Black Church Gains Ownership of Ku Klux Klan Shop
Last week — after a 15 year battle— Reverend Kennedy of Laurens, South Carolina made headlines when a judge declared his New Beginnings Baptist Church to be the rightful owner of "The Redneck Shop", a...
View Article160,000 Petition to Change Name of Florida High School Named for KKK Leader
Jacksonville, Florida is a city rooted in history. Inhabited by Native Americans in the 15th century and conquered by the French and the Spanish in the 16th century, Jacksonville became a U.S....
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Trump disavows support of former KKK leader
Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a rally at Madison City Schools Stadium in Madison, Alabama, Sunday. Photo by Marvin Gentry/ReutersDonald Trump is stepping back from comments he made over the...
View ArticleGOP leaders: No place for bigotry in the Republican Party
Video by PBS NewsHourWASHINGTON — The two top Republican leaders in Congress denounced Donald Trump on Tuesday for his slow-moving disavowal of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.RELATED LINKSTrump...
View ArticleRyan slams ‘ugliness’ in politics amid Trump-driven chaos
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday decried ugliness and divisiveness in American politics, delivering a veiled but passionate rebuke to GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and the...
View ArticleThe Legal Battle That Brought Down The KKK
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.In 1981, a largely black jury in Alabama failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a black man accused of murdering a white Birmingham Police...
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Trump’s tweet appeared on a white supremacist site
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the media on the golf course at his Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland. Photo by Carlo Allegri/ReutersWASHINGTON — Donald...
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Experts say white supremacists see Trump as ‘last stand’
Mercedes Vega protests outside a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Fresno, California, on May 27. Photo by Noah Berger/ReutersWASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate...
View ArticleBlack Artist Tries to Bridge Racial Divides With KKK Members
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Talented boogie-woogie rock 'n roll piano player Daryl Davis has played with legendary musicians like Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and...
View ArticleRabbi And The KKK, Snap #809 - The Klan
A New York Rabbi has his faith tested when he takes a job in Nebraska.Producer: Anna Sussman, Rita Daniels, Renzo Gorrio
View ArticlePen Pals, Snap #809 - The Klan
Storyteller and artist Christy Chan is an American-born Chinese woman. She was confident in her identity until her family moved to a new town and she began getting letters from a mysterious, (possibly...
View ArticleBlack Man Down, Snap #809 - The Klan
No one ever told Glynn why grandpa’s chair was empty at the dinner table.Producer: Pat Mesiti Miller
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President Trump backtracks to blame both sides in Charlottesville violence
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Yesterday we reported on President Trump’s updated statement criticizing violent neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups for the violence over the...
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White supremacists once wore hoods. Now, an internet mob won’t let them stay...
Peter Cytanovic, right, along with neo-Nazis, “alt-right” and white supremacists encircle and chant at counter-protesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the...
View ArticleFormer White Nationalist Derek Black
Derek Black, a graduate student in history who focuses on the early Middle ages, was following in his father's footsteps as a leader of the white nationalist movement until he began to question its...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: A Former White Nationalist, Rifts in New York State...
In case you missed them, hear three of our favorite segments from the week:A Former White Nationalist (First) | Rifts in New York State Senate (Starts 28:31) | Sex and Pop Music (Starts 47:10) If you...
View Article'Bigotry is Flexible:' A History of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Linda Gordon, Bancroft Prize-winning historian at New York University and the author of The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (Liveright,...
View ArticleA Government Takeover by the Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan was originally focused on maintaining the old racial order in the postwar South, chiefly through the violent suppression of African-Americans. But, in the nineteen-twenties, the Klan...
View ArticleThe Media and the Klan
In the 1920s, the Second Klan exploded across the nation, thanks in part to the amount of media coverage it was receiving. Heated debates ensued about how the media should cover the Klan: whether they...
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