Ku Klux Klan
America’s lack of faith in our collective power is a bigger problem than Trump
By Andre Henry — January 26, 2024
(RNS) — Americans' loss of a democratic imagination is bigger than a loss in the ballot box.
100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university – part of the terror group’s crusade against American Catholics
By William Trollinger — December 19, 2023
(The Conversation) — Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted during the hate group’s century and a half of history.
From ‘Nights on Broadway’ to ‘1963’: Candi Staton recalls 16th St. Baptist bombing
By Adelle M. Banks — September 15, 2023
(RNS) — ‘I was thinking about trying to protect my children. And we had to drive right through the worst part of the riots — downtown Birmingham,’ she said.
Leo Frank’s ghost still haunts us
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 31, 2023
It's not just a Broadway musical. It is a pervasive memory. Jew hatred persists.
John Lewis’ co-author talks faith, voting rights and their new graphic novel, ‘Run’
By Adelle M. Banks — August 2, 2021
(RNS) — ‘The lesson I hold with me most from John Lewis and his life and his example is that you have to be persistent,’ said Andrew Aydin.
He claimed white Jews gained from white supremacy. Now he’s more popular than ever.
By Yonat Shimron — March 12, 2021
(RNS) — Historian Marc Dollinger is on a quest to analyze Jewish complicity in racism.
Black pastor leads his white North Carolina church toward a fuller reckoning on race
By Yonat Shimron — December 7, 2020
SALISBURY, North Carolina (RNS) — In one of the most conservative cities in North Carolina, a United Methodist pastor gingerly approaches racial issues without alienating his flock.
Alabama governor apologizes to ’63 church bombing survivor
By Jay Reeves — October 1, 2020
(AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has apologized to a survivor of a racist 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls, calling the blast an ‘egregious injustice,’ but declining Wednesday to pay restitution without legislative involvement.
Jerry Falwell Jr. needs to go, say Liberty University alumni and Christian pastors
By Yonat Shimron — August 14, 2020
(RNS) — The behavior of Liberty University's leader is inexcusable in a president of a Christian university, church pastors and alumni say.
Alabama Southern Baptist pastor resigns after speaking at party for a KKK leader
By Yonat Shimron — July 30, 2020
(RNS) — Will Dismukes, who is also a Republican state representative, resigned from his church after offering an invocation at a birthday party honoring a Confederate general who was also the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
South Carolina minister who fought Klan shop and preaches love now depicted in movie
By Adelle M. Banks — February 26, 2020
(RNS) — ‘When racism raises its ugly head, we must fight,’ the Rev. David Kennedy said in an interview. ‘As we fight, we must love.’
Red Summer, Trump Summer and the politics of hate
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — August 16, 2019
(RNS) — Calling Trump 'un-American' exhibits an ignorance of the violent forces — conquest, enslavement, annexation and immigration — that made America.
‘Best of Enemies’: Real faith and racial reconciliation on the big screen
By Mark I. Pinsky — March 25, 2019
(RNS) — A true-to-life, if farfetched, buddy movie demonstrates the possibility of racial reconciliation forged through a shared Christian faith.
How blackface became a “thing”
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 6, 2019
A forgotten aspect of American Jewish history -- and its puzzling implications.
‘Blood and Faith’: A new book links white nationalists to Christianity
By Kimberly Winston — August 23, 2017
(RNS) — A new book traces how white nationalists have cherry-picked Scripture to craft their exclusive ideology.
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