Ku Klux Klan

After members of a Missouri chapter of the Ku Klux Klan circulated fliers threatening to use “lethal force” against Ferguson protesters, the hacker activist group Anonymous has begun publishing names of KKK members on social media, UPI reports. RELATED: Michael Brown Was Shot 7 Times, Family Forensic Expert Tells Grand Jury The incident comes as […]

I believe Klansman John Abarr (pictured) when he says he’s “evolved” from his White supremacist views, after meeting with members of the NAACP in Casper, Wy., last year. On that meeting, Abarr explained to the Great Falls Tribune, “I thought it was a really good organization. I don’t feel we need to be separate.” Such is the magic of having […]

A branch of the traditionally White supremacist hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, is reportedly re-branding itself to embrace people from all walks of life, including Black, Latinos, Jews and homosexuals, so that they can all stand together to support one common good, “a strong America,” according to the Daily Mail. Those parties interested in joining the new […]

There are 160 known, active Ku Klux Klan chapters in the United States, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. How many are near you? Here’s an interactive map. RELATED STORIES: Activist Hackers Release KKK Names After Threats Against Ferguson Protesters Meet The Black Cop Who Went Undercover In The KKK KKK Leader: Klan […]

Podcast Download Pastor Jamal Bryant joined Roland Martin, host of “NewsOne Now,” to address the intense criticism that he has received for a portion of a sermon he preached a month ago. In the sermon, “I’m My Enemies’ Worst Nightmare,” Bryant references a Chris Brown song saying “These hoes ain’t loyal.” Bryant explained the context […]

Author and musician Daryl Davis shared his story of converting active Ku Klux Klan members and pulling them out of the racist group Thursday on “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin. According to Davis, the members of the Klan that quit gave him their robes. Davis also detailed an instance when an Imperial Wizard quit and […]

Keshia Thomas (pictured below center), a Black woman who protected a White man at a Ku Klux Klan rally back in 1996, recently recalled her act, according to BBC News. SEE ALSO: Ohio Teacher Suspended Over Racist Facebook Post “I knew what it was like to be hurt,” Thomas said. “The many times that, that […]

Today on “NewsOne Now,” Roland Martin talked with callers about Rep. Alan Grayson comparing the Tea Party to the KKK in a campaign email. Some of the debates turned heated, with Martin maintaining that despite all of the things the Tea Party has done that are worthy of criticism, hysterical comparisons serve no one. He said it’s […]

White supremacist and extreme-Right organization the Ku Klux Klan began their reign of terror in Tennessee in 1865. Early on, it was a group made of largely southern Democrats who rallied against Black and White Republicans in the South and championed the suppression of equal rights for all. With many members enraged by the Reconstruction […]

Taking “can’t we all just get along” to another level, members of the Grape Street Crips gang in Memphis have joined with members of Ku Klux Klan to protest a planned KKK rally in Memphis on March 30th, reports ABC24.com. Protest organizer, Dajuan Horton, said that the purpose of the counter-protest is to meet racism […]

For anyone who still believes we live in a “post-racial” society, the city of Selma, Ala., is planning to erect a monument honoring Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, also known as the first Grand Wizard Of the Ku-Klux Klan, according to Change.org. SEE ALSO: Paul Ryan And Black America The decision to build a monument […]

A new report finds an explosion in the number of “patriot”/militia and hate groups in the U.S., tied in part to the economy, and the election of Barack Obama as president. But one organization isn’t a part of the trend: the Ku Klux Klan. SEE ALSO: Tom Hanks Narrates Obama Campaign Film In fact, the […]