The Path To Radicalization

In the aftermath of her son's arrest for beating a counter-protestor at 2017's Unite the Right rally, an Arkansas mother is propelled deeper into the White Nationalist movement her son had joined.

Story producer and co-editor • 2018

Jacob Goodwin, a self-proclaimed white nationalist, was charged with injuring a black counterprotester in the wake of the August Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. As Goodwin awaits trial, his parents become increasingly more involved in Goodwin's extremist group, following a gradual path to their own radicalization. New to Left Field?