Photojournalists on the Unite the Right Rally 3 Years on and more…

Become a Patron! This is a special crossover episode of the Visu.News and Around the Lens podcasts. We’re recording this on the third anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville that ended in the death of Heather Heyer and severe injuries to dozens more.  I’m here with a handful of photojournalists who were…

Fascists March on Washington DC, With Help of Police

Saturday, February, 8th in Washington DC150 fascists marched from Arlington, VA over a bridge past the Lincoln memorial past the African American history museum and then rallied in front of the US Capitol.

UPDATE: Check Out this C’Ville Police Car

UPDATE: I’m a hack and a fraud. I didn’t check if the CVille Police had bowed to public pressure or not… I never thought that they would. But it seems that they will take the car out of the fleet next year. From The Daily Progress on 12/12/2019: “We felt it was appropriate to review…

White Supremacy Knows No State Lines

I live in Upstate New York. A family down the road from me decided to use their children’s side walk chalk to draw a four foot by six foot  Confederate flag on the road on Easter Sunday. These same people had a Confederate flag that said “Come and Take It” and had a AR-15 on…

New York Times Puff Piece on White Supremacist is Dangerous

Support Visu.News Become a Patron! by Zach D Roberts This weekend the New York Times published a profile of a white supremacist named Tony Hovater. Mr. Hovater is the co-founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, one of the hate groups that jackbooted into Charlottesville in August of 2017, they also stomped into Shelbyville, TN.  The Visu.News crew…

Remembering Charlottesville One Month Later

It was a long weekend for all of us. The story of Charlottesville wasn’t supposed to be like this. Most of us journalists expected to be on our way home soon after the ‘Unite the Right’ rally. Very few had booked hotels for Saturday night. It was supposed to be yet another face-off between the…

Law Enforcement is AWOL in Charlottesville

Originally written and photographed for NationofChange.org This is part two of a two part series (at least for now) questioning the motives and intentions of the law enforcement agencies surrounding the attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia in August. Read part one here. If you’ve read my previous pieces for NationofChange, you’d know I was on the ground…

Visu.News Co-Founder on Democracy Now!

Co-founder of Visu.News, Zach D Roberts, appeared on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! discussing his work in Charlottesville, VA. Democracy Now! Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Another suspect in the brutal beating of a young African-American man during the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,…