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12 Klansmen rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game

About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU.

Story told of contradictory Civil War general

"Devil's Dream" (Pantheon Books, 335 pages, $26), by Madison Smartt Bell: In "Devil's Dream," Madison Smartt Bell has chosen as his subject a Confederate general and slave trader who would go on to become one of the leaders of the early Ku Klux Klan.

Tenn. coach apologizes for KKK joke at fundraiser

Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl apologized for a joking remark that linked the rural home of one his players to the Ku Klux Klan.

Pulitzer Prize-winning NC newspaper publisher dies

W. Horace Carter, a North Carolina newspaper publisher whose crusades against the Ku Klux Klan earned a Pulitzer Prize, has died. He was 88.

Breakaway Episcopalians look to US high court

Marcia Kear's three daughters were married at St. James Anglican Church. Her mother's funeral was there. She said she found the Holy Spirit there.

Senator blocked by bias claims now raises them

Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican equating Sonia Sotomayor's supposed empathy with racial bias, was blocked from the federal bench himself two decades ago for making insensitive remarks about the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP.

Former KKK leader ordered to leave Czech Republic

Czech authorities have released former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke from detention and ordered him to leave the country.

Alleged La. Klan leader pleads not guilty in death

The alleged leader of a Ku Klux Klan group pleaded not guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the shooting death of an Oklahoma woman who police said was killed during an initiation at a remote campsite in south Louisiana.

Neb. court upholds firing of trooper for Klan link

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday upheld the firing of a State Patrol trooper for his ties to the Ku Klux Klan.

Grand jury indicts alleged KKK group leader in La.

The alleged leader of a Ku Klux Klan group was indicted on a second-degree murder charge Wednesday in the shooting death of an Oklahoma woman who police said was killed during an initiation in south Louisiana.

Groundbreaking civil rights book republished

The Ku Klux Klan was rising again. Segregation was the law and Martin Luther King Jr. was not even born yet.

Leader of NC chapter of Ku Klux Klan dies

The man who led a Ku Klux Klan chapter in North Carolina that was involved in a deadly 1979 clash with members of the Communist Workers Party has died.

Mo. neo-Nazis join `Adopt-A-Highway' trash cleanup

A neo-Nazi group has joined the state's "Adopt-A-Highway" volunteer litter pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight won four years ago by the Ku Klux Klan.

Slaying victim in La. Klan case described as loner

A Tulsa woman shot to death after she tried to leave a Ku Klux Klan initiation in rural Louisiana was a gentle, lonely and troubled person who likely reached out to the group seeking a sense of belonging, her former attorney said Thursday.

Former member: Ky. Klan plotted to kill attorney

The head of a Kentucky-based Ku Klux Klan organization led a failed plot to kill the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups and challenges white supremacists, a former Klan member testified Thursday.

Fla. board keeps Klan leader's name at high school

A Florida school board voted late Monday night to keep the name of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader at a majority black high school, despite opposition from a black board member who said the school's namesake was a "terrorist and racist."

Southern general's name may come off Fla. school

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a millionaire slave trader, a ruthless Confederate general, an early Ku Klux Klan leader — and the namesake of what is now a majority African-American high school.

Prosecutors say reputed Klansman is flight risk

A reputed Ku Klux Klansman recently acquitted in the abductions of two black teenagers slain in 1964 is a flight risk and should remain in prison while the government considers appealing the ruling, federal prosecutors argued Tuesday.

Incumbent Tenn. congressman loses primary

Being linked to "big oil" turned into a big problem for Tennessee Republican freshman Rep. David Davis, who became the first congressman from that state to lose in a primary in more than four decades.

IUPUI says sorry to janitor scolded over KKK book

A janitor whom a university official had accused of racial harassment for reading a historical book about the Ku Klux Klan on his break has gotten an apology — months later — from the school.

US politicians find ways to play on racial fears

A Republican congressional candidate in a majority-white Mississippi district runs ads trying to tie his Democratic rival with Barack Obama's former pastor, seen by some as an anti-white firebrand. Democrats distribute fliers accusing the Republican of wanting a statue to honor the founder of the Ku Klux Klan.

Reputed Klansman appeals conviction in 1964 deaths

A reputed Ku Klux Klan member serving three life sentences for his role in the 1964 abduction and killings of two black Mississippi teenagers should not have been convicted because the statute of limitations had expired, his lawyer argued Monday.

Convicted killer and alleged KKK member to appeal

James Ford Seale, the reputed Ku Klux Klan member serving three life sentences for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black Mississippi teenagers, is disputing his conviction.

Sen. Robert C. Byrd endorses Obama

Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and a one-time opponent of civil rights legislation, endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday.

Ohio Troopers Disciplined for Klan Photo

A highway patrolman who was photographed in a handmade Ku Klux Klan costume while on duty the day before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has been suspended without pay, authorities said.

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KKK demonstration draws hundreds of protesters to Ole Miss
Source: Raw Story

A small group of Ku Klux Klan members want Mississippi students to know that they're fans of the song "From Dixie With Love."

