Richard Cohen

Hardtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law Centre, a group devoted to civil rights activism. Neo-Nazism, and race hatred are alive and kicking in the United States. The violence in Charlottesville was shocking not just because a life was taken, but also because of the polarising impact of President Trump's response. Fault lines which almost broke the US in the Civil War have not been erased. How fanciful is the notion of a 21st century American civil war?