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When his captors uncinched the noose around his neck and shoved him into a wooden chair, Alex Rackley might have assumed his ordeal was over. He had already endured a flurry of kicks and punches, the repeated crack of a wooden truncheon, ritual humiliation, and a mock lynching. But it wasn’t over. It was about to get much, much worse. …

Responding to the latest violent incidents in Milwaukee over the weekend, Babu Omowale, the so-called national minister of defense for the People’s New Black Panther Party, declared  “Is it a war? Yes, it is.  It’s a war against black people because we’re the ones being murdered.” Omowale is also co-founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, a black militant …

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Plastic bags containing rocks, a lollipop and a Ku Klux Klan recruitment flier have been found on residents’ front lawns and local law enforcement officials say the issue has them concerned. The baggies, as they were described, have turned up in Wilkes-Barre Township, Warrior Run, Hughestown and other towns on both sides of the Susquehanna River. On …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights in the 1960s. Membership dwindled, a unified group fractured, and one-time members went to prison for a string of murderous attacks against blacks. Many assumed the group was dead, a …

ANDERSON, Ind. — The Ku Klux Klan says it’s planning a recruiting rally in Madison next month, the city in Jefferson County in southern Indiana, not Madison County in central Indiana as originally thought. Last week, the Klan passed out literature in Johnson County with a phone number on it. RTV6’s Derrik Thomas called the number, and eventually heard from …

ANAHEIM, California –  The home of Disneyland, the self-proclaimed Happiest Place on Earth, is also the town where the Ku Klux Klan once ran the City Council, patrolled city streets and rallied 10,000 people in a city park. That rally back in 1924 proved to be a turning point for Anaheim, which ousted the Klan and broke ground on Disneyland …

MADISON, Ind. —  As several Ku Klux Klan leaders gathered Saturday to urge supporters to “take back the country you are losing,” they were met by hundreds of counter-protesters who hoped to send the message that the scenic town overlooking the Ohio River would not welcome hate. A barricade of law enforcement officers divided Richard Preston, imperial wizard of the …

A University of Virginia professor has taken a leave of absence from the school after he came under scathing attack over the weekend for likening the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan. Douglas Muir, who teaches at the school, commented on Facebook that he believed that Black Lives Matter was the ‘biggest’ racist organization since the KKK. …

Ozark County found itself in the national news spotlight 30 years ago this week as local, state and federal law enforcement officers descended on a white-supremist military-style compound at Price Place, Arkansas, just over the state line south of Pontiac. A story in the May 1, 1985, edition of the Ozark County Times, written by longtime publisher and editor Ruby …

After the social upheavals of the 1960s failed to trigger the vast systemic changes many protesters sought, the early 1970s saw a number of militant groups form secret underground cells that pledged to use violence in an attempt to fight for civil rights, end the Vietnam War and, in the minds of the hard core, trigger a violent revolution in …