A handy primer on antifa, the KKK’s imprint on Charlottesville and what happened to business owners who gave to white supremacist David Duke.
Will Carless
Reporter
Will Carless was a correspondent for Reveal covering extremism. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in Asia and South America. Prior to joining Reveal, he was a senior correspondent for Public Radio International’s Global Post team based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Before that, Will spent eight years at the Voice of San Diego, where he worked as an investigative reporter and head of investigations. During his tenure in San Diego, Will was awarded several prizes, including a national award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has been a finalist for the Livingston Awards for young journalists twice in the last five years. He surfs, spends time with his family, travels to silly places and pretends he’s writing a novel.
Posted inAccountability, Hate, The Trump Era
Antifa has a rapid response team that targets alt-right organizers
Members of the anti-fascist movement are tracking right-wing activists in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, creating a database of known targets.
Posted inThe Trump Era
The Hate Report: A guide to this weekend’s Bay Area protests
In the weeks before Charlottesville, it was apparent the protest would turn violent. It’s not so clear this time.
Posted inThe Hate Report, The Trump Era
The Hate Report: Behind the scenes, neo-Nazis plotted a fight
Any “very fine” person could have predicted racism and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. No one was hiding their intentions, it seems.
Posted inHate, The Trump Era
3 ways the Trump administration has downplayed white supremacy
In the weeks leading up to the protest, Trump and those close to him often played down the real threat of violence committed by white supremacists on a regular basis across the country.
Posted inInequality, The Hate Report, The Trump Era
Help us document hate crimes
If you or somebody you know has seen or been the target of a hate crime or incident, we want to hear from you.
Posted inThe Hate Report
The Hate Report: In Canada, anti-Muslim hate crime skyrockets
Canada was the scene of one of the worst anti-Muslim mass killings in North American history earlier this year.
Posted inInequality, The Hate Report, The Trump Era
The Hate Report: T is for Trump; B is for bully; N is for noose
In this week’s report: An in-depth look at a toxic trend in America’s schools as students invoke the president’s name in their bullying of minority students, a slew of nooses in Washington, D.C., and all is (relatively) calm in Portland.
Posted inThe Hate Report
The Hate Report: The history behind the Portland stabbings
In this week’s report: Examining Portland’s history of racism following last week’s stabbings, LeBron James becomes a victim of a hate incident, and two more violent attacks.
Posted inInequality, Law Enforcement
Portland attacker pledged to slay Trump, Clinton in name of Nordic god
In February 2016, 15 months before he was accused of stabbing three people on a train in Portland, Oregon, and killing two, Jeremy Christian pledged to kill whoever was elected president of the United States.