Around 1,000 people showed up to protest a Ku Klux Klan rally at a public park in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday that only drew around 50 white nationalists. The rally was mostly peaceful, with local and state police maintaining separation between the two groups — which upset some anti-KKK protesters, who chanted “Cops and the…
The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to rally in Charlottesville, Virginia this on Saturday to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park. The city approved the rally in Justice Park on free speech grounds. But Mayor Michael Signer encouraged most people to…
A Mississippi branch of the Klu Klux Klan is distributing fliers through the state praising President Trump and his policies. “Like it or not he’s our President,” the flier begins. The message on the KKK notes lists the American Christian Knights organization, based in Mississippi, with their phone number and website address, according to AL.com….
Google plans to give advertisers greater control over where their ads appear, following a number of cases where brands complained about their products being displaying alongside content from right-wing preachers and white supremacists, including former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke. “We know that this is unacceptable to the advertisers and agencies who put their…
With the rise in American hate groups, the Washington Post reports on one Georgia town’s struggle with a massive Ku Klux Klan banner that appeared on the side of a building on Main Street one morning last month. Dahlonega, a charming former gold mining spot an hour north of Atlanta, rallied against the sign, the…
Update: This article has been updated to include a comment from Twitter. On Monday morning, one of the country’s most prominent white supremacists was kicked off Twitter. David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan head and outspoken admirer of President Trump, was stripped off his account, separated from his tens of thousands of followers. His critics…
A couple in Brookyln Park, Maryland is helping people cover up old racist or gang related tattoos — for free. Southside Tattoo, run by owners Dave and Elizabeth Cutlip, posted on January 16 offering to cover up any such tattoos free of charge, no questions asked. Since then, the couple has received hundreds of inquiries…
A student at a Bakersfield, California high school went out to recess last week wearing a KKK-style hood, said a classmate who disseminated pictures of the girl on the social media platform Snapchat. “I started Snapchatting it because that was terrible. I did not like that one bit,” Aidan Reed, a fellow student at Highland…
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