West Bank farmers face hidden menace - Israeli settler Ku Klux Klan violence and arson
Source: The Age

Quote: "Ms Najjar says the settlers, who are often masked, sometimes stone the house. Once a petrol bomb set fire to a shed. She compares the attacks to raids by the Ku Klux Klan in the segregation-era United States."

History Of The Democrats And The KKK.
Source: Live Leak

The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats.

Judge Bobby DeLaughter Guilty of Obstruction will be Jailed; Prosecuted Byron De La Beckwith Sucessfully
Source: USA Today

JACKSON, Miss. — He was an internationally acclaimed prosecutor before becoming a well-respected judge on the Hinds County bench.

Major newspapers disappear Sessions' alleged history of racial insensitivity
Source: Media Matters for America

On July 14, five major newspapers reported on Jeff Sessions' opening statement at the confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor without noting that, in 1986, Sessions' nomination as a U.S.

Hate Crimes Against Jews
Source: civilrights.org

In 2007, there were 969 reported hate crimes committed against Jews, according to the FBI, constituting 12.7 percent of all hate crimes reported and 69 percent of religious bias hate crimes reported.

Part 1: How Much Do You Know About These Secret Societies?

1. The Assasins - A middle twelfth century, hashish-smoking Shi'ite Muslim sect in Syria staked its claim to the Islamic Empire with calculated and ruthless violence.

Loving Jim Crow to Death
Source: http://architecture-of-life.blogspot.com/2008/12/l

Ku Klux Klan tries to deceive small town newspaper editor and he strikes back at "Jim Crow". A real event sparks a commentary on the hard work still left to be done after the election of President Barack Obama.

Arizona bombing case has ties to supremacists
Source: msnbc.com

One of two brothers charged in a 2004 bombing that injured a black city official in a Phoenix suburb had ties to white supremacist groups and once was deported from Canada because of his activities.

Arrests in 2004 Arizona bombing: Are the feds finally taking domestic terrorism seriously again?
Source: Crooks and Liars

excerpt: ""Back in 2004, someone sent a letter bomb to Don Logan, the director of the Office of Diversity and Dialogue in Scottsdale, Ariz. Logan suffered serious burns on his hands and arms, and two other people suffered minor injuries.

Neo-Nazis are in the Army now
Source: Salon.com

Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join its ranks.

Military accepting neo-Nazis, white supremacists, probe finds
Source: Raw Story

The US military has effectively adopted a "don't ask, don't tell" policy concerning white supremacists and neo-Nazis in an effort to bolster recruiting and retention, an article published Monday says

Civil Wars - The Fights That Do Not Want to End
Source: The New York Times

"If you had asked the Confederates in the American Civil War, that's not what they called it," Mr. Boot said. "For them it was a war of Northern aggression. They saw themselves as an independent state being assaulted by another independent state."

Nazi Rapes Minority in Brockton, MA
Source: www.abc6.com

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) - A man with a recently carved swastika on his forehead has pleaded not guilty to killing two people in a hate-fueled spree against non-whites.

The twilight of Sen. Robert Byrd
Source: msnbc.com

Age is finally catching up with West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd in the winter of his 54-year career in Congress.

Dockers deny Ku Klux Klan controversy
Source: news.theage.com

The AFL were furious with the contents of the video, which showed a condom-clad rubber chicken performing sex acts.

Czech police release former KKK leader
Source: abc.net.au

Czech police have released former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and told him to leave the country, Czech news agency CTK reported.

Southern Poverty Law Center: 50% rise in violent hate groups
Source: Raw Story

A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks the activities of violent hate groups in the United States, has found an alarming rise in the number of such groups, from 602 in 2000 to 926 in 2008.

Homeland Security issues document warning law enforcement on potential rise of rightwing extremism in the United States
Source: The Washington Times

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white- …

900 Reasons to Defy Racial Supremacism - You Need Only One
Source: Family Security Matters

But the people I am talking about today don't merely have a difference in politics. They don't merely have a difference on policies or programs. They have a difference on the meaning of what it means to be a human being

Growing hate groups blame Obama, economy
Source: CNN

Don Black says he despises Barack Obama. And he says he believes illegal aliens undermine the economic fabric of our country.

(Pics) Images That Reveal The Ku Klux Klan Is Alive And Kicking In 2009
Source: Independent.co.uk

Anyone who doubts the capacity of the modern KKK for violence need look no further than the recent case of 43-year-old Cynthia Lynch of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had never been out of her home state before she travelled to Louisiana to be initiated into the Klan.

Poll: Alan Keyes an Example the Republican Party is Dead

This video of the African American Republican Keyes confirms that the Republican party is officially dead. If Keyes, Steele and Limbaugh are the best leaders they can come up with, no Republican will be elected in America for 100 years. If you missed the video, click here.

Blacks lead both parts of Colorado Legislature
Source: msnbc.com

Sharecropper's grandson Terrance Carroll was chosen as speaker of Colorado's House of Representatives, making it the first state in which blacks lead both chambers of its Legislature.

Klan ordered to pay $2.5m in damages
Source: news.sbs.com.au

A US white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group was ordered to pay $US2.5 million ($A3.75 million) in damages in a judgment that civil rights lawyers hope will bankrupt the chapter.

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