Nine Years After Charlottesville the Far Right Moved From the Margins to the Mainstream

Nine Years After Charlottesville the Far Right Moved From the Margins to the Mainstream

Nine years ago this week the Unite the Right rally was held in Charlottesville, Virginia. Who could forget images of white supremacists marching through…

Charlottesville Virginia Riot Echos Racial Injustice Warning Nine Years On

Reverend Cornel West joined clergy in a human line to oppose the Unite the Right supremacist rally. Photo by J. Zangas/DCMG Washington DC—It was nine years ago on August 12, that dozens of supremacist, Alt-Right, neo-nazi, klansmen, and nationalist groups rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia against a plan to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from downtown Lee Park. Organized by Jason Kessler, the ‘Unite the Right’ rally was a…