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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

Salon

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…

MusicRadar

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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Ted Cruz’s Claims On Democratic Party’s Involvement With The Ku Klux Klan Supported By Historical Facts

Senator Cruz's statements on Democratic Party's ties to the Ku Klux Klan align with historical evidence.

Zenger

Top Broadway star likens Ron DeSantis to Klan grand wizard

Applause and approval as Hamilton actor Denée Benton makes comparison at Tony awards in New York on Sunday night

The Guardian - US

The U.S. Constitution Clarifies The Consequences Of Discrimination In The Fourteenth Amendment

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed that the Constitution didn't require government act as race based while

Zenger

‘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)

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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

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

A man burned a cross in a hate crime. He's now sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison

Axel Cox said he chose to burn the cross in front of his Black neighbors because of their race, saying he "intended to scare them into moving out of the neighborhood."

WEKU

‘I’m on the right side of history’: Spike Lee on speaking truth to power – and why Beyoncé was robbed

As the BlacKkKlansman film-maker picks up the British Film Institute’s top honour, he talks about being accused of provoking race riots, why his Malcolm X biopic will endure – and the problem with awards

The Guardian - 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

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.

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Bill Torpy: History Center’s film on Stone Mountain a view to the present

The Atlanta History Center’s new documentary about Stone Mountain has lots of grainy black-and-white film of the Ku Klux Klan rallying atop the big rock.

Reason

Ninth Circuit Upholds Expulsions for Off-Campus Abusive Speech That Targets Particular Students

“Students ... remain free to express offensive and other unpopular viewpoints [at least outside school], but that does not include a license to disseminate severely harassing invective targeted at particular classmates in a manner that is readily and foreseeably transmissible to those students.”

WEKU

A Mississippi man burned a cross in a hate crime, the U.S. Justice Department alleges

The 23-year-old suspect burned the cross in front of his Black neighbors because of their race, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

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

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‘Confederates were traitors’: Ty Seidule on West Point, race and American history

The discovery of a plaque showing a member of the Ku Klux Klan at the US military academy made headlines. One member of the commission which recommended its removal is a historian of the US army and the lost cause myth

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

Salon

Real critical race theory: It matters

Long before the racist backlash, critical race theory was a useful tool — for explaining racist backlash

Texas Observer

‘The Fishermen and the Dragon’ Uncovers Racist Conflict in Galveston Bay History

A new nonfiction book reveals dark details of a clash between white and Vietnamese shrimpers, corporate polluters, and the KKK in Texas.

Mic

This political ad from Jerone Davison is pretty unhinged, even for the MAGA crowd

When the main thrust of your campaign is the need to mow down “Democrats in Klan hoods,” then perhaps it's time to step back and log off.

The Independent UK

After Buffalo massacre, NY governor seeks action on guns

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is touting a package of executive orders and gun control bills in the aftermath of a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket

Chicago Sun-Times

We can’t let hate and lies win

The state will hold the Buffalo shooting suspect accountable for this act of terror. The politicians and propagandists propagating the lies and the hate surely won’t consider themselves responsible.

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