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Idaho's Lone Black Lawmaker Receives KKK Mailing

AP | Posted 04.10.2012

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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho's only black lawmaker said she received a direct mailing from the Ku Klux Klan that has bolstered her resolve to fight prej...

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Flier Of Superintendent In KKK Robe Sparks Outcry Amid School Closure Debate

Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Atlanta School Closures, Video, School Overcrowding, Atlanta Public Schools, Black Schools, Budget Cuts, Atlanta Schools Cheating, Ku Klux Klan, Kkk, Erroll Davis, Slidepollajax, Closing Schools, School Closings, School Closure, Education News

From a contentious school redistricting debate among Atlanta Public Schools has emerged an even more controversial flier that depicts APS Superintende...

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White Supremacist Running For Sheriff

AP | By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Shaun Winkler, Video, White Power Sheriff, White Power, Bonner Couty Sheriff, White Supremacist Sheriff, Ku Klux Klan, Crime News

SANDPOINT, Idaho -- He has been an Aryan Nations member and Ku Klux Klan leader, and now Shaun Winkler wants to be the sheriff in a rural Idaho county...

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Alleged Ohio KKK Member Arrested For Threatening Black Man

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2012

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By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND, March 28 (Reuters) - A man wearing Ku Klux Klan clothing was arrested in the small community of Mount Victory...

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KKK Member Running For Local Sheriff

AP | Posted 03.19.2012

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SANDPOINT, Idaho -- A white supremacist in northern Idaho wants to be the next Bonner County sheriff, saying federal overreach motivated him to run fo...

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Number Of U.S. Hate Groups Is Rising

The New York Times | KIM SEVERSON | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, Mark Potok, Ku Klux Klan, Occupy Movement, Anti-Government Groups, Daryl Johnson, Politics News

Fed by antagonism toward President Obama, resentment toward changing racial demographics and the economic rift between rich and poor, the number of so...

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A Neo-Nazi in the GOP: Where's the Outrage From On High?

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.01.2012

Arthur Jones, a neo-Nazi, outspoken anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, wants to be a Republican congressman from the Land of Lincoln.

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KKK Membership Surges In Colorado

Posted 02.28.2012

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The KKK says their membership is “booming” in Colorado, with 12 white supremacist groups active in the state, according to a report by The Durango...

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Billionaire Links KKK With Public Education

Randy Turner | Posted 04.13.2012

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In the middle of a speech in which he demanded an end to teacher tenure, retired billionaire Rex Sinquefield unleashed the following bombshell: The K...

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Why Cardinal George Can Say Such Outrageous Things

Marianne T. Duddy-Burke | Posted 03.09.2012

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Change must come from a rejection of current structures and the empowerment of Catholic lay people.

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Judge: Black Church Rightful Owner Of KKK Store

AP | MEG KINNARD | Posted 03.04.2012

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the ...

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GOP Candidate's Slogan Has Very Controversial Past

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- It's the type of coincidence every politician dreads. On Tuesday, political commenters reported that one of Romney's go-to campaign cat...

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'Mississippi Burning' Klansman Confessed To Murders: Inmate

Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Edgar Ray Killen, Ku Klux Klan, Edgar Ray Killen Kkk, Mississippi Crime, Edgar Ray Killen Confession, Edgar Ray Killen House Arrest, Mississippi Burning, Civil Rights, Crime News

Edgar Ray Killen, who was convicted of killing three civil rights workers in 1964, allegedly wrote confessions to a former inmate, but the reputed Kla...

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Man Arrested For Burning Cross In Driveway

newsherald.com | Posted 11.17.2011

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A burning cross in a family's yard is no laughing matter. But a Florida man may have managed to create some humor using a symbol that has such a solem...

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For Unsolved Civil Rights Era Killers Time Is Formidable Accomplice

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Murder, Till, Hate Crimes, Cold Case, Civl Rights, Ku Klux Klan, African Americans, Crime News

Time is quickly running out to right the wrongs of a bygone era where the most vicious form of violence and hate ran rampant with seeming impunity.

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Unmasking Halloween and the Power of Anonymity

Sam Sommers | Posted 12.29.2011

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While there may be a variety of reasons why Halloween has come to be a time of pranks, mischief, and even more serious forms of misbehavior, disguise certainly plays a major role.

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Ku Klux Klan 'Buster' Dies At 94

AP | TERRY SPENCER | Posted 10.27.2011

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MIAMI — Author and folklorist Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan six decades ago and exposed its secrets to authorities and the p...

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Klansman Who Almost Got Away With Murder Dies in Prison

Mark Potok | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, James Ford Seale, Mississippi White Knights, Freedom Summer, Ku Klux Klan, Kkk, Politics News

James Ford Seale, a long-time member of the Ku Klux Klan who very nearly got away with murder, has died after serving less than four years of three life sentences for the 1964 murders of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, both 19.

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Reputed Klansman Dies In Jail

AP | JACK ELLIOTT JR. | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, White Supremacists, Mississippi, James Ford Seale, Ku Klux Klan, Charles Eddie Moore, Henry Hezekiah Dee, Mississippi Burning, Crime News

JACKSON, Miss. — James Ford Seale, who was convicted and imprisoned decades after the segregation-era abduction and killing of two young black m...

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Not Good But Getting Better: A Small Southern Town Tries To Shake Memories Of Klan Violence

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 07.18.2011

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From Black Voices ANNISTON, Ala. - Down highway 202 on a patch of land not far from where old Forsythe's grocery store used to be, there's a dead e...

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Black Man Allegedly Sent 'KKK Warning' To City Officials

Posted 06.10.2011

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A black man in southern Illinois has been charged with conveying false threats to city officials, for allegedly penning letters signed as "KKK warning...

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Barbour-Backed Civil Rights Museum Approved By Mississippi Lawmakers

AP | By SHELIA BYRD | Posted 06.04.2011

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JACKSON, Miss. -- Lawmakers on Monday approved a bill authorizing the multimillion-dollar construction of two new Mississippi museums – one devo...

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LA Judge Admonished For KKK Joke In Court

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- A Superior Court judge in Los Angeles has been admonished for a comment referring to the Ku Klux Klan in a case involving two African-A...

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Un-American, Anti-Muslim Hearings Serve No Useful Purpose

Rep. Bobby Rush | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rep. Keith Ellison, Sheriff Lee Baca, Weather Underground, Bobby Rush, Terry Nichols, Terrorists, Rep. Peter King, Muslims, Timothy McVeigh, Ku Klux Klan, Arlington National Cemetery, Muslim Americans, WW II Internment Camps, Denis McDonough, Ted Kaczynski, Japanese Americans, Eric Rudolph, Politics News

I want my Muslim brothers and sisters to know that Thursday was not a day that brought honor to the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Haley Barbour Refuses to Denounce Pro-Confederacy/KKK Initiative

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Confederacy, Racism, Mississippi, 2012 Election, Republican Party, Haley Barbour, Ku Klux Klan, Politics News

Haley Barbour's refusal to denounce the effort to honor not just a major Confederate figure but a leader of the KKK should really send his star back into orbit for red meat Republicans.

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