Sentences with phrase «white nationalists protesting»

Normally, we'd simply be preparing for a new school year, but this year in Albemarle County, the end of summer became something else entirely when a «Unite the Right» gathering of white nationalists protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, the county seat, clashed with counter-demonstrators.

Several top U.S. executives have left President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council in the days following a deadly white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia because of the president's response to it.

White nationalists protest against «cultural appropriation,» as well.

The demonstration will be a show of unity against bigotry, hate and racism in the wake of a white nationalist protest protecting a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va..

President Donald Trump signed a resolution condemning white supremacists and hate groups, hours after reviving his assertion that there were «bad dudes» among those opposing a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month.

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Google and GoDaddy both dropped domain registration for the hate publisher dailystormer.com, after the site published a disgusting article denigrating Heather Heyer, who was killed protesting the white nationalist rally.

White nationalists and neo-Nazis descended on Charlottesville over the weekend to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The white nationalist group called the Traditional Workers Party has also promised to show up to counter protest, though they haven't said if they will be armed.

On Aug. 14, Trump issued a stronger condemnation of the white supremacists and nationalists and neo-Nazis who planned the rally to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

That plan prompted a similar protest in May, led by the white nationalist Richard B. Spencer, as well as a Ku Klux Klan rally in July.

Trump had said publicly that white nationalists and neo-Nazi sympathizers shared blame for violence with those who came out to protest them.

Kenneth C. Frazier, chief executive of Merck, the pharmaceuticals company, on Monday resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council after the president failed to directly condemn the white nationalist protesters at the center of violent protests in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo took direct aim at the president for his Charlottesville remarks, name checking him in a Daily News OpEd, and writing: «No, President Trump, there can be no moral equivalence between white nationalists and activists who protest against racism.»

White nationalists had gathered in the city Saturday, in part, to protest.

In Wednesday's new episode of South Park, the show tackled head on the issues raised by the Charlottesville protests by having groups of white nationalists demonstrating to get their jobs back.