Aug. 14, 2017
In a column, Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld wrote: “Since the election of Donald J. Trump, the reported incidents of hate crimes in nine metropolitan areas increased by more than 20 percent according to a study conducted by Brian Levin...
Aug. 14, 2017
Brian Levin, a criminologist and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, said that the Charlottesville, Va., attack could be prosecuted as either a hate crime or an act of domestic...
Aug. 14, 2017
Brian Levin, director for the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism based at Cal State San Bernardino, explains in a radio interview whether there has been an uptick in the number hate groups within the past year.
Aug. 14, 2017
The internet has long been fertile ground for extremists looking to congregate and recruit. But while big internet companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google have taken seriously the task of combatting Islamist terrorist groups such...
Aug. 15, 2017
Hundreds of white nationalists took to the streets over the weekend to protest the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue. But members of a controversial opposing group, known as Antifa, also showed up to condemn hate and racism. Antifa...
Aug. 14, 2017
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, and Ryan Lenz, of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, define what white nationalism and white supremacy is. The violence...
Aug. 14, 2017
As more becomes public about the man suspected of driving a car into a group of people protesting against white supremacists, killing one protestor and injuring many others, the online news site interviewed Brian Levin, director of Cal...
Aug. 14, 2017
It remains unclear what will happen to the racist movement that has been energized by the election of President Trump and was laid out for all to see in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend. But one thing seems certain: The fighting...
Aug. 14, 2017
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions denounced the violence in Charlottesville, Va., as an “evil” act of domestic terrorism on Monday, he was in some ways an unlikely figure to emerge as one of the most prominent voices in the Trump...
Aug 14, 2017
President Donald Trump’s slow response to the deadly white-nationalist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, was shocking to many politicians, experts on extremism and even members of his own party, but nobody could call it surprising...
Aug. 15, 2017
The violence in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend raises questions whether a similar situation could happen in Southern California. KPCC talked with Brian Levin, a professor of criminal justice, who directs the nonpartisan Center...
Aug. 14, 2017
On the show AirTalk, Larry Mantle and a panel of guests that included Brian Levin, professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, examined...