In 1960, Alabama鈥檚 state board of education ordered the firing of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick from his post as chair of the history department at Alabama State University (then Alabama State College).
Richard Spencer seems to have given up on putting a spin for reporters on what happened during the National Policy Institute conference last month, when his supporters responded to a toast by throwing stiff-arm Nazi salutes to the stage with cries of 鈥淗ail Trump!鈥
In the media maelstrom that followed, Spencer was quick to dismiss criticisms that his suit-and-tie class of racists had gone full-on聽Nazi by claiming the salutes were simply a misunderstood expression of 鈥渆xuberance and irony.鈥 But it鈥檚 almost impossible to believe that now.聽
Michael Brian Vanderboegh, who rose from the 1990s militia ranks to become the angry, vocal co-founder of the extremist, pro-gun III Percent movement, using an Internet blog to promote his antigovernment聽views, has died.
The newest addition to the Involuntary People of Color Club, revealed courtesy of NBC鈥檚 is Craig Paul Cobb 鈥 the epithet-spewing, violence-glorifying, black-hating neo-Nazi who鈥檚 been trying to take over a tiny town in North Dakota and transform it into an all-white homeland for 鈥淎ryans.鈥
As the first months of the Obama Administration unfold, a growing consensus is emerging that a resurgence of right-wing hate groups and radical ideas is spreading across the United States.
A wide range of extremists attended rallies supporting Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and his Ten Commandments monument.
Now, more than ever, we must work together to protect the values that ensure a fair and inclusive future for all.