At Least 160 Confederate Symbols Removed In 2020, SPLC Says
When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn't encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee.
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When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn't encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee.
A federal judge has thrown out a Baltimore lawyer's lawsuit accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of defaming him in an article and a "hate map" that tied him to a neo-Nazi group.
The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 954 active hate groups, a 4-percent jump, and 19 of those organizations were connected to people in Maryland.
The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center reported a sharp increase in neo-Nazi groups in the U.S., from 99 in 2016 to 121 last year.
