Trumping Hate
The Deradicalization of Homegrown Hate Groups
Wes Enzinna and Shane Johnson discuss Enzinna’s recent piece for Mother Jones, “Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacists,” for which Johnson is the subject. Enzinna dives deep into the deradicalization movement that is chipping away at homegrown hate groups. Shane tells his story of leaving a white supremacist group and paints a broader picture of how fighting violent white supremacy can be a lot like fighting addiction.
This segment is guest hosted by Matt Katz.
Formaldehyde Could Be Fatal, Tell Us Your Immigration Story, Reforming White Supremacists
Richard Spencer’s cotton farms
On this episode of Reveal, three stories of men are at the center of controversy.
He’s been punched on the streets of Washington, D.C., and kicked out of a major conservative political gathering, and yet white nationalist Richard Spencer has left Montana to set up shop in the nation’s capital. What does he have to show for it?
A Marine veteran breaks the news of hundreds – possibly thousands – of naked photographs of female service members being shared online. We hear his story.
Nearly 30 years ago, six firefighters in Kansas City, Missouri, died in an arson explosion that shook the city. Reveal follows a man in the case who was sent to prison for life as he’s released and reunited with his family.
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A Revealing Year
Reveal has had a busy year – our team has chased stories from Oklahoma to Bermuda. We exposed a rehab program that provides labor at a chicken processing plant that’s been called a slave camp and followed the money trail of the Paradise Papers, leaked documents that revealed international tax shelters for some of America’s biggest companies. We reported on the rise of hate crimes and investigated hate groups.
In this episode, we look at some of our best reporting from 2017 and how Reveal has made an impact in our world.
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Is Legislation the Answer to Removing Extremists from Police Departments?
Since George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis last summer, the role of racism and bias in policing has been front and center for many Americans. This week, reporting in The New York Times found that lawmakers in a handful of states are trying to propose legislation that would make it easier to identify and remove officers affiliated with extremism and hate groups. But, critics of the legislation have questioned whether or not these laws would encroach on the individual rights of officers.
Professor Phil Stinson, former police officer and criminologist at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and Councilmember Janeese Lewis George from Ward 4 in Washington D.C., joined The Takeaway to discuss what these laws would mean in practice.
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Prof. Eddie Glaude, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Jay Caspian Kang On The Year In Hate (and Love)
After a year with so much hate-motivated politics and violence, we take a step back with three perspectives on bigotry and hate movements, and on responding with love.
On Today's Show:
Sharon Kleinbaum, senior rabbi and spiritual leader of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City, Jay Caspian Kang, staff writer for The New Yorker, documentary film director, and the author of The Loneliest Americans (Crown, 2021), Eddie Glaude, Jr., chair of Princeton's African-American studies department and the author of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Crown, 2020), on the verbal and physical expressions of hate in 2022, and how to combat it.