Ku Klux Klan members are planning to gather in Memphis, Tenn., this month to protest the city’s decision to rename a park dedicated to a KKK member. Nathan Bedford Forrest Park is named after a Confederate general and early klansman, who is buried at the site. A branch of the KKK known as the Loyal [...]
Police: Sharmeka Moffitt Set Herself on Fire, Not the KKK
October 24, 2012 | Posted by
In a bizarre twist to the case of Sharmeka Moffitt, the Louisiana woman who claimed she was set on fire by the KKK, authorities are now saying the woman set herself on fire and fabricated the whole story. “The wounds were self-inflicted,” Kyle Hanrahan, an FBI spokesman, told AFP. According to WWLTV, police found Moffitt’s [...]
Louisiana Woman Possibly Set on Fire by KKK in Racist Attack
October 23, 2012 | Posted by
An apparent attack by the KKK that severely injured a black woman in Louisiana has set off shock waves across the country, leaving 20-year-old Sharmeka Moffitt in critical condition after being set on fire by three men in white hoods. While Moffitt said she couldn’t identify the race of the attackers, police have confirmed that [...]
KKK Denied Cleanup Georgia Highway Program Slot
June 14, 2012 | Posted by
In a move that surely prevented an uprising, the International Keystone Knights of the KKK in Union County, Georgia was denied its bid to join the state’s highway cleanup program. In announcing its decision, Transportation Department officials met with lawyers from Georgia’s Attorney General’s office and Gov. Nathan Deal. A statement was released that read, [...]
Ku Klux Klan Wants to Adopt a Georgia Highway
June 11, 2012 | Posted by
The Georgia Department of Transportation has a tough decision to make. The Ku Klux Klan put in an application to Georgia’s Adopt-A-Highway program to clean up a highway in North Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The group wants to clean up one mile of Route 515 in the Appalachian Mountains, near the North Carolina [...]
