Even as they rail against the election of the nation’s first black president, some white supremacist leaders are claiming that people have flocked to their organizations since Barack Obama’s victory.
“The League of the South is reporting a surge in new members within hours of the results from yesterday’s elections,” proclaimed an E-mail that the neo-Confederate [...]

The family of a taser victim, Baron Pikes, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against former Louisiana police officer Scott Nugent, Louisiana city officials, and Taser International in relation to a police brutality incident earlier this year.
The wrongful death lawsuit was filed by Pikes’ wife. He had a four-year-old child who will now grow up fatherless.
Baron [...]

By Annie Murphy
Tocaña, Bolivia — On a recent morning, drummers paraded through this mountain village perched amid steep fields of coffee and coca leaf, while women dressed in indigenous white skirts trimmed with colored ribbons sang proudly about their African descent.
Following a Catholic mass, this Afro-Bolivian community of 400 residents located three hours north of [...]

A new black-power movement in Central and South America
By Joe Contreras
Pambazuka News
Hugo Chávez is known as a revolutionary in many contexts, especially in his defiance of the United States. In recent years however he’s also broken ground on a far less well-exposed subject: the question of race in Latin America. The saga began two years [...]

This time, he finally went too far.
At least that’s what federal officials apparently concluded when they charged neo-Nazi leader Bill White, the threat-spewing former anarchist from Roanoke, Va., with obstructing justice on Friday. As first reported by Hatewatch on Sept. 12, the leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party had posted the name, home [...]