Her name is Heather Heyer. Today is the one-year anniversary of her death. She died while peacefully protesting a hate rally in Charlottesville, Virginia after a car mowed her down. In the midst of vile and vitriolic hate and violence she stood amid a large crowd for compassion and kindness, inclusion and diversity, justice and peace.
It has been four-hundred and eighteen days since Donald Trump has been sworn into office as President. Since that time, Americans have been treated to what is aptly described as a reality-show presidency with all of the trappings. Each day brings new revelations about Trump’s campaign and its possible and likely involvement with Russia in…
“They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what? You just magnified her,” Heyer’s mother Susan Bro said to long and loud applause from those gathered at the city’s 1930s era Paramount Theater.
Instead of attending the memorial service for Heather Heyer, Donald Trump did the bare minimum by tweeting about her once.
People carrying guns to provide security in the event of far-right protesters stand outside the memorial service for Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia
A 32-year-old woman killed when a suspected white nationalist crashed his car into anti-racist demonstrators in Charlottesville was being remembered on Wednesday at a memorial service in this southern U.S. college town.
A candlelight vigil for Heather Heyer, who lost her life in the white supremacist domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, VA, has been canceled after racists threatened more violence.