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The driving force behind hate groups

10pm FRONTLINE - One of Americaís leading news documentary series, Frontline offers a compelling look at complex, vital and often-controversial subjects.

  • DOCUMENTATING HATE: CHARLOTTESVILLE - An investigation reveals some white supremacists and neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville, Va., rally go unpunished and continue their operations around the country.

https://youtu.be/7KpqKpUxBqUFor the past year, FRONTLINE and ProPublica have been investigating the white supremacists at the center of last August's infamous and deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. This joint reporting has already shed new and troubling light on the events of August 11 and 12, 2017 ó revealing that one participant in the violence, Vasillios Pistolis, was an active-duty Marine, and that another, Michael Miselis, worked for a major defense contractor and held a U.S. government security clearance.DOCUMENTING HATE: CHARLOTTESVILLE reveals the investigation into why, nearly a year after the rally, many of the perpetrators of racist violence have not been held accountable; tracing the origins and actions of the white supremacist groups they belong to; and revealing how a series of violent clashes involving those very same individuals and groups preceded the deadly rally in Charlottesville. 

White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
White nationalist demonstrators at Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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White nationalist demonstrators at Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.

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Mia Laurenzo is a 30-year veteran of public television in Miami. She began her career learning every aspect of video production. Currently she is a writer, producer, on-air host and promotions coordinator for TV, radio and the web. Her experiences include producing for a series, special events and historical documentaries. As a native Floridian, she is a perfect fit for South Florida's Storyteller Station, WLRN. She has produced award winning, nationally distributed documentaries like Journey to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade where one year she followed a high school band and a clown as they prepared for the big day and the next year, she had the privilege of being a clown herself. Previously, she produced Weird Florida: On the Road Again, a sequel to the highly successful show Weird Florida: Roads Less Traveled, where the cast and crew travel over 1,500 miles searching the Sunshine State’s weirdest and wackiest places. On a more serious note and what she considers to be her most important work, she produced Out of Darkness, Into Light, a documentary on child sexual abuse,which delved into the lives of three adult survivors, a show in which she was awarded her first of two Emmys.