Aug 16 Twitter chat: Is hate on the rise? By Lora Strum The NewsHour will host a Twitter chat at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17 with Asma Khalid and Armstrong Williams, two panelists on the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research forum on Race and Racism in the Age of… Continue reading
Aug 16 WATCH: Funeral of Heather Heyer, who died in Charlottesville attack By Joshua Barajas The funeral of Heather Heyer will be held Wednesday at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville and will begin at 11 a.m. EST. Watch the service here. Continue reading
Aug 16 AP fact check: What Trump said about Virginia protesters By Darlene Superville and Sarah Rankin, Associated Press President Donald Trump has defended his response to Saturday's racially-charged protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a winding, combative exchange with reporters that at times mischaracterized the message and purpose of event. Continue reading
Aug 15 Watch 10:39 Will Taylor Swift's sexual assault legal victory empower others? By PBS News Hour When a radio host sued pop star Taylor Swift for defamation, Swift sued him back, winning $1 in damages. But there’s a greater victory: having a jury affirm her claim as a victim of sexual assault. Lisa Desjardins talks about… Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch 10:22 Scenes from Charlottesville invoke racist legacy in the present day By PBS News Hour The violent events in Charlottesville, where white supremacist groups came out of the shadows, seem to have brought rising American tensions over race and racism to a head. Hari Sreenivasan gets perspectives from Leonard Pitts Jr. of The Miami Herald,… Continue watching
Aug 15 Years-long probe into Texas white supremacist gangs ends with 89th and final conviction By Joshua Barajas On Monday, a judge handed down the last in a series of prosecutions stemming from a 2013 probe that targeted members of various white supremacist gangs, including the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, selling drugs in the north Texas area. Continue reading
Aug 15 Internet company DreamHost fights government request for records related to Inauguration Day protest By Associated Press An internet company is fighting what it says is a "sweeping" request for information about an anti-Trump website that prosecutors allege was behind destructive Inauguration Day protests. Continue reading
Aug 15 After Charlottesville rally, these U.S. cities say they'll take down their Confederate statues By Joshua Barajas Saturday's violence revived calls to take down monuments to Confederate-era battles and leaders in these cities and states. Continue reading
Aug 15 Robert E. Lee opposed Confederate monuments By Lisa Desjardins White supremacists, neo-Nazis and others have protested the removal of Confederate monuments. But the Confederate general Robert E. Lee himself never wanted such monuments built. Continue reading
Aug 15 How white nationalist leader Matt Heimbach defends violence at Saturday's rally in Charlottesville By Laura Santhanam During an interview with PBS NewsHour's P.J. Tobia, Matthew Heimbach of the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white nationalist group, reflected whether he regretted a person dying after the automobile attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, and whether he himself feels responsible for… Continue reading