Refine Search

  •  
  •  
Society's cancer

...anonymously accused of being a communist, and, as a result of just the accusation and no proof, they lost their jobs. The Ku Klux Klan hid behind anonymity to terrorize and even execute people during the civil rights era. If left unchallenged, this...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-04-19/societys-cancer
Open Forum
Suit: Minn. high school students mocked blacks

...District in Utah, for example, Costello's group is hosting tolerance workshops this week after a student wore a Ku Klux Klan-style hood to a pep rally in March. She also pointed to a case in Louisiana in Oct. 23, 2009, in which several...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-08-04/suit-minn-high-school-students-mocke
News
KKK banned from wearing masks at New York City rally

NEW YORK -- The city succeeded in unmasking the Ku Klux Klan for a weekend rally when a federal appeals court ruled that it could refuse to permit the event if participants insisted on wearing...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/102399/new_1023990084.shtml
News
Rights activist to receive medal of freedom

...one group of locals struck a chord so deep within Mildred "Millie" Jeffrey that she never forgot how she felt. The Ku Klux Klan had a strong following in the Midwest in those days. "I remember the parades," Jeffrey said Monday. "They had...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/080800/nne_0808000011.shtml
News
Scrutiny of FBI increases in wake of document foul-up

...000 cases. --In an infamous 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church that killed four black girls, a former Ku Klux Klan member was convicted last week in part based on tape-recorded admissions that the FBI had made of the defendant...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/051201/nne_0512010055.shtml
News
Harry Potter books attract students to CLC class

...modern-day prejudice in the real world. Eventually, the discussion summons a parallel between the seepage of the Ku Klux Klan into the fabric of 20th century America and the wizard world fighting the dark arts whose members have infiltrated that...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/051701/tem_0517010022.shtml
Entertainment
OTHER OPINIONS

...Coalition rightfully filed a federal complaint alleging violations of equal protection and free speech rights. The Ku Klux Klan filed a similar suit in 1997 and won the right to adopt a stretch of Missouri highway. Missouri and 28 other states...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/081801/opi_0818010001.shtml
Opinion
At Minnesota march, at least, Ku Klux Klan will be unmasked

ST. PAUL -- In Minnesota, Ku Klux Klan members can rally, but they can't hide. A rarely used state law prohibits people from wearing masks in public to conceal their...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/082401/sne_0824010051.shtml
News
Man accused of assaulting boy after KKK rally turns himself in

INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) -- A second man accused of assaulting a mixed-race, 4-year-old boy after a Ku Klux Klan rally turned himself in Wednesday. Authorities said Jarod Sparks, 25, surrendered to Inver Grove Heights police around 11 a.m.

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/083001/sne_0830010007.shtml
News
Experts doubt U.S. hate groups to blame for anthrax

...about using anthrax to strike at the U.S. government. But experts who monitor extremists doubt that neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan or domestic militia organizations have the scientific know-how or the financial means to carry out the anthrax-by-mail...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/110901/nne_1109010022.shtml
News

CONTACT US

  • Switchboard 218-829-4705
  • Report News 218-855-5860
  • Advertising 218-855-5835
  • Classifieds 218-855-5898
  • Circulation 218-855-5897
  • Vox Pop 218-855-5888
  • View the Staff Directory
  • or Send feedback

ADVERTISING

SUBSCRIBER SERVICES

SOCIAL NETWORKING