::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

By Mona Austin It looked like a page from a 1960s history book:  A drove of alt-right protesters (est. 1500-2000) descended on Charlottesville, VA causing a violent ruckus on Saturday that ended with one woman dead and multiple others injured at a "Unite the Right" rally.   An overwhelming majority of them were  young it appeared and hungry for a fight.  The fight to  preserve monuments and symbols from the Civil War Era brought them there.  Antebellum slave heritage -- painful heritage that millions would voluntarily erase were it that simple --  is a part of the symbols they wish to protect -- reminding many of America's darkest hour. In President Donald Trump's America scenarios of opposing factions facing off are becoming more common place. In Charlottesville, the assembly consisted of various alt-right, White Nationalist, College Republicans and KKK groups with similar ideology.  It was reportedly one of the largest such public gat...

Conflict between citizens, students and white nationalists came to a head in the form of a protest at the University of Virginia Friday night.  Earlier this summer me mbers of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in North Carolina, held a rally in Charlottesville on July 8 to protest the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park.   Citizens faced off with a small crowd sending the message that hate was not welcome in the family-friendly college town.  But this time, a torch carrying crowd of racists returned enforce, chanting, "White lives matter"  and "You will not replace us."  Police dispersed the crowd based on unlawful assembly.  Most of the protestors were men.  Their movement is called "Unite the Right." P rotests stemming from the removal of Civil War era statues that conservatives viewed as symbols of their heritage were held at various times all over the country after statues were removed ...