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U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Report: Anti-government groups a threat

A civil rights organization is calling on the U.S. government to create a task force to deal with the threat of radical-right anti-government groups.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Sikh shooter's family saw kind side

Family and friends of Wade Michael Page, the slain Oak Creek, Wis., Sikh temple shooter, described him as "gentle and kind and loving."

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Alleged white supremacists charged in Fla.

Seven people are charged with hate crimes in Florida after an investigation into the American Front white supremacist group, officials said.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

FBI: Sovereign citizens a domestic threat

U.S. authorities say they have increased their focus on so-called sovereign citizens, a movement that believes it can use armed force to resist police.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Report: U.S. extremist groups grew in 2009

The number of extremist, anti-government groups in the United States grew in 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a report issued Tuesday.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Right wing weighs in on 'suicide' pilot

Alleged suicide pilot Joe Stack's attack on a Texas Internal Revenue Service office is bringing out right-wing extremist support, experts say.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Post-election racial hate incidents spike

White supremacist activity and racial incidents have skyrocketed since U.S. President-elect Barack Obama won the Nov. 4 election, experts say.

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Neo-Nazi group thrives on bad economy

The leader of the largest U.S. neo-Nazi group says he plans to use the economic downturn in Detroit to recruit members.

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Confederate monument defaced in Alabama

A Civil War memorial on the grounds of the Alabama statehouse was vandalized, with the face of a Confederate soldier painted over.

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U.S. attracts foreign hate sites

The United States is playing host to hundreds of foreign-language Internet sites used to spread hate messages outlawed in many countries.

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Barack Obama's election has inflamed racist extremists who see it as another sign that their country is under siege by non-whites
Obama election inspires racist hate groups Feb 26, 2009

I think it's very clear that we're at a worrying moment now, despite the remarkable accomplishment of electing a black man president
Hate groups use Obama election Jan 23, 2009

We've seen everything from cross burnings on lawns of interracial couples to effigies of Obama hanging from nooses to unpleasant exchanges in schoolyards
Post-election racial hate incidents spike Nov 23, 2008

I think the noose is replacing the burning cross in the minds of many white people as the primary symbo
Noose returns as symbol of hate Oct 20, 2007

The Klan is, by and large, being replaced by much harder groups, neo-Nazis and skinheads. The Klan is quite despised by large swaths of the radical rights who tend to be smarter and better educated. They view the Klan as a bunch of rednecks
Killen case could reflect Klan decline Mar 21, 2005

Mark Potok is a spokesman and director of publications and information for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, Alabama, a nonprofit organization that arose from the anti-segregation movement to counter extremism and hate crimes.

He is the editor of quarterly investigative journal Intelligence Report. According to Huffington Post Potok "leads one of the most highly regarded operations monitoring the extreme right in the world today." He has testified before the United States Senate, the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights and in other venues. The son of Joan and Andrew Potok, he grew up in Plainfield, Vermont, and studied at University of Chicago (from 1974 to 1978). He spent almost 20 years as reporter at several newspapers, including USA Today, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Miami Herald.

The Intelligence Report he edits recently received the 2007 Investigative Award part of the UTNE Independent Press Awards.

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