Posts Tagged ‘White Supremacy’
Memphis, Tenn., Votes to Exhume Body of Confederate General, KKK Leader Buried in City Park
Memphis, Tenn., city leaders unanimously voted on Tuesday night to exhume the body of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader who is buried in the city’s Health Sciences Park, and move him to a private cemetery.
Read MoreWhite Supremacists More Dangerous To America Than Foreign Terrorists, Study Says
At least 48 people have been killed stateside by right-wing extremists in the 14 years since since the September 11 attacks — almost twice as many as were killed by self-identified jihadists in that time, according to a study released Wednesday by the New America Foundation.
Read MoreRacism Is Not A Mental Illness
An act of terrorism unfolded on American soil last night when Dylann Roof allegedly killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Read MoreDiversity Targeted in ‘White Genocide’ Billboard Near Birmingham, AL
Birmingham, AL, billboard targets diversity as an attack on whites.
Read More“Spies of Mississippi” on PBS on February 10, 2014
Dawn Porter’s documentary about an organization created in Mississippi to spy on citizens and preserve white supremacy is available on PBS.
Read MoreWhite Supremacist Serial Killer Executed
Franklin, who targeted interracial couples, Black children, and others, has been put to death by the state of Missouri.
Read MoreKlansman Halloween Costume
A woman who allowed her child to wear a KKK costume for Halloween in a family tradition that supports white supremacy.
Read MoreA Reminder of Black Heroism
Despite some believe them to be lesser people, many Black people frequently and heroically risk themselves for others.
Read MoreYes, They’re White and Muslim
The Boston-bombing suspects show that it’s time the media and the public redefined their view of Islam. By Edward Wyckoff Williams, theRoot.com The American story has too long been told through a racial lens and always vis-à-vis “whiteness.” This is a dangerous premise — fortifying the principles of white supremacy, entirely incongruent with the nation’s democratic…
Read MoreConfederate past: Uproar over changing park names
by Adrian Sainz, Associated Press, theGrio.com MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The statue of Confederate fighter Nathan Bedford Forrest astride a horse towers above the Memphis park bearing his name. It’s a larger-than-life tribute to the warrior still admired by many for fiercely defending the South in the Civil War — and scorned by others for…
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