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• 'Bring The War Home' Shows 'Lone Wolf' Terrorists Are Really Part Of A Pack (7 min)
  Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviews Kathleen Belew, author of Bring the War Home. "It's called Bring the War Home because that provided the clearest way of thinking about a problem I ran into in the archive," Belew says, "which is that Klansmen and neo-Nazis committing violence in the United States — ranging from veterans to those who didn't serve in the war — commonly understood the Vietnam War and invoked the war to describe why they chose the activism they did, and to frame their tactics and their uses of violence in many different contexts." See also "How America's White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War", NPR Fresh Air, 4/25/2018
• A Former Neo-Nazi Explains Why Hate Drew Him In — And How He Got Out (44 min)
  NPR WHYY Fresh Air, Jan. 18, 2018. Host Dave Davies interviews Christian Picciolini, who was 14 years old when he attended the first gathering of what would become the Hammerskin Nation, a violent, white-power skinhead group. Looking back, he describes his introduction to the group as receiving a "lifeline of acceptance." In 2011 co-founded Life After Hate, a nonprofit that counsels members of hate groups and helps them disengage. He has recently authored a book, White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement - And How I Got Out
• BBC World Service - Why are some women drawn to extremist groups? (audio, 10 min)
  Yasmin Mulbocus is a former member of an Islamist group in London. Angela King is a former member of a white supremacist group in the US. They were both drawn to extremist ideology when they were teenagers and have shared their experiences with Newshour. Posted on Oct 22, 2014 by BBC World Service Radio
• California white supremacists vowed to ‘reimagine’ racist movements with new look and secretive tactics
  Alene Tchekmedyian and Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, Oct 25, 2018 From the beginning, the founders of the so-called Rise Above Movement had a goal: to reinvent what it meant to be a white nationalist.
• Derek Black email to SPLC Director Mark Potok, July 15, 2013
  Derek Black was groomed from birth to assume leadership of the white nationalist movement, but in 2013 he publically renounced his affiliation in a letter to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. To get a sense of just what an enormous break this was, Yahoo News interviewed Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich, who said: "You couldn’t really be more deep in the white supremacist movement than Derek was. So him leaving the movement — he was white supremacy royalty. If David Duke’s godson can leave it, so can others." Recently, The Washington Post published an in-depth examination of Derek’s white nationalist upbringing and his slow evolution towards eventually renouncing it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-derek-black/2016/10/15/ed5f906a-8f3b-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html).
• Documenting Hate - two films from PBS Frontline and ProPublica
• Hate in America
  By Catherine Devine and Lillianna Byington
  News21 investigates a growing climate of hate in the United States through analysis of national crime victimization data and on-the-ground reporting by 38 reporters in 36 states.
  
• How America's White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War (37 min)
  NPR WFMY Fresh Air, 4/25/2018. Host Terry Gross speaks with Kathleen Belew, who has spent more than 10 years studying America's White Power movement. Belew traces the movement's rise to the end of the Vietnam War and the feeling among some "white power" veterans that the country had betrayed them.
• Life After Hate
  Life After Hate, Inc., a 501(c)(3) U.S. nonprofit, was created in 2011 by former members of the American violent far-right extremist movement. Through powerful stories of transformation and unique insight gleaned from decades of experience, we serve to inspire, educate, guide, and counsel.
• The Real Black Klansman (14 min)
  Snap Judgment, https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/snapjudgment, March 6, 2020
  A black detective in Colorado Springs infiltrates the KKK and finds himself face-to-face with David Duke, the Grand Wizard.
  Thank you, Detective Ron Stallworth for sharing your epic story with Snap. You can read more about Ron's story in his book, Black Klansman: A Memoir.
  Produced and scored by Davey Kim
  
• The Silver Dollar Lounge (22 min)
  Snap Judgment, March 6, 2020
  Daryl Davis is a boogie-woogie pianist who's played with Bill Clinton, Bruce Hornsby and Chuck Berry. But we wanted to talk to him about another group of his friends...
  Big thanks to Daryl Davis. Check out Daryl's book about his experiences called "Klandestine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Klu Klux Klan".
  Produced by Nick van der Kolk, original score by Leon Morimoto
  
• The white flight of Derek Black
  Eli Saslow, The Washington Post, Oct. 15, 2016 Years before Donald Trump launched a presidential campaign based in part on the politics of race and division, a group of avowed white nationalists was working to make his rise possible by pushing its ideology from the radical fringes ever closer to the far conservative right. Many attendees in Memphis had transformed over their careers from Klansmen to white supremacists to self-described “racial realists,” and Derek Black represented another step in that evolution.
• White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out
  Christian Picciolini, Hachette Books, Oct 24, 2017 A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error of his ways and abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.