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,…
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Charles Anderson, Muskegon Police Officer Found to Have KKK Items in his Home is Fired
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…
Hank Aaron Offers Platform For Young Black Baseball Players
It has been 45 years since Hank Aaron became baseball’s all-time home run leader, a tittle he held for more than three decades. At the age of 85, “Hammering Hank” still has an impact on the game he loves. On Aug. 2, the 44 young Black players who were selected…
Michigan Police Officer Charles Anderson on Leave After KKK Items Found in his Home
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…
Is That Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in a Racist Yearbook Photo? Investigators Don’t Know
After several months of investigating, it could not be “conclusively” determined that a racist photo on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page was him. The photo, which first surfaced in February, was of two people – one dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and…
KKK Assignment Asks Fifth Graders to Explain Justification of Racism
A fifth grade teacher in South Carolina has been placed on administrative leave after asking her students to provide a justification for the actions of the Ku Klux Klan. Tremain Cooper, an uncle of one of the students who received the assignment, identified the teacher on Facebook as Kerri Roberts,…
High School Football Players Kicked Off Team for Wearing White Hoods, Burning Cross in Photo
Five football players at Creston Community High School in a predominantly white Iowa town chose to wear white hoods evoking the Ku Klux Klan, wave a Confederate flag and burn a cross, then take a photo and share it on social media. The racist picture has gone viral, and the…
Is the 'Ku Klux Klowns' Lynching Display an Effective Protest
INDECLINE, an activist artist collective, created eight Ku Klux Klan effigies wearing clown costumes underneath KKK robes and hanged them from a single tree in Richmond’sJoseph BryanPark to protest white supremacy. An effigy wore a placard that read: “If Attacked By a Mob of Clowns, Go for the Juggler.” Richmond,…
Corporate Leaders Must Take a Stand
In a previous column, I advocated for CEOs to speak with this president. I take back what I said based on President Trump’s behavior over the past six months. The breaking point came this weekend in the aftermath of Charlottesville. Equating neo-Nazis with Americans counter-protesting white supremacy is beneath contempt….