The Enforcement Act of 1871, referred to colloquially as the Ku Klux Klan Act, was originally enacted to protect freed slaves in the South by outlawing movement "in disguise on the highway… for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the ...
In August 2017, a Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville saw angry white supremacists take to the streets in a demonstration against the removal of Confederate monuments. Klansmen were reportedly among those with torches and Confederate flags. The event ended in violence, with one counter-protester...
Mr. Trump pointed a finger at what he called the "alt-left" following theinfamous"Unite the Right"rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. After a white supremacistdeliberatelyplowed his carinto a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a woman namedHeather Heyer, Mr. Trump sparked more outrage...
Robert E. Lee after the 'Unite the Right' rally was declared an unlawful gathering, Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Nowadays, most U.S. cities have some kind of commission responsible for approving monuments. For instance, the city of Savannah, ...
Gibson had the SPLC-labeled hate group Oath Keepers conduct security at one of his rallies as well as the anti-government militia group called the Three Percenters. They were the ones in pseudo-military gear carrying AR-15’s across their chests during the “Unite the Right Rally” in Charl...
Obviously, all of the groups represented at the “Unite the Right” rally have been infiltrated by the government. They always are. With this basic understanding, it’s easy to see how the pieces of the protest puzzle were surreptitiously put into place over the months leading up to the sta...
Torch-bearing white supremacists in Charlottesville, Aug. 11, 2017, cited President Trump as the inspiration for their “Unite the Right” rally (Photo: Edu Bayer/The New York Times) On November 25, Trumpsaidthat as soon as he’s inaugurated on January 20, 2025 he will institute a new 25...
“This is straight up BS … Biden was the most-pro worker President of my life time — saved Union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line and some of MVP’s plans would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealt...
The "Unite the Right" rally was scheduled for Sat. Aug. 12 and participants started to gather in Charlottesville the night before. A group of white nationalists holding lit tiki torches marched through the campus of the University of Virginia, some chanting the Nazi-associated phrase "blood and...
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to lean into her personal biography and the story behind why she decided to become a prosecutor in her acceptance speech, according to excerpts of released by her campaign. On her bio, Harris will say: —“My mother was 19 when she crossed the world alone...