The counterprotesters stood in front of the “It’s OK to be white” banner, blocking it with their own signs, and shouted over Blanchard’s megaphone. “Black lives matter.

Ward has said he holds the banner as a way of “taking a stand against people making nasty remarks towards white people and anti-white sentiment.” “I’m not saying it’s better to be white ...

The attorney general’s office went after NSC-131, the group that hung a “Keep New England White” banner from an overpass in 2022, but the courts rejected the case on free speech grounds.