In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson Johnson and Signe Waller-Foxworth remember shouting at armed Klansmen and burning a confederate flag, until eventually police forced the KKK inside and the standoff ended without violence. The labor organizers felt ... Show More
Aug 2020
The Real Black Klansman | Crime
Vanessa Kirby meets Ron Stallworth, the black Colorado cop who fooled the USA's most notorious racists. In 1979, Ron and a white colleague infiltrated a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Posing as two sides of the same alter-ego, they led a double-pronged attack on the group, ev ... Show More
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May 2023
White Squares Off Against the KKK
In its fight for a dry, anti-alcohol nation, the Anti-Saloon League recruited the Ku Klux Klan to join its mission to make Prohibition the law of the land. Klan members themselves weren’t specifically pro-Temperance, but they were happy to use dry laws as a way to target and perp ... Show More
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May 2022
#376: BONUS: The Shooting in Buffalo, New York
<p>We are saddened and angered at yet another shooting in America. This one a targeted attack against Black people. How do we stop this endless, seemingly predictable, cycle of mass shootings? Are there new answers to these old questions? Join us.</p><p>Remembering those mur ... Show More
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