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Nicholas Goldberg: Why do we still honor J. Edgar Hoover's racist, homophobic legacy?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFormer FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was a racist and a homophobe. Today's FBI shouldn't name its...
What You Don’t Know About the FBI Director Who Targeted MLK
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBettmann Archive/GettyJ. Edgar Hoover doesn’t have a lot of admirers. Author Beverly Gage, who just...
How the FBI Worked With Hollywood to Build the Crime Genre’s Early Years In Film and TV
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 10 months agoMartin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon is the latest turn in a...
The FBI Wasn't Supposed to Be Political—But It Has Been Since the Beginning
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFBI director J. Edgar Hoover (left) has a laugh with President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Credit - Wally...
Black Panther HQ could become National Park site as feds aim to add Black history to America’s story
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJ. Edgar Hoover, America’s infamous former FBI director, deemed the Black Panthers the “greatest...
Percival Everett, Ling Ma among nominees for critics prizes
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George...
Ex-Ohio high court judge's play examines power struggle between JFK, Hoover
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoColumbus playwright Herb Brown, a former Ohio Supreme Court justice, has always been fascinated by...
RFK Jr. Defends Kennedy Administration Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAhead of Martin Luther King Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his family’s role in authorizing...
50 years ago, women made history at FBI: "I certainly wasn't going to fail"
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJ. Edgar Hoover, who served as FBI director for nearly half a century, said women could not be...
'Rustin' fact check: Did J. Edgar Hoover spread rumors about him and Martin Luther King?
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBayard Rustin was an unsung hero of the civil rights movement. But he’s finally getting the...