Ku Klux Klan

Superman, a hero with staying power

2013-05-19 00:00:00

My nomination for American hero of the 20th century is someone who lived half his life in disguise and the other half as the world's most recognizable man. He appeared on more radio broadcasts than Ellery Queen and in more movies than Marlon Brando, who...

'Django Unchained' pays homage to Wagner's 'Siegfried'

2013-04-18 06:00:00

When Los Angeles Opera presented its new production of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" a few years ago at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the packed house included the usual assortment of donors and local opera buffs. Nestled somewhere in the orchestra...

House votes to honor victims of 1963 Birmingham church bombing

2013-04-24 15:33:00

WASHINGTON -- On this year’s 50th anniversary of a deadly church bombing that helped spur passage of landmark civil rights legislation, the House voted Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the...

Dodger great Carl Erskine: Pitching equality

2013-04-09 17:09:00

Jackie Robinson changed baseball and the nation that loves it on April 15, 1947, when he became the first black player to walk onto a major league ball field. He changed Carl Erskine's life in March 1948, when Robinson, by then a Brooklyn Dodgers star,...

Don't play into a paranoid conservative narrative

2013-04-09 12:17:00

Are Roman Catholics, evangelical Christians and “ultra-Orthodox” Jews religious extremists comparable to the Ku Klux Klan and Al Qaeda? Yes, according to a PowerPoint slide that was apparently used by the U.S. Army Reserve in a training...

Library of hate: KKK, racist writings join university collection

2013-04-30 07:00:00

“U.S. GOVERNMENT INITIATES OPEN WARFARE AGAINST AMERICAN PEOPLE,” blared one headline. “DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY UNDER ATTACK,” warned another. “DEATH TO ZOG!” urged a third — referring to Zionist Occupation...

Elwin Wilson dies at 76; apologized for years of violent racism

2013-04-02 07:49:00

Elwin Wilson, the former Ku Klux Klan supporter who publicly apologized for years of violent racism, including the beating of a black Freedom Rider who went on to become a Georgia congressman, has died. He was 76. Wilson died Thursday at a hospital in...

Olen Burrage dies at 82; suspect in slayings of Mississippi civil rights workers

2013-03-24 21:33:00

Olen Burrage, a farmer and Ku Klux Klan member who owned the Mississippi land where the bullet-riddled bodies of three civil rights workers were found buried in the 1960s, has died. He was 82. Burrage, who was acquitted on civil rights charges related...

Ravens' Jacoby Jones to compete on 'Dancing with the Stars'

2013-02-25 09:54:00

� Jacoby Jones of the Baltimore Ravens has some big shoes to fill when he competes on the new season of "Dancing with the Stars." Three NFL players have won the Mirror Ball trophy: Emmitt Smith, Hines Ward and Donald Driver. Jones will try to become...

Blacks in Orange County feel harassed, survey finds

2013-03-09 11:43:50

‘BioShock Infinite’: Video game preview has a few things we need to know

2013-03-01 14:23:04

L.A.'s mayors: A cast of characters

2013-03-03 00:00:00

One was nicknamed "Pinky," for rather obscure reasons. Another, for lamentably obvious ones, was known as "Horse Face," and the military buddies of a third called him "Old Chubby Cheeks." One was a used-car salesman and a KKK member. A couple were...

This KKK flier was left on the doorstep of an African-American family in east Orange over the weekend.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

This copy of the Klansman, a Ku Klux Klan publication, is part of a trove of extremist papers and literature donated to the the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University by the Southern Poverty Law Center last week.

2013-04-29 14:04:24

A student takes a close look at a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood displayed at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama.

2013-04-11 10:44:26