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On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church ...
Four young girls -- Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, all 14, and Carol Denise McNair, just 11, -- were killed. More than 20 others were injured at the scene.
Several reporters and media groups displayed questionable news judgment this week when they gave credence to a person on the Internet who claimed to have discovered that there are four card-carrying ...
Maybe I have been too exposed to the Ku Klux Klan and their sympathizers over the years - whether they were dressed in a white robe or now wearing a Brooks Brothers' suit, I say facetiously. I have ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Day after day a plainly dressed witness, an Imperial Dragon, or Grand Nighthawk, a Kludd, or some other officer of the Ku Klux Klan sits quietly on the witness stand, across the ...
CINCINNATI — World-renowned blues musician Daryl Davis, known for his work in convincing many Klansmen to denounce the KKK, spoke Wednesday at Cincinnati Country Day. The school said junior Addison ...
U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, gives an interview in his office at Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. on April 28, 2023. Gonzales is a member of the House Appropriations ...
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – This week marks an important part of Mississippi history. It’s the 25th anniversary since Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers. That ...
Time now for StoryCorps. In 1957, Willie Edwards Jr. was eating dinner with his family in Montgomery, Ala., when he got called into work. He never came home. Years later, a former member of the KKK ...
That’s a rather striking picture, isn’t it? While most people try to avoid the KKK, Southern blues musician Daryl Davis has been seeking them out for decades. His goal is simple: He wants to ask ...
Note: While history shouldn’t require a spoiler alert, this blog does contain some minor ones regarding the HBO series Watchmen. “You know how you can tell the difference between a masked cop and a ...
WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, ripped into his party’s right flank for voting against billions in foreign aid for U.S. allies last week, castigating his ultraconservative peers as ...