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'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the ...
Taylor Swift Once Attacked a KKK Confederate Statue
It’s upsetting that monuments honoring members of the Ku Klux Klan are still standing. Taylor Swift advocated the removal of a KKK leader /Confederate general. She also applauded the removal of the ...
Lawmakers honor 15 enslaved men who built Tennessee Capitol, seek permanent memorial
Tennessee lawmakers for the first time honored the work of 15 enslaved men rented by the State of Tennessee in the 1800s to ...
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Lawmakers honor 15 enslaved men who built Tennessee Capitol, seek permanent memorial
Keeble, the first Black representative to the Tennessee legislature ... alcove where a bust of Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest once stood.
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Bo Watson wins contest for most inhumane senator with undocumented students bill | Letters
That's shameful. Tennessee is the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. We should be moving away from this checkered past, not sliding back towards the same ideologies that birthed that hate group in ...
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The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed
Two months later, Forrest represented Tennessee at the Democratic Party ... Under Forrest’s leadership, membership in the violent, racist Ku Klux Klan spread almost everywhere in the South.
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Memphis federal buildings on chopping block as Trump looks to sell government properties
citing Davis' ties to the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy. In 2022, Horton's name was the only one on the building. Horton was the first Black judge to be appointed to the bench in Tennessee's ...