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Appeals court upholds conviction in KKK killings
4:24 PM on 03/15/2010
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan in the kidnapping...
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Was the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. after a $100,000 KKK bounty?
10:39 AM on 03/10/2010
Was James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., motivated at least in part to kill the civil rights leader by a $100,000 bounty offered by a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan group?...
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Racist incidents, protests spread at UC campuses
2:01 PM on 03/03/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread as a KKK-style hood was found on campus...
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Slideshow: Worst obstructionists in black history
8:01 AM on 02/18/2010
African-Americans have been met with numerous road blocks to freedom but have nonetheless held firm that the US Constitution guarantees freedom and equality for all...
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Author follows cold cases, examines Mississippi's racial struggles
8:14 AM on 12/22/2009
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Harry MacLean was a daily spectator in 2007 when federal prosecutors put part of Mississippi's troubled racial past on trial...
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KKK rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game
5:20 AM on 11/22/2009
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU...
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Oklahoma church defaced with 'KKK' graffiti
1:43 PM on 11/05/2009
VIDEO - The signs of hate are everywhere at the Philemon Missionary Baptist Church in Ada, Oklahoma...
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Our kids are a bigger threat to themselves than KKK ever was
10:52 AM on 10/02/2009
OPINION - Chicago, once a haven for black culture and economic progress, has become more dangerous for black youth than Mississippi was for their forebears...
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Klansman might walk on charges of kidnap and murder
5:34 PM on 07/30/2009
The U.S. Supreme Court should decide whether a reputed Ku Klux Klansman should have been tried on a kidnapping charge 43 years after two black men were abducted and slain in rural Mississippi, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
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Bloodied KKK robe may offer clues to past
1:31 PM on 07/21/2009
Since April, a bloodied KKK robe from the 1950s has become part of a historical investigation. An anonymous donor who discovered it in an attic gave it to the Civil Rights Museum.
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Black man addresses city council in KKK garb
11:20 AM on 07/17/2009
Los Angeles City Council members walked out after a man in a Ku Klux Klan outfit refused to remove his hood Wednesday during a public comments period. Councilman Dennis Zine asked the man, identified as Michael Hunt, twice to remove the hood...
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Reputed Klansman appeals to U.S. Supreme Court
12:12 PM on 06/12/2009
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) -- A reputed Ku Klux Klansman convicted of kidnapping two black men 43 years after the abductions wants the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if the statute of limitations had passed. James Ford Seale was convicted in June 2007 of abducting two 19-year-olds who authorities say were...
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Prosecutor pursuing 'all black people should leave Wal-Mart' remark
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (AP) - A racial comment made over the public-address system at a Wal-Mart store in southern New Jersey is being investigated as a possible bias crime...
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