Mark Potok

Mark Potok is an expert on the radical right based in Montgomery, Ala. Now at work on a book, he was an official of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization known for monitoring the extreme right, for 20 years.��ݰ��

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A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT

The Hideous People Behind a ‘Heinously Ugly’ Klansman Statue

Those people had to die before, for once, the Lost Cause finally, actually lost something.

Mark Potok

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Farrakhan Calls the Vaccine the White Man’s ‘Death Plan’

The Nation of Islam leader is telling Black people not only that the vaccine isn’t safe—it’s part of a plot to rid the world of millions of non-white people.

Mark Potok

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This Is Who Serves and Protects Bad Cops

We know that problem cops are tough to fire. The reason—their unions. That has to change. Now.

Mark Potok

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The Strange History of the Group Tied to Jersey City Murders

Perhaps the most bizarre thing about Black Hebrew Israelism is the way it mirrors, with only a change in color, the ideas of Christian Identity.

Mark Potok

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TIP OF THE ICEBERG

The Creepy Racist Network Behind Trump Aide Stephen Miller

The White House aide’s emails frightened America, and rightly so. But the bigger story is a vast racist network that has shocking reach into the GOP.

Mark Potok