Chat logs made available to ProPublica show talk of mass killings and the recipes that could be used to carry them out.
This story was originally published by ProPublica Right-wing extremists communicating in confidential online chats in recent months have shared scores of documents detailing the manufacture and use of bombs,
A group that included many people who were college-educated or ex-military displayed effective planning. “White people are pretty good at getting organized,” said one.
The white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation of the white supremacy movement. Old-guard groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and the Nazi skinheads, which had long stood at the center of racist politics in
The gaps in data damage efforts to understand the nature and scope of violence driven by racial and religious hatred.
In violation of a longstanding legal mandate, scores of federal law enforcement agencies are failing to submit statistics to the FBI's national hate crimes database, ProPublica has learned. The lack of participation by federal law enforcement represents a significant and largely unknown flaw in the database, which is supposed to be the nation's
A reporter for the conservative news site neglected to mention he’d given a speech in front of protesters in support of white nationalism.
On May 14, The Daily Caller, a popular conservative website, published a news story about recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Led by prominent white supremacists and anti-Semites, the protesters, some
Prosecutors were pleased that the two white assailants pleaded guilty to hate crime charges.
Wearing a slightly baggy suit, a maroon turban wrapped around his head, Maan Singh Khalsa looked across the courtroom at Judge Patricia Scanlon and wiggled his right hand. The damage was obvious: Most of Khalsa's pinky finger was missing. "My attackers hit me with their fists, knocked off my turban, and yelled, 'Cut his fucking hair.' They
Assault rifles, body armor, a possible kill list, but not much attention when feds arrested a white man they said was bent on “race war.”
(REPORT) --- The year was 2012. The place was Bowling Green, Ohio. A federal raid had uncovered what the authorities feared were the makings of a massacre. There were 18 firearms, among them two AR-15 assault rifles, an AR-10 assault rifle and a Remington Model 700 sniper rifle. There was body armor, too, and the authorities
Some Christian groups have no problem protecting people from crimes driven by racial or religious hated. They just draw the line at sexual orientation.
(ANALYSIS) --- Last year, lawmakers in South Carolina introduced legislation that would have increased the standard penalties for anyone who assaults, intimidates or threatens another individual if they did so because of the victim's "race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or sexual orientation." Drafted by Democratic
