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Actor Adam Driver says he had KKK neighbors in Indiana

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KKK member gets 4 years in prison for gunshot at rally

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Demonstrators march on the campus of the University of Virginia in anticipation of the anniversary of last year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

The Latest: White nationalists rally near White House

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at an event in New York, Monday, April 2, 2018. Cuomo was touting the funds in the new state budget to help fix decrepit public housing in New York City. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Gov. Cuomo orders statewide probe into KKK flyers

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In this July 22, 2016, photo, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke talks to the media at the Louisiana Secretary of State's office in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

David Duke, ex-Klan leader, ordered to turn over records related to deadly Charlottesville rally

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Director Spike Lee pose for photographers during a photo call for the film 'BlacKkKlansman' at the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 15, 2018. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Tragedy hits and Spike Lee rewrites ‘BlacKkKlansman’

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

In this April 26, 2018 photo, Nicole Klan runs on the Montour Trail in Canonsburg, Pa. Klan lost 92 pounds and ran a half-marathon. (Celeste Van Kirk /Observer-Reporter via AP)

Woman to compete in half-marathon after losing 92 pounds

By KAREN MANSFIELD and (Washington) Observer-Reporter - Associated Press

KKK robe showed up at a Maryland auction house

By CHRISTINA TKACIK - Associated Press

In this file photo, a member of the black student protest group Concerned Student 1950 gestures while addressing a crowd following the announcement that University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe would resign Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, at the university in Columbia, Mo. Wolfe resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over his handling of racial tensions at the school. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) **FILE**

Russian bots stoked racial tensions during University of Missouri protests: Report

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

North Carolina KKK group recruiting in northern Minnesota

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This undated photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 &quot;Mississippi Burning&quot; slayings of three civil rights workers. Killen died in prison at the age of 92, the state's corrections department announced Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)

‘Mississippi Burning’ KKK leader Killen dies in prison at 92

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2005, file photo, Edgar Ray Killen sits in court in Philadelphia, Miss. Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 &quot;Mississippi Burning&quot; slayings of three civil rights workers, died in prison at the age of 92, the state's corrections department announced Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Man convicted of 3 killing civil rights workers dies in jail

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

Milwaukee weighs punishing company over racist displays

By IVAN MORENO - Associated Press

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley told the White House earlier this week to revoke Brett Talley and Jeff Mateer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Brett Talley and Jeff Mateer pulled by Trump after Grassley warning

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2017, file photo, Barbara Butler, accompanied by her husband Phillip, speaks during a news conference at their attorney's office in Washington. Four decades after a Catholic priest who was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on the couple's lawn, he finally wrote them an apology. The Rev. William Aitcheson told Philip and Barbara Butler he was &quot;blinded by hate and ignorance&quot; when he targeted them in 1977 at their home in College Park, Maryland. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Priest who used to be KKK member apologizes 40 years later

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In this Nov. 7, 2017 photograph, media and invited guests were able to get a &quot;sneak peak&quot; into the state's two new history museums, the Museum of Mississippi History, seen, and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, in Jackson, Miss. Work crews and archivists are putting the final touches on the two museums set to open Dec. 9. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Hard history: Mississippi museums explore slavery, Klan era

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Ellie Dahmer, wife of Vernon Dahmer of Hattiesburg, who was killed in 1966 by the Ku Klux Klan, reacts as she recognized a subject in one of the exhibits in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum during a private preview Friday, Nov. 10, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. Dahmer was targeted because he encouraged fellow African-Americans to register to vote during the Jim Crow era. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Slain activist’s family sees Mississippi Civil Rights Museum

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

White supremacists once again can easily access Stormfront.org, the internet's oldest-operating hate site, after its sudden disappearance last month. (Associated Press/File)

Stormfront, web’s oldest white-supremacist site, reemerges after row with registrar

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Former Google engineer James Damore told CNN Tech on Aug. 15, 2017, that critics are portraying him as a "Nazi" for writing "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber," the internal diversity memo that resulted in his firing. (CNN Tech screenshot)

James Damore, fired Google employee, steps into fresh controversy with KKK poll tweet

By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times