“Frontline: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville”
Tuesday, August 7, 10 p.m.

August 11 will mark the one year anniversary of the Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally that left 34 injured and one dead.

In the aftermath of the rally, PBS Frontline and ProPublica investigated the white supremacist and neo-Nazis who participated in the hate-fueled event.

“Frontline: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville” is the first of a two-part series that revealed the identities of two rally participants-- one an active-duty Marine and the other a major defense contractor. Vasillios Pistolis, the active-duty Marine, has since been convicted at a court of Martial. Meanwhile Michael Miselis, the aforementioned defense contractor, has since been released from his position as aerospace engineer for Northrop Grumman.

The investigative efforts behind these revelations were a joint commitment between Frontline and ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom.

“Documenting Hate,” the title of the series, is a part of an ongoing effort by ProPublica in order to properly record hate-related violence -- of which according to ProPublica, “there is no reliable national data . . . and no government agency documents lower-level incidents of harassment and intimidation.”

In light of this deficiency, ProPublica has made it their mission to create a “national coalition of news organizations intent on reporting the nature and scope of hate crimes and bias incidents in the United States” as per the Documenting Hate official site. This effort is made possible through the partnership of news sources such as “PBS NewsHour,” “Frontline,” and a number of local PBS affiliate stations.

“Frontline: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville” airs Tuesday, August 7 at 10 p.m.

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