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Can a KKK robe ever be used to teach the history of racism in America, or is the garment itself simply too racist?

It appears the University of Alabama trustees have decided to completely rename Graves Hall after protests erupted surrounding the person who inspired it, the former Ku Klux Klan grand cyclops Bill Graves.

For nearly 10 years U.S. Army veteran Joseph Moore lived a secret double life as a hit man for the Ku Klux Klan, recording conversations with fellow klansmen and sharing what he learned with federal agents trying to crack down on white supremacists in Florida law enforcement.

One woman residing in Florence, Alabama, had her efforts to rid the city's courthouse of a Confederate-inspired marble statue called Eternal Vigil refused with little to no fanfare.

JeDonna Matthews Dinges, a Black woman, says that a neighbor at a house adjacent to hers displayed a Ku Klux Klan flag, but she's not taking the threat lightly and has challenged the issue head on.

When the man was confronted at the store, he refused to take the hood off until he paid for his groceries, according to reports.

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — The letters “KKK” that were welded on an Arkansas building have been replaced with U.S. Marshals stars after one of the owners called it “offensive” insignia that’s commonly associated with “a shameful organization.” The concealment comes after the Southwest Times Record reached out to Fort Smith Mayor George McGill earlier […]

A white man has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to building a wooden cross and setting it ablaze near the homes of black families in a small Mississippi town. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that Graham Williamson admitted that he and another man burned the cross to frighten and intimidate African American residents in Seminary, […]

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The leaflets distributed by students at a junior high school told pre-teens to “Join the KKK” and that “It’s not OK to be gay.” In the capital of the state known for the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard, school officials have worked to respond to the spring incident. […]

An Alabama newspaper editor who called for a KKK revival and lynchings faces no real consequences.

A white woman in Deland, Fla. was arrested and naturally unhappy about being placed under arrest; but what really upset her was the fact that she was being arrested by a Black sheriff’s deputy. The woman was caught on tape going on a racist and violent rant against him. BuzzFeed News reports that Volusia County Sheriff’s […]

In the US, white supremacists have infiltrated police and military to get weapons training, The Sydney-Morning Herald reports, but according to one Tennessee judge. “The Klan doesn’t exist anymore.” “I grew up in a time where people wore white robes and they shot at black people,” Judge Wayne Shelton said. “And now we see young black men wearing black hoodies shooting […]