DANIEL SLIM / Getty By bawintern1 on July 7, 2025 I will never understand the intellectual dishonesty of white people who still celebrate the Confederacy. The whole reason the American Civil War was ...

National Fried Chicken Day prompts reflection on the dish's complex history. Originating from the culinary skills of enslaved ...

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Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group says officials broke state law by planning an exhibit on ties to slavery, segregation ...

The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a state park with the largest Confederate monument ...

Virginia Commonwealth University's “Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1940” pinpoints where more than 2,000 local "klaverns," as they were known, were organized across the nation.

Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 book, The Clansman, idealized the K.K.K. as a righteous crusade led by noble men, and D. W. Griffith immortalized the book in 1914 with his film, The Birth of a Nation.

At noon on a Friday, two men in the robes of the Ku Klux Klan rode their horses down Pittsfield’s North Street. The date was Jan. 7, 1916, and they were heralding the debut of D.W. Griffith’s film ...

With its racist portrayals of Black Americans and disputed views on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Ku Klux Klan, D.W. Griffith’s film, “The Birth of a Nation,” was controversial from ...