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In their own words: Charlottesville, one year later

There's a lot I remember about August 12. The sound of low-hovering helicopters. The choking taste of smoke and pepper spray. The echoing crack of clubs against a young man's skull. A wail of terror. A street clogged with bodies and blood. There are also things I don't remember, a part of the day that trauma wiped away.
Nicole Hemmer
POLITICO

What Charlottesville Changed

In the year since the alt-right descended on Charlottesville, the movement has collapsed. Organizations like the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Worker Party have disbanded, Richard Spencer has abandoned his campus tour and Jason Kessler, the organizer of last year’s Unite the Right rally, has found himself an outcast from the movement he’d hoped to define.
Nicole Hemmer
PBS NewsHour

One year after violent white supremacist rally, Charlottesville activists focus on racial justice

One year ago this weekend, Charlottesville, Virginia was the scene of violent clashes between white supremacists holding a rally in the city's downtown and counter-protesters. But what has changed in the city since the summer of 2017? Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia and the host of the podcast A12, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.
Nicole Hemmer
Richmond Times-Dispatch

'All that is evil': 2017 white nationalist rally revived boyhood memories of Nazi Germany for retired UVA scholar

The white nationalist march and violent confrontation with counterprotesters the next day was “shattering” to a man who had dedicated a career of more than 50 years to rule of law and the role of civil liberties in national life. “His first statement to me was, ‘I can’t believe I’m living it again,’ ” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at U.Va.’s Miller Center and a member of the “Tribe of Abraham,” as his devoted former students call themselves. “It was so poignant.”
Barbara Perry