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Now-fired Muskegon, Mich., police officer Charles Anderson has an excuse for having Confederate flags displayed throughout his home and a Ku Klux Klan application hanging on his bedroom wall: He’s simply a history buff and a fan of the ’80s TV show “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Related Story: Charles Anderson,…
Charles Anderson, the Michigan police officer found to have KKK memorabilia in his home, has been fired following a disciplinary hearing within the Muskegon Police Department. Last month, Anderson was outed when a couple, the Mathises, toured his home that was for sale. After seeing the framed KKK document, “Knights…
Stapleton, a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, has voted to keep its name, which has sparked controversy. It’s named after a Ku Klux Klan member. Activists in Colorado said that it wrongly immortalized a racist Denver mayor who was in office almost century ago. Others said the name was simply a…
Muskegon, Michigan police officer Charles Anderson is on administrative leave after a Black man was touring his home during an open house and found Ku Klux Klan memorabilia. Rob Mathis, an Army veteran and prospective homebuyer posted a photo on Facebook of a framed KKK “application for citizenship” hung on…
Civil War Confederate General, slave trader and early KKK leader now has his own special day in Tennessee. Governor Bill Lee signed a proclamation making Saturday, July 13, Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in the state, according to WTVF. Veterans for Peace and other activists have been trying for years to…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appointed Tony Perkins to U.S. Commission on International Freedom in May 2018 despite fierce backlash from civil rights groups and anyone who cares about freedom for people of color. Now, Perkins has been tapped to chair the U.S. Commission on International Freedom. He was elected…
West Virginia State Representative Eric Porterfield is in hot water after he compared the LGBTQ community to the Ku Klux Klan on Feb. 8. The Republican representative made the inflammatory statement after speaking to a reporter regarding an anti-LGBTQ discrimination amendment. Porterfield was a staunch supporter of legislation crafted to…
The absence of diversity in the President Trump’s administration has been a subject of ongoing debate. In an interview on Thursday with “The Breakfast Club,” a radio show based in New York City, Angela Rye, an attorney, political commentator and a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, implied that…
White supremacists gathering for the Unite the Right 2 rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C., showed up 40 strong. Meanwhile, thousands of people met in the city prepared for a counter-protest. With half of the seven-acre Lafayette park being full of anti-racist groups, they were certainly outnumbered. And the scene…
In the nation’s capital, Maxim Smith, who is white, bashed a Black man, Ketchazo Paho, in the head with a bicycle lock. The wound was so deep that he needed 18 stitches. Paho, age 34, said he was driving in Georgetown early Monday morning. He said Smith was on a…
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