Five years after white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, the statue they came to protect is gone, and the 鈥渁lt-right鈥 coalition they embodied has imploded. At the same time, the existential threat that far-right extremism poses to the U.S. has arguably never been more severe.
Behind the shield of anonymity, members of a neo-Confederate hate group appeared to have emerged without consequences for their participation in a deadly Virginia rally. But that shield has vanished.
Judge Richard Moore imposed a sentence of 419 years plus life on James Alex Fields Jr., convicted of murder after the racist 鈥淯nite the Right鈥 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.
A judge has ruled that a civil rights-era law forbidding the removal of 鈥渨ar memorials鈥 applies to Confederate statues that became flashpoints during a deadly Virginia gathering of white nationalists and neo-Nazis.
The leader of the antisemitic and racist Rise Above Movement and a fellow member of the group pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of conspiracy to riot.
Christopher Cantwell, a prolific white supremacist radio host, put his broadcasting work on hiatus, citing 鈥渟erious personal problems鈥 as the reason behind his decision in a post on his website.
The white supremacist sympathizer who plowed a car into a crowd and killed a woman after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to 29 federal hate crimes.
The identity of a man wearing a white helmet seen in video of the beating of Deandre Harris after the racist 鈥淯nite the Right鈥 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been a mystery for nearly 18 months.
A member of the neo-Confederate group League of the South聽has taken a plea for his role in the beating of DeAndre Harris in the hours after the racist 鈥淯nite the Right鈥 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.