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Vice President Kamala Harris waves as she boards Air Force Two at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Saturday, July 27, 2024. Harris is traveling to Berkshire, Mass., to participate in a political event. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) **FILE**

Kamala Harris’ history of comparing DHS to racists, including equating ICE to the KKK

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Joseph Moore looks out of a window at his home in Jacksonville, Fla., on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Moore worked for nearly 10 years as an undercover informant for the FBI, infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in Florida, foiling at least two murder plots, according to investigators, and investigating ties between law enforcement and the white supremacist organization. "From where I sat, with the intelligence laid out, I can tell you that none of these agencies have any control over any of it. It is more prevalent and consequential than any of them are willing to admit." (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted, File)

New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement

By Jason Dearen - Associated Press

A woman who attended a dedication ceremony for a new Mississippi historical marker walks by the marker on Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Meadville, Miss. The sign provides information about the 1964 Ku Klux Klan kidnapping and killing of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. Law enforcement officers found the bodies of the two Black teenagers in the Mississippi River while searching for three civil rights workers who had been kidnapped and killed by the Klan in June 1964 in a different part of Mississippi. A reputed Klansman, James Ford Seale, was convicted in 2007 in federal court in Jackson, Miss., on charges of kidnapping and conspiracy related to the fatal abduction of Dee and Moore. Seale died in prison in 2011. (AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus)

Arizona city considers replacing street names tied to KKK

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Former NFL running back Jerone Davison released a 30-second ad Wednesday entitled "Make Rifles Great Again" that shows him preparing to confront a dozen Klansmen in white hoods as they attack his home. (https://jeroneforcongress.com/)

Arizona candidate Jerone Davison wards off KKK with AR-15 in viral campaign ad

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Members of the Memphis Greenspace board take a look at the now former grave of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, in Memphis, Tenn., on Friday, June 11, 2021. Workers removed the remains of Forrest and his wife from the Tennessee park, marking another step in the process of moving their bodies out of Memphis and to a museum hundreds of miles away. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian via AP)

Early KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest’s remains removed from Memphis park

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 18, 2017, file photo, a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest sits in a park in Memphis, Tenn. Lawyers in Tennessee are seeking a judge's approval for the disinterment of Confederate general and slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains from his burial plot in a Memphis park, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz, File)

Memphis police: Arrest warrant issued for man who taunted council member at KKK leader’s grave

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

This image released by ABC shows Caleb Kennedy performing on the singing competition series &quot;American Idol,&quot; in Los Angeles that aired May 9. Kennedy has dropped out of the singing competition after a video circulated showing him sitting next to someone wearing what appears to be a Ku Klux Klan hood. Kennedy, advanced into the Top 5, apologized for the video on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, saying “it displayed actions that were not meant to be taken in that way.” (Eric McCandless/ABC via AP)

Caleb Kennedy, ‘American Idol’ contest, off ABC show after controversial video emerges

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

People gather to watch the installation of a historical marker that tells the story of the lynching of Porter Flournoy Turner in Atlanta's Druid Hills community, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Porter Turner was lynched near the area in August 1945. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Marker honoring Georgia lynching victim installed in Atlanta

By TYLER ESTEP and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Associated Press

Chauvin Guilty Verdict Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

A fitting anniversary for the Ku Klux Klan Act

By Adam Shelton

Ku Klux Klan membership records made public in Denver

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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2017 file photo, the Texas State Capitol Confederate Monument stands on the south lawn in Austin, Texas. As a racial justice reckoning continues to inform conversations across the country, lawmakers nationwide are struggling to find solutions to thousands of icons saluting controversial historical figures. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Georgia park honoring confederacy gets first Black chair

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Advisory panel says to move Forrest statue to museum

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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2020, a massive mountainside carving depicting Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson is shown, in Stone Mountain, Ga. In the shadow of the world’s largest memorial to the Confederacy, the City of Stone Mountain will host its first-ever Juneteenth celebration this summer. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

Stone Mountain Village to hold 1st Juneteenth celebration

By ZACHARY HANSEN and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Associated Press

No charges after klan flag hangs next to Black family’s home

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The bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest is displayed in the state capitol Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee announced Wednesday that a state panel that has the authority to help remove the bust of the former Confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan will take up the issue next week. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Tennessee moves vote on Confederate bust in Capitol to March

By JONATHAN MATTISE - Associated Press

KKK member pleads guilty to driving into crowd of protesters

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Hall of Famer Hank Aaron waves to the crowd during Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, N.Y., in this Sunday, July 28, 2013, file photo. Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth but went on to break the career home run record in the pre-steroids era, died early Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. He was 86. The Atlanta Braves said Aaron died peacefully in his sleep. No cause of death was given. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File) **FILE**

Late Hank Aaron may replace KKK leader’s name on school

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Sacha Baron Cohen arrives in character as Borat for the film premiere of &quot;Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,&quot; in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Oct. 23, 2006. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) ** FILE **

CPAC: Sacha Baron Cohen Ku Klux Klan claim ‘an absolute lie’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Some of the racist material collected over decades by former Ku Klux Klan leader John Howard is seen on Dec. 9, 2020, in Columbia, S. C.. Howard also ran The Redneck Store in Laurens, South Carolina, for decades. The Echo Group is renovating the shop into a community center and racial reconciliation museum. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Work begins to turn SC racist store into racial harmony site

By BY JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press

Troy dedicates building named for John Lewis

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