling out Trump's racist views, critics stand in solidarity with ESPN anchor

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118-Mile March From Charlottesville Reaches DC Demanding End to White Supremacy

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"This is the time to confront white supremacy in our government and throughout our history," the organizers of the march wrote.

"This is the time for us to stand up for justice and equality."

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Charlottesville Coalition to March 10 Days to DC to Confront White Supremacy

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"We know that this is a very dangerous moment in our nation's history, a moment...

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Following a white supremacist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, 65 percent of Americans said they felt the level of hatred in the U.S. has gone up since President Donald Trump entered office.

Poll Shows Trump Is Accomplishing One Thing: Making America Hate Again

Trump's Tuesday evening speech in Phoneix, Arizona drew the latest comparisons between his campaign-style events and speeches given by autocrats like Adolf Hitler.

'Shades of 1933 Germany': Trump's Hostile Rally Prompts Third Reich Comparisons

A dozen NFL players kneel in protest

Largest NFL Racial Justice Protest Yet as Cleveland Players Kneel During National Anthem

Thousands of protesters prepare to march in Boston against a planned 'Free Speech Rally' just one week after the violent 'Unite the Right' rally in Virginia left one woman dead and dozens more injured on August 19, 2017 in Boston, United States.

As Alt-Right Gathers in Boston, Thousands Counter With Rally to 'Fight Supremacy'

In their letter of resignation, the members of the president's arts committee spelled out the word "RESIST" with the first letters of each paragraph.

Citing 'Hateful Rhetoric' of Trump, Arts & Humanities Council Resigns En Masse

In protests around the world, the anti-Trump resistance has asserted this week that the white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville last week were to blame for the violence that ensued.

Despite Harsh Rebuke for Charlottesville Stance, Trump's Base Remains Loyal

The Magazine Covers Trump Earned This Week By Defending White Supremacy

White supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.

ACLU Shifts Position on Defending Armed Demonstrations After Charlottesville

At her daughter's funeral on Wednesday, Susan Bro said that while white supremacists "tried to kill my child to shut her up, [they] just magnified her."

Heather Heyer's Mom Won't Talk to Trump 'After What He Said About My Child'

Heather Heyer memorial

After Charlottesville, Republicans Defend Bills to Protect Drivers Who Hit Protesters

In an act of civil disobedience and solidarity, more than 200 citizens offered to turn themselves in for toppling a Confederate monument in Durham, North Carolina.

In Support of Eight Arrested for Toppling Durham Statue, Hundreds Turn Themselves In

A general view of ambulances at the scene of a terrorist attack in the Las Ramblas area on August 17, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. Officials say 13 people are confirmed dead and at least 50 injured after a van plowed into people in the Las Ramblas area of the city this afternoon.

After Spain Attack, Trump Invokes 'Vile' Myth Celebrating Execution of Muslims

Newswire

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Leading Civil Rights Organization and Police Chiefs Join to Address Hate Crimes

NAACP

NAACP Statement on Steve Bannon’s Removal from White House

Global Justice Now

Theresa May Must Rescind Invite To Neo-Nazi Sympathiser Trump -

UltraViolet

Activists Drop “WOMEN RESIST WHITE SUPREMACY” Banner Inside Trump Tower Lobby

SumofUs

As CEOs Abandon Trump’s Manufacturing Council Over Lackluster Repudiation of White Supremacists, Over 26,000 Demand Ford, GM, IBM, JPMorgan Chase and Other CEOs Follow Their Lead

Jewish Voice for Peace

Getting Organized in the Wake of Charlottesville

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Views

Adam Eichen, Frances Moore Lappé

The Essential Ingredient of Democracy

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

Anti-Fascist Heroines Then and Now

Peter Dreier

Where Are All the Monuments to the Progressive Americans?

Adam Johnson

In Month After Charlottesville, Papers Spent as Much Time Condemning Anti-Nazis as Nazis

Eladio Bobadilla

The 'Alt-Right': We Need Courage and Truth, Not False Equivalencies

Glenn Greenwald

In Europe, Hate Speech Laws are Often Used to Suppress and Punish Left-Wing Viewpoints

Adam Sanchez

Taking the Fight Against White Supremacy Into Schools

Greg Huffman

A Window Into the Horrors of Our History

Bob Burnett

Game of Trump: The Battle of Charlottesville

David Suzuki

When Times Get Dark, We Must Shine Brighter

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