
Nov 21 - By Associated Press
About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU.
Nov 5 - By Michael Astor, Associated Press Writer
"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.

Sep 25 - By Associated Press
Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl apologized for a joking remark that linked the rural home of one his players to the Ku Klux Klan.
Sep 16 - By Associated Press
W. Horace Carter, a North Carolina newspaper publisher whose crusades against the Ku Klux Klan earned a Pulitzer Prize, has died. He was 88.

Sep 2 - By Michelle Rindels, Associated Press Writer
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.

Jul 14 - By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
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.
Apr 21 - By Associated Press
Czech authorities have released former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke from detention and ordered him to leave the country.
Mar 3 - By Kevin McGill, Associated Press Writer
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.
Feb 27 - By Eric Olson, AP Sports Writer
The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday upheld the firing of a State Patrol trooper for his ties to the Ku Klux Klan.

Feb 17 - By Kevin McGill, Associated Press Writer
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.

Feb 17 - By John Christoffersen, Associated Press Writer
The Ku Klux Klan was rising again. Segregation was the law and Martin Luther King Jr. was not even born yet.

Feb 13 - By Associated Press
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.

Jan 22 - By Margaret Stafford, Associated Press Writer
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.

Nov 11 - By Sean Murphy, Associated Press Writer
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.
Nov 11 - By Brett Barrouquere, Associated Press Writer
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.
Nov 3 - By Ron Word, Associated Press Writer
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."
Oct 27 - By Ron Word, Associated Press Writer
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.
Sep 9 - By Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press Writer
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.
Aug 7 - By Beth Rucker, Associated Press Writer
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.
Jul 14 - By Deanna Martin, Associated Press Writer
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.

Jul 2 - By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press Writer
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.

Jun 2 - By Mary Foster, Associated Press Writer
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.
Jun 2 - By Mary Foster, Associated Press Writer
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.

May 19 - By Associated Press
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.
Apr 12 - By Associated Press
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.