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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A man who drove his car into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, a verdict that local civil rights activists hope will help heal a community still scarred by the violence and the racial tensions it inflamed nationwide. A state jury rejected […]

The second Unite the Right rally was held in D.C. over the weekend and the turnout was much smaller than last year. Only “two people showed up to the Unite the Right rally two”, now that’s ironic. And those two people who attended were, “David and Duke.” READ MORE STORIES ON BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM: SIGN UP FOR […]

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The first African-American police chief of Charlottesville, Virginia, abruptly retired Monday, about two weeks after a scathing independent review criticized his “slow-footed response” to violence at a white nationalist rally this summer. In a brief statement, the city did not give a reason for Chief Al Thomas‘ departure, which was effective immediately. “Nothing in my […]