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January 8th, 2015
Written by Jeff Amy in All About Family, Race Relations with 1 Comment
Amelie Hahn, braves cold weather as she holds a poster memorializing the 2011 rundown death of James Craig Anderson in front of the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. Two of the men charged in the series of 2011 racial beatings that resulted in Anderson's death attended change-of-plea hearing.
Ten white Mississippi Teens, now young men and women, have been found guilty of random hate crimes against blacks, which included the murder of an unsuspecting victim, James Craig Anderson. A group of young white men and women who killed Anderson, a black man in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2011 had periodically roamed the city that spring, attacking African Americans at random, and police never...
January 8th, 2015
Written by The Associated Press in Race Relations, "Sticky Wicket" Questions with 0 Comments
The KKK, a secretive society formed in the post-Civil War South, is known as a white supremacist group who terrorized blacks.
What value did a bidder find in the Ku Klux Klan robe that was purchased at an auction? Curiosity? History? Tucked between children's Victorian-era button-down shoes and a World War I collar bag, one item stood out on an auctioneer's website touting an end-of-the-year sale: a Ku Klux Klan robe dating to the 1920s. The white robe, discovered in an attic by a New Hampshire woman in her 80s, bore...
January 7th, 2015
Written by Jim Salter in Discrimination Cases, Race Relations with 0 Comments
The Ku Klux Klan have been temporarily prevented from passing out leaflets in a small Missouri town.
The Ku Klux Klan cannot continue leafleting streets according to a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. However, the American Civil Liberties Union is appealing the ruling that prohibits the Ku Klux Klan from leafleting in the streets of a small southeast Missouri town. In a 2-1 ruling last week, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the city of Desloge, whose leaders argued the...
January 7th, 2015
Written by Jim Salter in Discrimination Cases, Race Relations with 0 Comments
The Ku Klux Klan have been temporarily prevented from passing out leaflets in a small Missouri town.
The Ku Klux Klan cannot continue leafleting streets according to a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. However, the American Civil Liberties Union is appealing the ruling that prohibits the Ku Klux Klan from leafleting in the streets of a small southeast Missouri town. In a 2-1 ruling last week, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the city of Desloge, whose leaders argued the...
January 6th, 2015
Written by Erica Werner in Common Ties That Bind, Race Relations with 0 Comments
Republican lawmakers are showing support for House Majority Whip Steve Scalise despite his past affiliation with a white supremacist group. Photo Credit: dailymail.co.uk
Are there elements of white supremacy, in principal or practice, embedded in the Republican Party? The question is being asked as Republican lawmakers closed ranks Sunday behind the No. 3 House Republican leader as the party aimed to move past the controversy over his speech 12 years ago to a white supremacist group. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana has said the speech was a mistake...

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