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While recent events have white supremacy once again front and center, extremism comes in an assortment of colors and creeds. So we must all be alert to dog whistles in public discourse and rebuke politicians who send barely-coded messages of “us” against “them” because “we” are are the chosen ones.

Various racist incidents that have occurred recently show that we must study lynchings so that history doesn't repeat itself.

The number of hate groups in Maryland and across the country grew in 2018 to its highest level on record, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported Wednesday. In Maryland, new groups included four black nationalist groups, the Proud Boys and a mix of Ku Klux Klan, neo-nazi and white nationalists.

In the year since four Baltimore Confederate statues were removed, in dramatic, middle-of-the-night fashion, what has changed?

Attacks like the recent assault on members of a Jewish fraternity at Towson part of a troubling uptick in hate crimes.

Southern Poverty Law Center classifies 19 organizations in Maryland as hate groups:.

Richard Wilson Preston Jr. denied the Ku Klux Klan was a violent hate group. He is accused of firing a handgun at the Charlottesville rally.

How does the Southern Poverty Law Center go about declaring American organizations to be hate groups?

On Sunday, a 17-year-old girl wearing the traditional abaya was beaten and killed by a man as she and friends left an IHOP in Virginia. Earlier they had

The first bomb threat was called in to the Park Heights Jewish Community Center at 11:45 a.m. on Jan. 9th, a frigid Monday morning. Danielle Spiro was in St. Louis on business, and her husband was at work in D.C. Their 3-year-old daughter, Eva, however, was at the JCC's Early Childhood Center, along with dozens of other children ranging in age from infant to 4. They were quickly swept from the building and taken to a secret location while Baltimore police scoured the facility.

The office of Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has received a dozen reports of hate speech in the week since he asked people to report such incidents.

I am reminded of German Jews who watched evil gather itself against them, all the while assuring one another that their country would soon return to its senses.

Julian Bond, a civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the Baltimore-based NAACP, died Saturday night, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

If the Republican Party hopes to continue its own moment of success, it must resolve to forever lose the dog whistle it borrowed from the Dixiecrats long ago and re-embrace its civil rights legacy.