Number of Hate Groups in the US Has Risen 755 Percent Since the Election of...
The election of President Obama triggered an explosion in the number of hate groups in the US, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The rise in numbers is due to changing...
View ArticleAre Hate Crime Laws Necessary?
As the webcam-spying trial of Rutgers student Dharun Ravi comes to an end, some people have questioned whether hate crime laws are necessary at all. On the one hand, they dole out harsher punishments...
View ArticleThe Sikh Temple Shooting and Hate Groups
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, discusses Wade Michael Page, the gunman who allegedly killed six people at a Sikh temple in...
View ArticleSikh Temple Shooter Had Ties to Hate Groups
A shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin this weekend has left six people dead and three wounded. Now that the confusion and conflicting reports during the shooting have settled,...
View ArticleHate Group Explainer
Following the shooting at the offices of the Family Research Council, Ami Lynch, vice president of gender and special populations research at Social Solutions International and adjunct professor at The...
View ArticleHow Hate Speech and Extremism Went Mainstream
The number of hate groups in America is on the decline—that's the silver lining in the annual report on violent domestic extremism released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).While the...
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As racial hate groups rise, strategies to shut them down
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups have gained more attention in the news recently, but as special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault...
View ArticleHow Donald Trump Courted the Alt-Right
Journalists Sarah Posner and David Neiwert join us to talk about their article for Mother Jones: “How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream,” reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at the...
View ArticleRichard 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...
View ArticleFormer Skinhead Tells Alt-Right to Wake Up: 'You're a Pawn.'
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. The number of hate groups in the U.S. rose for a second year in a row in 2016 as the radical right was energized by the candidacy of Donald...
View ArticleWhite Supremacy's Resurgence, Reflections From a Former Skinhead, Signing the...
Coming up on today's show:The Southern Poverty Law Center has been documenting hate groups in the U.S. for decades. From 2015 to 2016, the organization saw a rise in the number of those groups...
View ArticleTracking American Hate, From the Nazis to the Nationalists
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. The white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend has been roundly condemned by...
View ArticleThe History of Blaming 'Both Sides' and Why Language Matters
As President Trump faces renewed criticism for his handling of the recent violent white supremacist march in Charlottesville, one thing is becoming very clear: Language matters.The President first...
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White supremacists once wore hoods. Now, an internet mob won’t let them stay...
Peter Cytanovic, right, along with neo-Nazis, “alt-right” and white supremacists encircle and chant at counter-protesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the...
View ArticleDuck and Cover
The Trump administration has announced the end of the DACA program. We examine the rhetoric used to justify the decision. Plus: the Southern Poverty Law Center faces questions from across the political...
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Senate approves resolution condemning white nationalists
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, seen in this file photo, is one of several lawmakers who introduced a resolution condemning white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other hate groups. Photo by REUTERS/Aaron P....
View ArticleWhite Lives Matter Rally Met With Counter Protesters
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.White nationalists from across the country converged on the town of Shelbyville, Tennessee over the weekend. They were rallying for “White Lives...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA Year in Hate
Every year The Southern Poverty Law Center issues a report which tracks hate groups in America. The most recent report identifies 954 hate groups – an increase of 4 percent from their 2016...
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