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NEWS ABOUT: Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan stories: 18 news summaries

 Case of Line-Cutting 
 Sparks Racial Firestorm 

Young black woman faces 15 years in dust-up at Wal-Mart

Nov 16, 09 11:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Trial is set to begin in a case of Wal-Mart line-cutting that has turned into a racially charged media circus. Heather Ellis was arrested almost three years ago after an incident that began when she switched checkout lines at a Missouri store—to join her cousin in a faster queue,... More »

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police • Ku Klux Klan • racism • Missouri • Wal-Mart • criminal charges • Heather Ellis • checkout

David Duke Goes to the Birds in Austria

Former Ku Klux Klan leader runs nature photography business

May 15, 09 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - David Duke appears to have traded in burning crosses for a high-powered camera lens, reports the Telegraph, which tracked the former Ku Klux Klan honcho to a village in Austria. The onetime US presidential candidate now sells photos of birds and other wildlife he’s taken as he traipses through... More »

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Czech Republic • Louisiana • Austria • Ku Klux Klan • Adolf Hitler • right wingers • David Duke • wildlife photography

 Duke: RNC's Steele 
 a 'Black Racist' 

Former KKK member rails against GOP body's first black chairman

Feb 2, 09 2:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Former Louisiana lawmaker David Duke is slamming the Republican National Committee for choosing Michael Steele as its chairman, Bayou Buzz reports. Duke called Steele a “radical Black racist” and a “servile dog of Israel,” and suggested that the Republican base would not suffer Steele’s leadership. Duke... More »

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RNC • Ku Klux Klan • racism • racist • chairman • Lousisiana • Michael Steele • David Duke

 Economy Stimulates 
 Hate Groups 

Immigrants, internet, hard times are groups' 'furnace of hate,' says expert

Jan 11, 09 8:08 AM CST
(Newser) - The economic crush will spur more activity by the burgeoning number of hate groups in the US, experts warn. Law enforcement investigators are advocating for increased attention to the problem as the economy creates widespread discontent and more recruits for white supremacists, reports the Washington Post. "The internet, immigration... More »

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Ku Klux Klan • Neo-Nazi • hate groups • Nazis • economic disparity • Aryan Nation

Candidate's
Klan Ties Roil Florida Race

Klansman's teenage
son is disqualified
on a technicality

Dec 12, 08 12:54 PM CST
(Newser) - In a big year for race in politics, a 19-year-old’s election to—and ban from—Palm Beach’s Republican committee has hate groups and their opponents up in arms far beyond Florida, the New York Times reports. Voters chose Derek Black, the son of a noted Klansman who made... More »

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Florida • Ku Klux Klan • white supremacism • Palm Beach • disputed election

(Newser) - A KKK leader and one of his followers must pay $2.5 million in damages for the vicious beating of an American Indian teen in 2006, the Courier-Journal reports. Prosecutors hope the verdict in the civil trial will be economically devastating to the Kentucky-based Imperial Klans of America, the... More »

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Kentucky • hate crime • Ku Klux Klan • KKK • civil trial • American Indian

 Klan Recruit Slain in Initiation 

Woman shot as she tries to leave KKK ritual

Nov 12, 08 2:37 AM CST
(Newser) - A woman was murdered by a Ku Klux Klan leader after she backed out of an initiation ritual, according to investigators. The unidentified Oklahoma woman, who had been recruited on the internet, was about to join a Louisiana KKK group called the Sons of Dixie Brotherhood. After several rites, including... More »

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murder • Louisiana • Ku Klux Klan • KKK • Tulsa • initiation • Bogalusa • St. Tammany Parish

Mich. Letters Taunt Obama; Racist Vandals Strike Sign

Secret Service investigates mail threatening Dem, supporters

Sep 17, 08 3:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Secret Service is investigating anti-Obama letters sent to a local Democratic office and a business in south-central Michigan, the AP reports, even as authorities in Pittsfield Township, about 40 miles west of Detroit, say an Obama billboard was defaced with swastikas and Klan symbols overnight. One letter declares a... More »

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Barack Obama • Ku Klux Klan • Michigan • racism • vandalism • KKK • Obama 2008 • graffiti

Court Tosses Ex-Klansman's
Conviction in '64 Murders

Statute of limitations for kidnapping had expired, appeals panel rules

Sep 10, 08 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal appeals court has thrown out last year's conspiracy and kidnapping conviction of an ex-Klansman involved in the murders of two black teens in Mississippi in 1964. Lawyers for James Ford Seale said they will seek to have the 72-year-old cancer patient, who was serving three life sentences, freed... More »

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kidnapping • murder • appeal • hate crime • James Ford Seale • Ku Klux Klan • Charles Eddie Moore • Henry Hezekiah Dee • conspiracy • KKK • civil rights • statute of limitations

