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It's Friday, November 29th.

Today, the complicated life of a black activist and how he came to take control of the neo-Nazi group.

What have you been investigating?

The strangest story I've ever worked on. It started out as this tale that came across my desk

back in March about this black activist from California. It seemed to have taken over a neo-Nazi

group in Michigan. Katie Metler is a general assignment reporter for the Post. And back in March,

she published her first story about this black activist, a guy named James Stern. Almost

immediately the story went viral.

New tonight, a black man is in charge of a black man now heading up a neo-Nazi party.

He got shout outs on cable television. Ava Duverne was tweeting about it. He got compared to

the real black clansman. Basically, I get a phone call from a man named Jeff Scoop.

He convinced Jeff Scoop, the longtime commander of the National Socialist Movement.

I have an idea. Give it to me. To sign over the organization. He says it's yours.

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