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Prof. Aki Maehara poses for a photo before speaking at the Chinese American Museum Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Hate groups in the US decline but their influence grows, report shows

The number of white nationalist, hate and anti-government groups around the U.S. dropped slightly in 2024, not because of any shrinking influence but rather the opposite.
 
FILE - A sticker saying "Keep Sapelo Geechee" is worn on the shirt of George Grovner, a resident of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island, during a meeting of McIntosh County commissioners, Sept. 12, 2023, in Darien, Ga. On Thursday, Oct. 12, Black residents of the tiny island enclave founded by their enslaved ancestors off the Georgia coast filed suit seeking to halt a new zoning law that they say will raise taxes and force them to sell their homes in one of the South's last surviving Gullah-Geechee communities. (AP Photo/Ross Bynum, File)

Slave descendants are suing to fight zoning changes they say threaten their island homes off Georgia

 
Residents, landowners and supporters of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island fill a courtroom in Darien, Ga., on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, as McIntosh County commissioners meet to approve zoning changes that some fear will endanger the Gullah-Geechee enclave founded by formerly enslaved people. Commissioners voted to double the size of homes allowed in the tiny community, raising concerns that rising property values and tax increases will force out the indigenous population. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

Slave descendants vow to fight on after Georgia county approves larger homes for island enclave

 

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