The successful prosecution of Richard Machado for committing a hate crime online could become an important precedent in future cases.
The successful prosecution of Richard Machado for committing a hate crime online could become an important precedent in future cases.
Violence between Klan and counter-demonstrators at an October 1997 rally in Asheville, N.C., illustrates that direct confrontation often leads to a melee, and extra publicity for the haters.
The count of active hate groups in the U.S. hits 474 in 1997, a 20% increase over the previous year.
The increasing extreme racism and antigovernment posturing of the Christian Identity faith accompanies a rise in Identity believers.
A racist brand of neo-Paganism, related to Odinism, spreads among white supremacists.
Resistance Records, even after a multinational crackdown, remains the nation's largest and most profitable purveyor of racist rock.
Read the story of former Skinhead T.J. Leyden, who now works with the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Hate sites increase online, now numbering 163 in the 34 months since the first hate site went live.
Another Klan rally ends in violence, this time in Memphis due to a scuffle between counter-protesters and police.
Inside Chess, Harper's, Astronomy, Writer's Digest — only a few of the hundreds of publications effectively banned in 1997 under an arbitrary policy implemented by the Alabama prison's warden. The Center sued, securing an agreement protecting inmates' rights to mailed reading materials.
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