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“Keep Your Apologies”: Bath & Body Works’ Candles Spark Massive Debate Over Controversial Designs

“We apologize to anyone we’ve offended," Bath & Body Works said amid its KKK candles scandal. The post “Keep Your Apologies”: Bath & Body Works’ Candles Spark Massive Debate Over Controversial Designs first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Did Reagan pave the way for Trump? ‘You can trace the linkages,’ says biographer

The 80s president known for sunny optimism also has a darker legacy on issues like race and Aids. ‘I don’t think you can just say, wow, Trump arrived from Mars,’ says Max Boot

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FBI informant’s book predicts far-right violence: ‘we should be afraid’

Joe Moore, who for years investigated the Ku Klux Klan, issues a chilling warning for the 2024 election and beyond

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Are Laws Restricting Mask-Wearing in Public Constitutional?

[1.] Some places have recently enacted restrictions on wearing masks in public. They generally stem from three related rationales: People's wearing masks makes it harder for the police to identify who committed some crime: trespass, vandalism, assault, and more. That's especially true when there are many people wearing the same…

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Trump campaign is dragged for ‘racist’ post about life under Democrats

‘There have been Klan rallies which employed more subtlety than this,’ another wrote

The Independent UK

Meet the neo-Nazi advising Irish racists

Is Frank Silva really a "prominent" white supremacist — or a self-published Amazon author and American hustler?

Salon

The Gumpification of America

Robert Zemeckis' "Forrest Gump" is aging poorly. What's worse is how we're creating more bliss through ignorance

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NY governor's subway mask ban proposal sparks debate over right to anonymous protest

A new proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul to ban masks on the New York subway is drawing pushback from disability advocates and civil liberties, who say the measure could violate the right to protest anonymously

The Independent UK

Republican Party Takes Action Against Pro-White Candidate For Governor

Controversy surrounds a pro-white candidate with ties to the Ku Klux Klan running for governor in Missouri, raising questions about the Republican Party's ...

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Missouri Republicans disown Ku Klux Klan-linked candidate for governor

Darrell Leon McClanahan, who reportedly acknowledged he was ‘honorary’ member of Ku Klux Klan, filed for race as a Republican

The Guardian - US

Prosecutors are charging Trump using laws made to fight the KKK. Here’s why

After the civil war, Klansmen were prosecuted – and Confederate traitors forced from office – by the same laws Trump has now run afoul of

The Guardian - US

100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university – part of the terror group's crusade against American Catholics

It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at the University of Dayton, with fewer than 40 students still on campus.

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Kanye West wears Ku Klux Klan-style hood at album listening event

Rapper reportedly denies antisemitism on new album Vultures, a collaboration with vocalist Ty Dolla Sign

The Guardian - UK

7 best Netflix movies based on true stories

Our picks for the best Netflix movies based on true stories including Social Network and The Wolf of Wall Street

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Unmasking the Klansman

A new book reveals the untold story of a Ku Klux Klan member’s literary double life under the names of both Asa and Forrest Carter.

Reason

Journal of Free Speech Law: "'Dangerous to the Liberties of a Free People': Secret Societies and the Right to Assemble," by Nathan Ristuccia

This just-published article is here; the Abstract: Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries often feared that secret assembly threatened republican government. Oath-bound secret societies were allegedly elitist cabals that would establish an imperium in imperio oppressive to ordinary citizens. Yet despite this hostility, many early Americans also insisted that…

Chicago Sun-Times

What Chicago police did when the Ku Klux Klan infiltrated its ranks

When Chicago cops joined the KKK 55 years ago, the department moved quickly to fire them.

The Guardian - US

Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right

Historian Fergus Bordewich salutes the civil war general turned 18th president for his attempt to reconstruct the south

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House speaker contender Steve Scalise reportedly called himself ‘David Duke without the baggage’

Republican, who some say could replace Kevin McCarthy, has had reported associations with ex-Ku Klux Klan grand wizard

The Guardian - UK

‘What would it be like to be evil?’ Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK

Delayed after the murder of George Floyd, this show has now arrived in Britain accompanied by warnings. Our critic revels in the American’s cartoonish renderings of everyday objects – and the hate groups lurking in our midst

The Guardian - US

‘Cognitively impaired’? Trump’s confused attacks on Biden start to backfire

Trump has portrayed the president as too old and too mentally fogged to occupy the Oval Office, but his tactics rebounded on Friday

WEKU

Lessons from Birmingham: 60 years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

This city is remembering a dark chapters in U.S. civil rights history. On September 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church, killing four Black girls and rocking the conscience of the nation.

Salon

Why this is happening in Atlanta

A Black D.A. and a race-baiting white president are colliding in Atlanta — and it feels like the city's destiny

MusicRadar

John Lennon: "Somebody let off a firecracker onstage and every one of us looked at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.” – Why The Beatles retired from the stage

How death threats, disillusionment and the very real threat of onstage electrocution all fuelled The Fab Four’s decision to stop playing live…

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A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump

In the indictment against former President Donald Trump and his role in the Jan. 6 violent attack against the U.S. Capitol, special prosecutor Jack Smith charged the former president with violating four different federal laws – and Trump pleaded not guilty to each one of them on Aug. 3, 2023.

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