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Famed Alabama Civil Rights Attorney Releases KKK Hate Mail

Keith Thomson | Posted 04.18.2013 | Politics
Read More: Racism, 1963 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Bill-Baxley, Alabama-Church-Bombing, Civil Rights, Ku Klux Klan, Kkk, Heroes, Hate Mail, White Supremacists, Nazis, Politics News
Keith Thomson

During his 1976 prosecution of Klansman Robert Chambliss in the Alabama church bombing case, the mail for (then) Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley included racist rants, personal insults and death threats. Unfazed, Baxley placed them in a file he labeled "Kooks and Nuts."

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Former Klansman, Leftover From Days of Institutionalized Racism, Repented Before Death

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 04.10.2013 | Religion
Read More: U.S Representative John Lewis, The Leftovers, Kkk, Tom Perotta, President Barack Obama, Ku Klux Klan, The Rapture, Elwin Wilson, Religion News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

What if love is the ultimate key to salvation and our behavior, not our words, is the test of our worthiness?

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Former KKK Supporter Who Apologized For Racist Past Dies

AP | MARTHA WAGGONER | Posted 04.01.2013 | Black Voices
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-- Elwin Wilson, the former Ku Klux Klan supporter who publicly apologized for years of violent racism, including the beating of a black Freedom Ride...

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City Council Takes Preemptive Action To Disrupt KKK Rally

AP | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Memphis City Council has changed the ordinance on parades and public assemblies, prompted by a scheduled Ku Klux Klan rally. Co...

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1964 Klan Suspect Dies

AP | Posted 03.18.2013 | Black Voices
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PHILADELPHIA, Miss. -- Olen Burrage, who was acquitted in the case of three civil rights workers killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Mississippi in the 1960...

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At CPAC, The Marriage Fight Is Over

BuzzFeed | Chris Geidner | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Read More: Dan Cathy, Family Research Council, Cpac 2013, National Organization for Marriage, Jimmy Lasalvia, Southern Poverty Law Center, Jonah Goldberg, Goproud, Brian Brown, Cpac, Gay-Marriage, Cleta Mitchell, Conservative Political Action Conference, Rob Portman, Ku Klux Klan, Same Sex Marriage, Charles Murray, Liz Mair, Margaret Hoover, Gay Marriage, Jennifer Rubin, Politics News

Opponents of gay rights spoke to a nearly empty room, while supporters had a standing room-only crowd. “We cannot be at war with America on issues o...

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How The South Still Lies About The Civil War

Salon | Posted 03.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: South, Civil War, Ku Klux Klan, Slavery, Kkk, Abraham Lincoln, United Confederate Veterans, Politics News

In the course of our conversation, Yacine Kout mentioned something else—an incident that had happened the previous spring at Eastern Randolph High S...

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Trayvon Martin and the Myth of Black Inferiority

Ronnie Reese | Posted 04.28.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Just Say No, Stand Your Ground, George Zimmerman, Ku Klux Klan, Trayvon Martin, Racism, D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, James Chaney, Naacp, Racial Profiling, Civil Rights, Black Voices News
Ronnie Reese

As Trayvon Martin's death comes back into the national consciousness, we should be mindful of the devastating potential of centuries of brainwashing, especially when combined with gun violence.

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KKK Rally Gets Green Light

AP | Posted 02.26.2013 | Politics
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A Ku Klux Klan chapter has been granted a demonstration permit to protest the renaming of three Memphis parks that honored the Confe...

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Students Wore KKK-Styled Hoods At Hockey Game

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 02.24.2013 | Black Voices
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A North Dakota high school principal says appropriate action is being taken after three students briefly donned Ku Klux Klan-styl...

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Restauranteur Compares Gay Group To KKK, Nazis Before Canceling Event

Posted 02.12.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Arkansas, Richard Hobo, Anti-Gay, Richard Hobo Arkansas, Sisters Gourmet Bistro Gay Group, Anti-Gay Discrimination, Gay Discrimination, Gay Rights, River Valley Equality Center, Ku Klux Klan, Kkk, LGBT Rights, Homophobia, Sisters Gourmet Bistro, Anti-Gay Bullying, Gay Voices News

Members of an Arkansas-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights group are outraged after a local restaurateur canceled their event, ...

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Some Arguments Just Don't Have Two Sides

Roy Speckhardt | Posted 04.09.2013 | Media
Read More: Lgbt, National Debt, Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, Religious Right, Equal Rights, Equal Protection, Discrimination, False Balance, Constitution, Men's Rights, Bigotry, Media Bias, Media News
Roy Speckhardt

Bigoted people of all stripes and sizes will continue to cling to their prejudices and sadly, they will even demand that their intolerant and inaccurate beliefs be the standard by which all of society lives. It's time to call them on their hate and stop equating them with valid and informed stances.

