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Ku Klux Klan

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GOP nominee's anti-gay views stir controversy

David A. Love
OPINION - Virginia Republicans have selected a dyed-in-the-wool, black conservative minister and activist as their nominee for lieutenant governor. And he has drawn particular criticism for his homophobic views...
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Survivor of 1963 '4 Little Girls' church bombing seeks funds

Jay Reeves, Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The lone survivor of a notorious 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls is seeking millions in compensation and says she won't accept a top congressional award to honor the victims...
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In this July 26, 1937 file photo, police escort two of the five recently freed "Scottsboro Boys," Olen Montgomery, wearing glasses, third left, and Eugene Williams, wearing suspenders, forth left through the crowd greeting them upon their arrival at Penn Station in New York. In a final chapter to one of the most important civil rights episodes in American history, Alabama lawmakers voted Thursday, April 4, 2013, to give posthumous pardons to the "Scottsboro Boys": nine black teens who were wrongly convicted of raping two white women in 1931. (AP Photo, File)

What infamous civil rights cases need closure?

David A. Love
OPINION - America’s civil rights history evokes a sense of pride and accomplishment, given the hard-fought battles waged in the courtroom and in the streets, and those who were maimed and martyred in the process...
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: Incumbent Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele (C) leaves the room after the 5th round of votes for RNC chairmanship during the RNC Winter Meeting January 14, 2011 in National Harbor, Maryland. The members of the committee are voting on their choices for chairman in the afternoon. Steels has dropped out of his re-election bid after the 5th round of votes. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Michael Steele calls out Limbaugh for racist remarks

Adrian Carrasquillo, NBC Latino
NBC LATINO - Rush Limbaugh’s reaction to the nomination of Thomas Perez to be the next Secretary of Labor by President Obama left even fellow Republicans scratching their heads...
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1964: An FBI poster seeking information as to the whereabouts of Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney and Michael Henry Schwerner, Civil Rights campaigners who went missing in Mississippi. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Olen Burrage, suspect in 1964 Klan slayings, dies

Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (AP) - Olen Burrage, who was acquitted in the case of three civil rights workers killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Mississippi in the 1960s, has died. He was 82...
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In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo provided by Shane Schuster, three people in the Red River High School student section wear Ku Klux Klan-style white robes and hoods during a semifinal game in the North Dakota Boys Hockey Tournament at Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D. Mark Rerick, the Grand Forks Public Schools' athletics director, said he asked administrators from the Grand Forks high school to investigate the incident after the photo appeared on the social network site Twitter. (AP Photo/Shane Schuster)

ND school investigating fans in KKK-style hoods

Dirk Lammers, Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A North Dakota high school principal says appropriate action is being taken after three students briefly donned Ku Klux Klan-style white robes and hoods Friday night during a state hockey semifinal game...
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PULASKI, TN - JULY 11, 2009: A member of the Fraternal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan participates in the 11th Annual Nathan Bedford Forrest Birthday march (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Las Vegas students dressed in KKK robes for class presentation

Brittany Tom
theGRIO REPORT - A teacher and two students at a Las Vegas performing arts school are under fire from parents after photos emerged of a student wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe for a U.S. history project earlier this month...
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Ga. officials investigating KKK fliers

Associated Press
COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) - Sheriff's officials in the Atlanta area are investigating whether any laws were broken when fliers inviting residents to join the Ku Klux Klan were placed outside homes...
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Ex-Ala. Attorney General's 'kiss my a**' letter to the KKK goes viral

Marquise Francis
theGRIO REPORT - Former Attorney General of Alabama Bill Baxley wrote a short and direct letter to the Ku Klux Klan back in 1970 after receiving a threatening letter of protest...
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Mia Love receives 'disturbing' mail

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Police are investigating disturbing photos that were sent to Utah Republican congressional candidate Mia Love Tuesday...
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