OPINION

Beyond Race? Politics Beyond Sensitive, More Like It

'Perceiving insult' hurts discourse at all levels

Jul 7, 08 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The story of an indicted Indiana student janitor underlines "super-heated capacities for perceiving insult" that color race issues in America—issues playing out in the presidential contest, too, Dorothy Rabinowitz writes in the Wall Street Journal. "Its presence is evident in this election campaign," she writes, "... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • Ku Klux Klan • racism • Indiana University • harrassment

 Secret Service
 Is Racist,
 Suit Alleges 

Damning e-mails surface ahead of trial

May 29, 08 10:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - A culture of racism lurks behind the dark glasses of the Secret Service, claims a lawsuit filed by more than 100 current and former black agents who say they were denied promotions. The Service denies the charges, but the suit has brought troubling emails to light, ABC News reports. One... More »

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Secret Service • race relations • Ku Klux Klan • racism • lawsuit • racial tension

OPINION

How the Left Wing Brought Me Down

Ex-election watchdog nominee details 'poisonous tactics'

May 20, 08 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Controversial civil-rights lawyer Hans von Spakovsky, who last week withdrew from consideration for appointment to the Federal Election Commission, pens a post-mortem of his own candidacy in the Wall Street Journal. Asserting that “character assassination … has become the norm” for conservatives in confirmation battles, von Spakovsky says calling... More »

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ACLU • Ku Klux Klan • partisanship • Nazi • FEC • Hans von Spakovsky

 Robert Byrd Endorses Obama 

West Va. senator and former KKK member, 90, wants end to Iraq war

May 19, 08 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - West Virginia's Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator ever and a former Ku Klux Klansman, today endorsed Barack Obama, calling him “a noble-hearted patriot and humble Christian.” The 90-year-old, who's fourth in line for the presidency, threw his support behind Obama one week after his state voted for Hillary... More »

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Barack Obama • Ku Klux Klan • endorsement • Robert Byrd • West Virginia primary

OPINION

Wright Sermons Weren't 'Black Equivalent of
a Klan Rally'

Parishioner decries focus on Obama pastor

Mar 19, 08 8:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s pastor is a good man, says a fellow churchgoer, and though his “going off on white America” kept T. Shawn Taylor—a black woman—from inviting white friends to worship, it didn’t stop her from marrying a white man. Taylor writes in the Chicago Tribune... More »

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Barack Obama • race • homophobia • Ku Klux Klan • Jeremiah Wright • Trinity United Church of Christ • misogyny

Jesse Jackson Outraged on Umps' Behalf

League probe asked
if umpires are KKK members, wife-beaters

Feb 1, 08 7:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Major League Baseball's umpires are fighting mad, and Jesse Jackson is behind them 100%, after reports surfaced that league officials have been asking umps' neighbors questions about marijuana use, domestic violence, and potential membership in the Ku Klux Klan. "They have essentially defamed their people in their own neighborhoods,... More »

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MLB • Jesse Jackson • Ku Klux Klan • background check • Tim Donaghy • baseball • umpires

Dems Slam Feds for Inaction on Noose Crimes

Racial cases up since 2000, but some spurn incidents as 'pranks'

Oct 20, 07 5:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dems blasted the feds this week for not pursuing a nationwide spate of noose crimes. More than a half dozen nooses left in Maryland, Memphis, New York, and Pittsburgh have prompted no arrests, the Washington Post reports. But acting Attorney General Peter Keisler claims that the FBI and Department of... More »

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Department of Justice • FBI • hate crime • Ku Klux Klan • Jena 6 • noose

Ex-Klansman Gets 3 Life Terms for
1964 Murders

72-year-old cancer patient says he'll appeal

Aug 24, 07 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 72-year-old ex-Klansman drew three life sentences today for his involvement in the 1964 murders of two black teens in Mississippi, the Clarion-Ledger reports. "Justice is ageless," the judge told James Ford Seale, who was found guilty in June of kidnapping and conspiracy in the abduction, beating, and... More »

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kidnapping • murder • hate crime • James Ford Seale • Ku Klux Klan • Charles Eddie Moore • Henry Hezekiah Dee • conspiracy • KKK • civil rights

Ex-Klansman Guilty in '64 Teen Murders

Convicted of kidnapping, 71-year-old faces life in prison

Jun 15, 07 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A former Klansman was convicted yesterday of conspiracy and kidnapping in the 1964 murder of two black teenagers. The prosecution's star witness was a Klan member who said he and James Ford Seale stuffed the 19-year-olds into their trunk and drowned them in the Mississippi River. The jury deliberated for... More »

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kidnapping • James Ford Seale • Ku Klux Klan • Charles Eddie Moore • Henry Hezekiah Dee • conspiracy • KKK • civil rights

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