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Charlottesville gets green light from Virginia judge to remove Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee Dave Goldiner The city of Charlottesville won approval Thursday from Virginia’s highest court to take down a controversial statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was at the center of the 2017 white nationalist rally. A state supreme court judge reversed a lower court ruling that sided with a March 2017 lawsuit to keep the monuments to Lee and another Confederate military leader. A group of residents had argued that state law barred the city from removing war memorials or...

Replies(41) A white supremacist tag is seen on the chalk wall near where Heather Heyer was murdered by James Fields during the first Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto/Shutterstock) ACROSS AMERICA — White supremacists in the United States contributed to a record number of propaganda reports in 2020, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League's Center for Extremism. Nationwide, white supremacist propaganda — defined as posters, flyers, and graffiti that are anti-Semitic, racist, and anti-LGBTQ+ — was recorded 5,125 tim...

. Maybe that’s because the uber-privileged Exoo family never has to worry about unemployment or homelessness. They are cocooned in a web of wealth and nepotism at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Attorney Diane Exoo and professor Calvin Exoo, Christian’s parents. Christian Exoo’s father, Calvin Fred Exoo, is an emeritus professor at the university as well as a writer at Leftist outlets Salon, TruthOut and And where Daddy Exoo goes, Christian is not far behind. Calvin Exoo teaches at St. Lawrence, so Christian gets a job in the library. Calvin writes for Salon, so Christia...

By Laura Bates Sourcebooks ; $28.99 ; 352pp There’s an ideology that’s spreading via the internet, leading to terrorist attacks in America. It existed before the internet of course, but the past decade has seen it spread rapidly through mobile social media, growing in both breadth and virulence. Of course for an ideology to convince a score of men to commit mass murder in suicide attacks on the U.S. mainland you would expect there to be a sizeable number of less fanatical supporters. And that is indeed the case. Anyone who doubts the mass influence of this ideology only has to look at the...

Hear Whittier’s Last Poem read aloud There is something poignant about “last” things. The word last often possesses the sad, sometimes heroic, connotation of finality, including death. Think of a loved one’s last words, or the last time you saw a good friend, or a soldier’s last stand. Whittier’s last poem holds this poignancy. It […]