The Latest Breaking News from Ku Klux Klan

Religion, LGBTQ rights collide in Supreme Court case

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is sounding sympathetic to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 6, 2022

Alito "jokes" of Black kids in KKK hoods

Alito later joked about Ashley Madison, a dating site that helps people have affairs

Salon · Dec 6, 2022

Justice Samuel Alito under fire for KKK joke during Supreme Court oral arguments: ‘You can’t make this up’

Observers called his comments ‘really upsetting’

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of '63 KKK blast

Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside an Alabama church 59 years ago

The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2022

Promised changes to Confederate imagery at Stone Mountain slow coming

ATLANTA — The Confederate flags are still there. All four of them.

Tribune News Service · Sep 8, 2022

‘Confederates were traitors’: Ty Seidule on West Point, race and American history

The discovery of a plaque showing a member of the Ku Klux Klan at the US military academy made headlines. One member of the commission which recommended its removal is a historian of the US army and the lost cause myth

The Guardian - US · Sep 5, 2022

Panel: West Point should rename Lee Barracks, nix KKK art

A commission created by Congress is recommending changes at West Point when it comes to commemorating Robert E

The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2022

West Point’s Ku Klux Klan plaque should be removed, commission says

Panel is tasked with recommending which US military assets should be renamed, to remove associations with Confederates

The Guardian - US · Sep 1, 2022

A plaque with the words 'Ku Klux Klan' still hangs on a building at West Point

The marker, depicting a hooded figure, was highlighted in a recent report by a special commission looking into U.S. military assets with names tied to the Confederacy.

WEKU · Aug 31, 2022

At the Jan. 6 hearings, race isn't discussed much. Still, it's a central issue

The Jan. 6 Committee has been uncovering what led up to the insurrection. But just beneath the surface is a central cause of the riot — racism and the fear of losing white power.

WEKU · Aug 23, 2022