How W.E.B. Du Bois Resisted Government Repression

Feb 28, 2019

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On August 3, 2017—one week before the violent white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va.—the FBI circulated an internal intelligence assessment on “Black identity extremists,” or BIEs. The Bureau defined BIEs as individuals whose beliefs reflect “anti-authoritarian, Moorish sovereign citizen ideology, and BIE ideology.” The FBI st…