Former GOP Rep. Klansman David Duke May Run for President in 2012

Controversial nativist David Duke, former Republican representative of Louisiana and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, has announced he will explore seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for President of...

Could Race backfire on the Right?

" Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a possible Republican presidential candidate, recently caused a major stir. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, he referred to race relations while growing up in Mississippi this way: "I just don't remember it as being that bad." Of...

Glenn Miller Runs Racist Radio Ads on KMBZ in U.S. Senate Bid

Glenn Miller is using racist radio ads to try and get a seat in the United States Senate. The 69-year-old—who founded the White Patriot Party in 1980—paid to run racist and anti-Semetic spots on Newsradio 980...

Religious Extremism and U.S. Politics: Often an Ominous Pairing

Religious extremism, as practiced by those professing to emulate the credos of any one of the three faiths that claim kinship to the Prophet Abraham, those being Christianity, Judaism and Islam, has always been...

Czechs throw out David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan leader

The Czech authorities have ordered David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader from the United States, to leave their country by midnight tonight. Mr. Duke was invited to the Czech Republic by a far-right group and had...

Alleged KKK leader indicted in death of Cynthia Lynch

A grand jury indicted 44 year old Raymond Foster, alleged Ku Klux Klan leader, with a charge of second degree murder for the shooting death of Cynthia Lynch of Tulsa, Oklahoma.Lynch was recruited to join their...

Obama Election Brings Racists Out of the Closet

This Associated Press story recounts some of the hundreds of racist/hate crimes that have occurred in the US since the election."Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.Incidents...

Two Sides of a Coin (Update)

It seems that some with views like or similar to White supremacist David Duke, are in the odd position of allegedly not being too adverse to a win by the Democratic presumptive presidential...

" Living in America ....

.... Eye to eye Station to station ...."   So go the first few lines in the chorus of that song by the late Soul Brother #1, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, in his hit song of the same...

Exterminance, Google, and the Fight Against Hate

by Linda Solomon for The Vancouver ObserverEarly this month, a man known on the internet as “Exterminance” received a six month jail sentence. He was convicted by the B.C. Supreme Court in Prince George for the crime of spreading hate.Why this could happen in Canada...

Southern Poverty Law Center: Hate Groups Map

" Active U.S. Hate Groups in 2005 Black Separatist Christian Identity Ku Klux Klan Neo-Confederate Neo-Nazi Other Racist Skinhead Read a list of hate incidents"

N.C. Hearing Opens on 1979 Klan Killings (AP)

AP - The widow of a communist labor organizer who died when Ku Klux Klan members opened fire at a workers' rally more than 25 years ago charged Friday that city and federal law enforcement knew the Klan planned violence but allowed the "government-sanctioned killings" to go...

'Mississippi Burning' trial to recall civil rights battles

Jury selection begins Monday in a 1964 civil rights case that still haunts this rural town of 7,300 residents.

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