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Tune in to a Donald Trump rally and there’s a decent chance you’ll see Maurice Symonette — better known as Michael the Black Man — standing front and center behind the president while waving his hand-drawn “Blacks for Trump” sign. He was there through much of the presidential campaign and then again last night in Phoenix, wildly cheering during CNN’s live feed as Trump trashed the press and defended his pro-neo-Nazi remarks after Charlottesville.

The 2016 GOP presidential primary proved Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t particularly great at thinking on his feet. He was infamously nicknamed “Robot Rubio” after getting caught repeating the same, scripted anti-Obama talking point four different times during the debates last year. Robot Rubio was then immortalized on The Simpsons, in what we hope will be the only video clip of Lil’ Marco that survives the coming nuclear winter.

On September 7, Frank Meeink, a former skinhead leader and neo-Nazi recruiter, will “speak out against hate” at Eckerd College, sponsored by the Florida Holocaust Museum. After serving time in prison, where he befriended fellow inmates of other races, he became an activist, denouncing white supremacy and right-wing extremism. Weeks after the August 12 terror attack in Charlottesville, the reformed skinhead will comment on the escalating violence in America.

Planning on getting a marriage license, paying a traffic ticket in person, or filing a motion for the eviction of your tenants? That’s about to become much more difficult in Miami-Dade County.

When Broward County state Rep. Shevrin Jones protested in Hollywood, Florida, to demand the city rename streets honoring former Confederate generals and a Ku Klux Klan leader, a group of counterprotesters shouted racial slurs at him, calling him a “nigger” and a “monkey” and telling him to “go back where [he] came from.”

On September 7, the Miami-Dade Commission will convene to review the mayor’s proposed budget, which includes cuts to transit funding. Protesting the cuts are members of the Transit Alliance, who believe the new budget will cripple Miami’s public transit system.

Yesterday, in the wake of the Charlottesville violence, Tallahassee mayor and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum begged Gov. Rick Scott to take down a Confederate memorial in Tallahassee’s Old Capitol. Scott’s spokesperson sheepishly told reporters the governor had “received” Gillum’s statement. Nothing else.