May 8, 2009: Cross Burnings in 21st-Century America

America's Conservatism Inc. must reckon with how their ideological hubris reinvigorated racist structures utilized to humiliate labor advocates and confuse economic reforms.

May 08, 2023

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2009 - A New York Post cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police has drawn outrage from civil rights leaders.

Today in 2009, not 1929, a former “exalted cyclops” of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan traveled to an African American neighborhood in Ozark, Alabam…

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