White Lives Matter, an organisation set up in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, is to be listed as a race hate group by campaigners.

The Southern Poverty Law Centre said it will include the organisation when it produces its hate map next February.

"I can't speak to how many chapters will be listed, but it's clear that the leadership of the group, the ends of the group -- it's just a flat-out white supremacist group,” Heidi Beirich, director of the centre's Intelligence Report told the Houston Chronicle.