Adrianne Black

Adrianne Black (born Derek Roland Black, 1989) is an American memoirist and former white supremacist. She is the child of Don Black, founder of the Stormfront online community, and godchild of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. Black publicly renounced white nationalism and chronicled her personal journey away from her family's beliefs.

Early life and education Adrianne Black was born in Florida in 1989 and grew up in West Palm Beach. She attended public school until third grade, when her parents took her out of school because her black teacher said the word "ain't". She was homeschooled and her education was centered on her family's beliefs.

At 10 years old, Black began learning web development, which later helped her create a page on the Stormfront site for children with similar ideas to hers. She would receive critical emails and death threats, but her father would tell her not to look at the messages, and Black has said that she was not bothered by what critics were sending her.

She later decided that she had an interest in studying medieval European history, so in 2010, she went to the New College of Florida in Sarasota. The college was about a four-hour drive across the state and it was Black's first time away from her home. She says of her first semesters: "I'd get up in the morning, and call into my dad's radio show ... and talk about the news ... and then go to class and hang out with people who were often strong social justice advocates, and trying to live both of those lives was terrifying because I knew that one day somebody was going to type my name into Google."

Family Black's mother, Chloe Black, is an executive assistant for the founder of the Florida Crystals company and owns a real estate business in South and Central American countries. She has also served as spokeswoman for a charter school, Glades Academy in Pahokee, Florida, financed by Florida Crystals with the aim of lifting minority children out of poverty. Before her marriage to Don Black, she was married to David Duke.

Adrianne Black's father, Don Black, who founded the website Stormfront, remains a white supremacist. He was also a Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan, and a member of the American Nazi Party in the 1970s (for a time, the ANP was known as the National Socialist White Peoples' Party). In 1981, he was convicted of attempting an overthrow of the government of the island country of Dominica using firearms and served three years in jail, from 1981 to 1984.