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Teacher who allowed student to wear KKK costume banned from school

‘This does not represent the character of our students and staff at Southern Middle School or our district as a whole’

The Independent UK

Glasgow KKK killer campaigns for release of Jodi Jones' murderer Luke Mitchell as he brands police corrupt

Convicted killer and KKK extremist, James Mitchell, is campaigning for the release of Jodi Jones' murderer as he brands the cops corrupt and declares Luke Mitchell's innocence.

Glasgow Live

‘Jerry was freaked out’ – the writer of Jerry Springer: The Opera on their showdown

In the brilliantly crude opera, the talkshow host ends up in hell after being shot by a nappy-wearing fetishist aiming at the KKK. But, recalls the smash hit’s writer, that’s not what upset the TV legend when he finally saw the show

The Guardian - UK

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New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement

The tale of a Ku Klux Klan murder plot, and the FBI's effort to stop it using an undercover informant, is the subject of a new documentary from ABC and The Associated Press

The Independent UK

ABC News, George Stephanopoulos, AP Partner on KKK Documentary

‘Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK’ on Hulu April 27

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‘A Fever in the Heartland’ tells how KKK pushed their way into politics with a plan to win the White House

"A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them" by Timothy Egan; Viking (428 pages, $30)

Tribune News Service

A Fever in the Heartland review: chilling tale of the Klan and a dangerous leader

Timothy Egan has written a meticulous and highly relevant account of the rise of the KKK a hundred years ago

The Guardian - US

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A Fever in the Heartland: how the KKK gripped the American midwest in the 20s

Timothy Egan’s new book recounts the mainstreaming of the racist group and its unraveling after one woman’s testimony

The Guardian - US

Review: 'A Fever in the Heartland,' by Timothy Egan

NONFICTION: How a depraved lout turned the KKK into a force in Jazz Age Indiana.

Tribune News Service

How the politics of race will play a key role in Nikki Haley's 2024 campaign

Haley is a woman of color who led South Carolina in taking down the Confederate flag from its state capitol. That makes campaigning complex in the party of Trump.

WEKU

Family: Suspect in power grid plot embraced racist ideology

Relatives of a Maryland woman who allegedly conspired with a Florida-based neo-Nazi leader to plan a crippling attack on Baltimore's power grid say she has a long history of white supremacist beliefs

The Independent UK

Deep in storage in Kansas City’s Black Archives: Ku Klux Klan robes. Here’s why

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In the back storage area of the Black Archives of Mid-America, among rows of shelves, sits a box containing a chilling and eerie sight to behold: a set of Ku Klux Klan robes, complete with a pointy hood.

Tribune News Service

Tory councillor who compared David Lammy to KKK standing in local elections

Councillor David Burgess-Joyce will now be running in Heswall after he was selected by local party members there

Liverpool Echo

The KKK's Push for Compulsory Schooling and a Federal Education Department

In the early 20th century, the Klan's virulent nativism and anti-Catholicism fueled its interest in education policy.

Reason

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Alito "jokes" of Black kids in KKK hoods

Alito later joked about Ashley Madison, a dating site that helps people have affairs

The Independent UK

Justice Samuel Alito under fire for KKK joke during Supreme Court oral arguments: ‘You can’t make this up’

Observers called his comments ‘really upsetting’

Texas Observer

Antifascist Spies on East Texas Nazi Conference with Drone

A veteran's surveillance of the Aryan Freedom Network prompted a lawsuit filed by a notorious lawyer for the far right, Jason Lee Van Dyke.

The Independent UK

Florida official appointed by DeSantis resigns after KKK costume photo emerges

Local faith leaders demand now-former county commissioner come forward to address allegations

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DeSantis appointee quits over KKK photo

Photo shows Jeffrey Moore "wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood"

The Independent UK

Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of '63 KKK blast

Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside an Alabama church 59 years ago

The Independent UK

Panel: West Point should rename Lee Barracks, nix KKK art

A commission created by Congress is recommending changes at West Point when it comes to commemorating Robert E

The Guardian - US

West Point’s Ku Klux Klan plaque should be removed, commission says

Panel is tasked with recommending which US military assets should be renamed, to remove associations with Confederates

WEKU

A plaque with the words 'Ku Klux Klan' still hangs on a building at West Point

The marker, depicting a hooded figure, was highlighted in a recent report by a special commission looking into U.S. military assets with names tied to the Confederacy.

The Independent UK

Congressional panel says it cannot call for removal of KKK plaque at prestigious West Point military academy

Panel conducting review of Confederate-US military links called on Defense Department to go further

The Independent UK

Missed warning signs, failings, and lessons learned: What happened during the Parkland massacre

As the sentencing trial continues for Nikolas Cruz, the man who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, Rachel Sharp investigates what led up to the massacre and what’s happened since

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