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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh speaks during a town hall event on June 1, 2017 in Boston. file Elise Amendola / AP file

"I didn't want them to get a permit, quite honestly," Walsh said, according to

The permit allows for 100 people to attend. Neither ANSWER Coalition Boston nor Black Lives Matter have acquired permits for the protests.

Walsh later told WGBH Greater Boston that hes confident there will be no violent repeats of Charlottesville, stating that he believed Saturdays group is not the same as those who appeared in Virginia.

This is the second rally planned by the Boston Free Speech Coalition. In May, the event was made up of self-described libertarians and Trump supporters as well as Oathkeepers and American Patriot Three Percenters the latter two groups attended the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville.

John Medlar, one of the organizers, has told multiple media organizations that the rally is not intended for white supremacists, neo-Nazis or members of the Ku Klux Klan and has made it clear that the Boston Free Speech Rally is not for those who attended the protests in Charlottesville. He also claimed the event was for liberals and posted an email he wrote on Facebook that seems to indicate he invited Black Lives Matters Boston chapter to send a speaker.

NBC News was not able to confirm the authenticity of the invitation.

We are seeing this kind of rebranding of what white supremacy is since Charlottesville, but we are not buying this at all, said ANSWER Coalition Boston organizer Kim Barzola.

A number of scheduled speakers who were supposed to attend right-wing firebrands Gavin McInnes and Tim Gionet (also known as Baked Alaska) decided to avoid the rally altogether in light of Charlottesville. Both have shared fears of being labeled white supremacists via social media and claimed to disavow violence.

Current speakers include congressional candidates Shiva Ayyadurai and Samson Racioppi as well as former InfoWars writer Joe Biggs. Kyle Chapman, a California activist who gained notoriety for bashing an Antifa protester with a stick and earned the nickname Based Stickman, will also speak.

Chapman founded the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights, which is to be the tactical defensive arm of McInnes mens-rights organization, the Proud Boys.

Nevertheless, Medlar maintains the rallys aims are nonviolent and will promote free speech for all except hate groups.

"We absolutely denounce the KKK, neo-Nazis, ID Evropa, Vanguard all these legit hate groups. We have nothing to do with them and you dont want them here, we dont want them here, Medlar said, according to

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A Black Lives Matter rally is set for Sunday, August 20th at the West Virginia State Capitol building.

The group C.A.R.E., or Call to Action for Racial Equality, is helping organize the event. Rally organizers want to distinguish this event from other recent protests.

"We'd like to clear up misconceptions of the rally because I think there are concerns that we are wanting to rally around the removal of the Stonewall Jackson statue, but that's definitely not what we were planning to do," C.A.R.E. executive director Gabrielle Chapman said Thursday.

Charleston Police Lt. Scot Blankenship told WSAZ the event will not be near the Stonewall Jackson statue. It will be on the other side of the Capitol building.

Blankenship said the event organizers have been compliant with police to plan the rally.

The event to discuss race relations has been in the works for months. It was originally going to be at West Virginia State University. After the deadly attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, several different groups reached out to C.A.R.E.

"To give accessibility to other organizations, we decided to move it to the Capitol building," Chapman said.

According to police and event organizers, peaceful discussion about race is on the agenda. Speakers and artists will have the floor throughout the event from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

The Capitol grounds prohibit weapons of any kind. That includes sticks that are attached to signs. Police also said bags and backpacks will be subject to search at the rally.

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Jerome Almon via Facebook

Let me preface this by saying that as black people, we always know there is going to be at least one. You know the type. They do the most to set themselves apart from the rest of us black folks because they want to be viewed as different and special. Even if it means selling other black people up the river, they will stand out in their other blackness by any means necessary.

Such is the case of 52-year-old Jerome Almon, a black man who wrote a racially charged email denouncing Black Lives Matter and advocating for the protection of some Confederate monuments. He told the Washington Post that he sent the email to help Donald Trump defend his response to the Charlottesville white supremacy riot and give him ammunition to condemn groups on the left, including Black Lives Matter.

I wanted to help him. This whole political bread and circuses needs to stop, Jerome Almon told the Post. Black Lives Matter is just as racist as the Nazis or the KKK or anyone else.

Were going to end up in a violent civil war, Almon added, saying that the president is our last chance or the violence you saw in Charlottesville is going to get worse.

Almon sent his email to Trump attorney John Dowd, who received it Tuesday night and shared it with government officials, conservative journalists and other administration allies Wednesday.

John Dowd, a veteran of Washington scandals, says his action does not mean he agrees with the

In the email, Almon claimed that Black Lives Matter has been infiltrated by terrorists. He also appeared to echo the presidents claims defending the central goal of the Charlottesville protest, which was led by a group that claims it rallied to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

At a Tuesday news conference, Trump claimed that the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists were not completely to blame for the violent turn of events at the protest and said that there was blame on both sides. Those comments have created some serious political backlash for the president, who not only has not backed down on them but also doubled down on them in further statements.

Almon told the Post in a phone interview that he has previously met Trump, and as a onetime Obama supporter, he has come to support the current president because hes far more right than he is wrong, and hes done far more on average than his opponents.

Almon said that he wanted to provide the president with facts with which to reinforce his argument about Charlottesville, and in the email he even compared George Washington to Lee.

