In one now notorious message, Charlottesville resident and rally organizer Jason Kessler wrote to white nationalist leader Richard Spencer ahead of the rally: "We're raising an army my liege. For free speech, but the cracking of skulls if it comes to it." "This is not a hypothetical thing,...
Joseph H. TienMarisa C. EisenbergMason A. PorterSarah T. Cherng
Are the leaders of the infamous “Unite the Right” rally held in Charlottesville, VA on August 12 “white supremacists” or something else? Heather Heyer was brutally killed and many others wounded when a car being driven by James Alex Fields, Jr., a Hitler-loving 20-year-old diagnosed sc...
The media frequently describes the 2017 Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally as a turning point for the alt-right and white supremacist movements. Related research into social movements also suggests that the media attention and public discourse concerning the rally may have influenced the alt-...
The Heather Heyer tweet gave this group a new pretext for disavowing Kessler and pinning the Charlottesville debacle on everyone but the alt-right itself: Advertisement: I will no longer associate w/ Jason Kessler; no one should. Heyer's death was deeply saddening. "Payback" is a morally repr...
The media frequently describes the 2017 Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally as a turning point for the alt-right and white supremacist movements. Social movement theory suggests that the media attention and public discourse concerning the rally may have engendered changes in social identity ...
Kessler, organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that descended into violence between rally attendees and counter-protesters, is seen being escorted by state troopers after coming under attack by an angry crowd as he tried to address reporters on Aug. 13, 2017.CBS...
An Imperial Wizard of a Maryland Ku Klux Klan chapter was sentenced to four years in prison by a Virginia judge on Tuesday for firing a gun in a school zone during the 2017 "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, CNN reports. If not for...
The media frequently describes the 2017 Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally as a turning point for the alt-right and white supremacist movements. Social movement theory suggests that the media attention and public discourse concernin... VDV Isabelle,M Mozes,P Gill,... - 《Journal of Computa...
Violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia on Sunday as Unite The Right organizer Jason Kessler was attacked while trying to hold a press conference.