This Former White Supremacist Is Helping Others Leave Hate Behind

As a 14-year-old in 1980s Chicago, Christian Picciolini was ripe for recruitment into a hate group: He was bullied, didn’t have a lot of friends and felt “abandoned” by his Italian immigrant parents who worked long hours. One day, when he was standing in an alley smoking a joint, a car pulled up, and a man with a shaved head came out, pulled the joint out of his mouth and said: “Don’t you know that’s what the Jews and the Communists want you to do to keep you docile?” That...