Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, USA

In August 2017, violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, during two days of demonstrations by white supremacists, neo—Nazis, and counterprotesters, including members of antifa and Black Lives Matter. Ostensibly motivated by the city’s plans to remove Confederate statues from two public parks, members of the alt—right descended first on the University of Virginia and then, disastrously, on the city’s downtown. As these violent and ultimately deadly events gripped the attention of the n...