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The Rowan Museum has recently acquired a Union soldier’s letter from the Salisbury Confederate Prison, according to Kaye Brown Hirst, executive director of the museum. To celebrate the upcoming Salisbury Prison Symposium, the museum will display the letter, beginning Wednesday and keep it as an exhibit through April 16. It will then be taken...
Bloomington – The Ku Klux Klan is planning to march through the streets of Bloomington, but the time and date for the group’s demonstration is a mystery. The organization‘s leader says the KKK plans a march with up to 300 Klansmen in full robe and hood. Some city leaders are hoping to unmask them....
Ending a 16-year court battle, religious groups, many of them virulently anti-gay and part of a “church planting” movement to evangelize students, were finally stopped from using New York City public schools for regular worship services on February 12. But state and city officials — including pro-gay politicians such as Public Advocate Bill de...
History is not always neat and clean. Often it’s messy and mean. Though America’s past is filled with feel-good stories of pioneers braving the odds and rugged individuals fighting for their freedom, there are dark moments. Like the kind displayed in a new exhibit, “Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs” at the Tampa Bay History Center....
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...
Three teens have been charged with a hate crime after attacking an African-American teen and putting a noose around his neck for his alleged relationship with a white girl. The accusers, who are all white, range from age 16 to 18. According to the Chicago Tribune, on Dec. 23, the victim, 17, went to...
WASHINGTON — Thomas Jefferson wrote “all men are created equal” to declare U.S. independence from Britain, yet he was also a lifelong slave owner who freed only nine of his more than 600 slaves during his lifetime. That contradiction between ideals and reality is at the center of a new exhibit opening Friday as...
Are threatening pictures tantamount to making a threat? West Palm Beach officials believe so. They want the person who put pictures of people hanging from poles and trees with ropes around their necks on the truck of a city employee prosecuted for committing a hate crime. The pictures, which also depicted beatings, were placed...
Tom and Mike were old friends and landlords who met on street corner. Tom asks Mike, “how’s business.” Mike stares at him blankly. “Well, that warehouse I owned downtown burned to the ground last week,” he says. Tom, being the concerned friend that he is, empathizes with him. “That’s terrible!” he says. “It turned...
