10 things you need to know today: August 11, 2018

Anti-racist activists rally in Charlottesville a year later, Trump's endorsement fails to secure a quick win in Kansas, and more

Mourners embrace in front of the hand-written chalk messages that line the walls outside the buildings where one year ago Heather Heyer was killed by a speeding vehicle driven by a white supr
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1. Anti-racist activists rally in Charlottesville a year later

Anti-racist activists will rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday, a year after the white nationalist "Unite the Right" demonstration plunged the city into turmoil. In August of 2017, white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia campus chanting Nazi slogans. The next morning, their clashes with counter-protesters turned violent, culminating in the death of Heather Heyer, 32, who was killed when she was hit by a car driven by a white supremacist who plowed into a crowd. Charlottesville will be subject to a heavy police presence this weekend, and the primary organizer of last year's white nationalist event was denied a permit for a concurrent demonstration this year.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.