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Claiming they never wanted all the attention, some groups maintain they’ve been thrust on the stage that is the Confederate flag ban debate in Lexington in order to protect their rights, while others seem all too ready to take advantage of the spotlight. The Lexington Police Department confirmed it obtained several calling cards and...
EDEN, N.C. — Members of the Ku Klux Klan apparently held a gathering at the site of a former Sonic Drive-In Tuesday evening in Eden. The Greensboro News & Record reported that five Klan members dressed in white robes waved signs at the vacant lot at 104 E. Harris Place. The paper reported that police...
Santa Cruz’s Pacific Avenue hosts any number of eclectic and left-leaning organizations throughout the year, from the unsanctioned Last Night Santa Cruz DIY Parade to next month’s Pride Parade and Festival. But in 1927, a group of a much different sort, heralding a much different message, took to the city’s main drag. Members of...
Neil Carr, 25 – who is heterosexual but celibate – was placed under investigation after a colleague overheard two young boys say to each other: ”Mr Carr is gay” during a conversation in a corridor. When asked about their comment both boys claimed they had been molested by the teacher during classes and news...
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate and extremist groups in the United States, has found “stunning” growth in what they call the “anti-government patriot movement,” conspiracy groups whose primary focus is opposing the federal government. And much of that growth has been here. Texas now has 76 such active groups, the SPLC reports, second...
The African-American lawmaker in Idaho who received a flier from the KKK says she’s using the incident as an opportunity to talk about bigotry in the state. State representative Cherie Buckner-Webb and four other Idaho lawmakers have reported getting the mailings at home. Cherie Buckner-Webb grew up in Boise and remembers when someone set...
Indeed, over his breakfast of biscuits and gravy at a diner here, Railton Loy — international imperial wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan — takes a short break from the conversation, eases out the morning’s cocktail of prescription meds and pops a few pills. Diabetes, it seems, is one of...
A museum owner refused to cut up a child‘s Ku Klux Klan uniform on national television. Andy Jones, who runs Littledean Jail in the Forest of Dean, appeared on Channel 4′s Four Rooms show this week. The format sees people pitching artifacts to four leading dealers and collectors one-by-one, the catch being if they...
From the outskirts of Harrison, Ark., take Highway 7 North about seven miles. Take a right by the Conoco, down Zinc Road, past the green cow pastures and the farmhouses and four low-slung churches. After seven miles, the road appears to head straight into a wall of trees, before veering left and plunging down...
Tom Metzger — a wily, iconic racist ideologue who has for years espoused “lone-wolf” terrorism — could soon find himself facing criminal charges filed by the federal government he’s excoriated for decades. Federalinvestigators, fresh off a related mail-bombing conviction in Arizona, may be pressing for what could develop into a major Justice Department criminal...