Both owned slaves, Almon wrote. Both rebelled against the ruling government. Both mens battle tactics are still taught at West Point. Both saved America.

Im going to sum up my feelings about Clayton Bigsby Jerome Almon with two words:

Nigga, please.

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Portland, Oregon, sports radio station KXTG-FM fired host Dino Costa aftercomments he made in June advocating for drivers to run over Black Lives Matter protesters with their cars gained national attention, RadioInsight reported this week.

The radio station initially stood by Costa despite the controversial comments, but new backlash in light of the Charlottesville, Virginia, Unite the Right protests led the station to terminate the provocative radio personality. Eugene Weekly posted a transcript of the comments Monday.

You know these protests where they shut down the road, they lie in the road? If Im the cops, I wave the traffic on, Costa said during a June 7 broadcast. Listen, as soon as one or two of these sumbitches are run over youll see the entire, in unison, everybody be up off the street. When people are being killed by 18-wheel trucks coming by, pickups, cars. Run em over!

Those comments took on a new resonance after Heather Heyer, a Charlottesville counterprotester, diedaftera white nationalist protester allegedly drove his vehicle into a crowd Saturday.

As late as Monday, a statement from the station said Costa had been disciplined with aggressive actions at the time of the original comments, but he had not been fired. Costa wasnt fired until Wednesday, after the displeasure of listeners, as well as the University of Oregon and the MLS Portland Timbers franchise, grew.

KXTG has broadcast agreements with the Timbers and University of Oregon football. The agreementswere put in jeopardy once Costas June comments gained more widespread attention. Both organizations strongly condemned Costaand the sentiments he expressed.

Costa has had a history of controversial or offensive takes on radio, and thiswasnt the first time his opinions have cost him a job. He was fired from a St. Louis radio stationearlier this year for his comments and behavior, including saying women dont have a place in sports radio.

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The author of a racially charged email forwarded by President Trumps lawyer said he sent the message in hopes it would help Trump defend his response to Charlottesville, and give the president fodder to go further in condemning groups on the left.

I wanted to help him. This whole political bread and circuses needs to stop, Jerome Almon told The Washington Post. Black Lives Matter is just as racist as the Nazis or the KKK or anyone else.

Almon, 52, who is black, has promoted a range of conspiracy theories online, and claims to have predicted several past terrorist attacks. But he said he crafted his email which was circulated wider Wednesday by Trumps lawyer, John Dowd out of worries that Trump could be taken down over his response to Charlottesville.

Were going to end up in a violent civil war, Almon said. Trump is our last chance or the violence you saw in Charlottesville is going to get worse.

Almons email advocated protection of some Confederate monuments and claimed that the protest group Black Lives Matter had been infiltrated by terrorists.

President Trump on Aug. 15 said that theres blame on both sides for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)

The email concluded: The President should confront the opposition with the facts ... his advisers are moving way [too] slow, and are not aggressive enough.

Dowd received the email Tuesday night, according to a copy Almon provided to The Post. Dowd forwarded the message to administration allies in Washington.

The contents of the email, and the fact that Dowd shared it with government officials, conservative journalists and others, was first reported by the New York Times.

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Dowd, 76, told The Post that he shares a lot of things with people over email and said it was unfair to equate forwarding one message with espousing its contents.

Dowd was recently hired to help Trump respond to an investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He sent the email to administration allies and journalists amid a firestorm over the presidents remarks about the deadly weekend protests in Charlottesville.

The email titled The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville appeared to echo and applaud the controversial claim the president has made in defending a central goal of the protest led by white supremacists. The group said it rallied in the hometown of the University of Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Trump said at a Tuesday news conference that white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members were not entirely to blame for the violent turn of events in Charlottesville on Saturday, where a counterprotester was killed and 19 were injured. Trumps comments and his reluctance to back off from those statements have led to a political backlash.

The email forward by Dowd may raise fresh questions about the way information travels in the orbit of advisers surrounding the president.

In the phone interview Wednesday night, Almon claimed to have previously met Trump, including when Almon was an activist opposing casino development in Detroit.

I believe President Trump probably remembers me, and probably recognizes me, and that was the whole thing I wanted to help him, Almon said. Prior encounters between Almon and Trump could not immediately be verified.

A onetime Obama supporter, Almon said he had come to support Trump because hes far more right than he is wrong, and hes done far more on average than his opponents.

Almon said he sent the email because he felt the president needed more historical facts to buttress his argument about Charlottesville.

His email at one point equates George Washington with Lee: Both owned slaves. Both rebelled against the ruling government. Both mens battle tactics are still taught at West Point. Both saved America.

Almon has a registered business under the name Murdercap Records and was profiled by Rolling Stone in 2007 after he filed an eyebrow-raising $900 million federal lawsuit against the Canadian government, the State Department and then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Almon claimed to have documentation of being racially profiled while trying to cross into Canada. The lawsuit was dismissed, according to federal records.

Almon said he hopes his email refocuses those who read it on more important problems.

We have very serious issues. If you want to get Trump on the issues, fine. Thats what should happen. On the economy? Policy? Fine. But taking him down over statues, when were $20 trillion in debt and about to go to war over North Korea, I cannot take that seriously.

Carol Leonnig and Amy Brittain contributed to this report.

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