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NC panel recommends against historic marker for Bessie Smith staring down the KKK
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoSmith were alive today, she’d likely be singing the blues about North Carolina. A state advisory...
100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university – part of the terror group’s crusade against...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoRunning to tear it down, they were confronted by several hundredKlansmen screaming threats from 40...
Xavier University anti-Israel protesters dodge charges under 1953 law created to target Ku Klux Klan
New York Post· 2 days agoJulia Lankisch, a Xavier grad, and Sophia Dempsey, a current student, both 22, were arraigned Monday...
Racist flyers litter Hough neighborhood: Left to intimidate its black residents
19 Action News Cleveland· 4 hours agoCLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - 19 News reporter Harry Boomer, a resident of the almost all-Black Hough...
State Library Commissioner compares Library Association to Ku Klux Klan
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMontana State Library Commissioner Carmen Cuthbertson on Friday compared the Montana Library...
Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later, segregation of another sort lingers
San Francisco Chronicle· 56 minutes agoThe lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where schools were at...
North Carolina could ban face masks for medical reasons in public
The Hill via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoThe North Carolina state Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks...
Author talks violence against the labor movement of the 19th and 20th centuries, book
The GW Hatchet· 3 days agoChad Pearson, an assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas, discussed his book “Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth ...
The push to commemorate the night Bessie Smith cussed and chased the KKK out of Concord
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 7 days agoWhat transpired that evening — when Smith stood up to a half dozen members of the Ku Klux Klan in...
Bill would bar wearing a mask in North Carolina. How will that affect people with medical conditions...
Winston-Salem Journal· 2 days agoThe Senate Judiciary committee cleared Tuesday a revamped N.C. House Bill 237, now titled “Unmasking...