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,...
This lens is particularly prominent in fast-moving events, such as conversations and action in political rallies and the use of social media by extremist groups to spread their message. We study the Twitter conversation following the August 2017 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia...
Unite the Right Poster 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...
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-...
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...
from the account of Jason Kessler, organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally that ended in fatal violence one week earlier in Charlottesville, Virginia, has prompted a rare condemnation from the entire length and breadth of the United States political spectrum, from extreme left to extreme right...
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...
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...
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 ...
The Trial Over "Unite the Right": With Molly Conger, Robert Evans. We talk with Molly Conger, a Charlottesville journalist, over the ongoing legal battle over the 2017 Unite the Right rally.