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KKK Planning Largest Rally Ever in Memphis

Keith Thomson | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
Read More: Confederate Statues, War Between the States, Civil War, Tennessee, Jefferson Davis, Ku Klux Klan, Memphis, Kkk, City Parks, Tennessee Parks Renamed, Politics News
Keith Thomson

On Tuesday the Memphis City Council passed a resolution to rename three Confederate-themed public parks in Memphis, including one named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Mystery KKK Fliers Spark Investigation

AP | Posted 01.23.2013 | Crime
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COVINGTON, Ga. -- Sheriff's officials in the Atlanta area are investigating whether any laws were broken when fliers inviting residents to join the Ku...

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King, Clowns And The Third Way

Mark Sandlin | Posted 03.20.2013 | Religion
Read More: Justice, Coup Clutz Clowns, Walter Wink, David LaMotte, Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolence, Peace, Ku Klux Klan, Teachings of Jesus, Nonviolent Resistance, Racism, Video, Religion News
Mark Sandlin

Dr. King was a living example of the kind of person who encourages the moral arc of history to bend toward justice. He is also an example of the only effective way to bend that arc: nonviolently.

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Another Twist In The Aftermath Bizarre Kansas House Race

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 01.03.2013 | Politics
Read More: Election 2012 Blog, Crime, Erich Bishop Kansas, Dakota Bass, Jan Pauls, Offthebus, Erich Bishop, Video, Kansas Politics, Kansas Legislature, Ku Klux Klan, Hutchison Police, Off the Bus, Kanas Equality Coalition, Election 2012, Domestic Violence, Jan Pauls Kansas, Politics News

A former Kansas state House candidate who narrowly lost a state legislative primary to Kansas' leading anti-gay Democrat has been arrested on a series...

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Former Attorney General Of Alabama To KKK: 'Kiss My A**'

Posted 11.28.2012 | Good News
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A succinct letter from a former Attorney General of Alabama to the Ku Klux Klan has gone viral on the Internet this week, impressing readers with its ...

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Counter-Protesters Clown White Supremacist Rally

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 11.12.2012 | Politics
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A gathering of white supremacists attempting to promote an anti-immigrant message at a rally in Charlotte, N.C. was largely drowned out by a clown-the...

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For Real White Supremacists: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 01.07.2013 | Politics
Read More: Neo-Nazis, David Duke, Ku Klux Klan, Election, Politics News
Brian Levin, J.D.

For many, an election, even a losing one, is an opportunity to congratulate the victor and stand in awe of the beauty of our democratic system. But for white nationalists, the impact of President Obama's success was not a happy occasion.

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Georgia Asks Judge To Toss KKK Suit Over Highway Cleanup Program

AP | By KATE BRUMBACK | Posted 10.22.2012 | Black Voices
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ATLANTA (AP) -- The state of Georgia is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Ku Klux Klan challenging the group's application being denied...

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Christ In The Cotton Patch: Clarence Jordan And Koinonia Farm

Casey N. Cep | Posted 12.19.2012 | Religion
Read More: Christianity, Koinonia Farm, Clarence Jordan, Ku Klux Klan, Teachings of Jesus, Cotton Patch Gospel, Cotton Patch Christ, Peace, Christian Social Justice, Slideexpand, Religion News
Casey N. Cep

This is a Jesus who, like Jordan, would not tolerate segregation. A Christ who, like Clarence, would not abide economic injustice.

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Republican Admits KKK Membership

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 10.17.2012 | Politics
Read More: Election 2012 Blog, James Mitchell Cole, Eddie Moore, Race, Offthebus, Eddie Moore South Carolina, Video, Anderson County South Carolina, 2012 Election, Ku Klux Klan, Kkk Membership, Kkk, Off the Bus, South Carolina Politics, Politics News

A Republican county official in South Carolina admitted in a sworn affidavit that he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan when he was younger. Anderson...

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Pragmatic Racism

Robert Koehler | Posted 11.06.2012 | Politics
Read More: Voter Disenfranchisement, Gop Voter Suppression, Ku Klux Klan, Racism, Electoral College, Democrats, African Americans, Republicans, Voter Rights, Voter ID Laws, Voter Suppression, Politics News
Robert Koehler

Winning -- securing power, implementing their agenda -- is the whole point, and that means they have no choice but to put the big squeeze on Democrat-leaning voting blocs. And the most obvious of those blocs are racial and ethnic.

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Sheriff Responds To Uproar After KKK Photos Surface

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 06.23.2012 | Politics
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A Georgia sheriff seeking re-election this year responded to an embarrassing moment from his past after old photos of him dressed in a Ku Klux Klan ro...

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John Celock

Bizarre Twists In Race Against Anti-Gay Democrat

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 06.21.2012 | Politics
Read More: Kansas Equality Coalition, Dakota Bass, Jan Pauls, Kansas Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Erich Bishop, Lgbt, Video, Jeff Colyer, Kansas Politics, Kris Kobach, Ku Klux Klan, Kkk, LGBT Rights, Slidepollajax, Gay Marriage, Tom Witt, Jan Pauls Kansas, Politics News

Kansas' leading anti-gay Democrat -- who now lives in a church -- is facing a competitive reelection campaign against both an openly gay son of a form...

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