In the wake of the civil rights protests in Jena, Louisiana, white supremacists groups have “flooded” the town, according to the Chicago Tribune‘s Howard Witt. In an interview with the leader of a Mississippi white-supremacist group, Jena’s mayor praised counterdemonstrations organized by “pro-white” organizations, calling them “moral support.” And former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has vowed to support the town’s white residents, who voted in his favor when he ran for governor in 1991.

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–Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.