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A man accused of burning a cross in the yard of an African-American family last year in the village of Marengo in Morrow County has reached a plea deal. Brandon Rhodes, 20, is accused of burning a wooden cross with the words “KKK will make you pay,” on March 3 on Bennington Township Road...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the church owns a building where KKK robes and T-shirts are sold. A circuit judge ruled last month that New Beginnings Baptist Church is the rightful owner...
For decades, Rosa Morris Williams has prayed to live long enough to see justice for her grandfather, who died after being burned in his shoe shop in a 1964 attack believed to have been carried out by the Ku Klux Klan. Williams said her hopes were lifted when she learned earlier this year that...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For its annual party of white supremacists, skinheads and Klansmen in western Kentucky, the Imperial Klans of America won’t be hosting its traditional Memorial Day weekend Nordic Fest. Instead, members are opting for what they call a “spring gathering” featuring a “cross lighting” and barbeque. The change has been prompted by...
Almost 60 years ago, 36 concrete gravestones were moved from a Gold Rush-era hamlet known as Negro Hill in the 1950s to make way for a reservoir in El Dorado Country, Calif. What did not change, however, are the markers that the gravestones are still identified by: “Unknown. Moved from Nigger Hill Cemetery by...
