Rallies in support of the Confederate Battle Flag continued across the South this weekend following the removal of the racist symbol from the South Carolina State House grounds.
Rallies in support of the Confederate Battle Flag continued across the South this weekend following the removal of the racist symbol from the South Carolina State House grounds.
A federal grand jury indicted Robert Doggart, 63, of Signal Mountain, Tenn. last week for allegedly soliciting others to burn down a mosque in Islamberg, a predominantly African American Muslim hamlet in Hancock, N.Y., near the Pennsylvania border.
At last, after three-and-a-half years, there is no one left to FEAR.
In 2007, Maryland activist Ann Corcoran founded the blog Refugee Resettlement Watch (RWW) in response to what she saw as a “grievous error” by the government in taking in Muslim refugees. In the years since, racist groups have increasingly adopted her as one of their own, no surprise given her growing radicalization.
With the South Carolina House of Representatives voting to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse this morning, further outrage from the League of the South (LOS), a neo-Confederate hate group, can be expected.
Early this morning, after weeks of public protest and more than 10 hours of emotional debate that began Wednesday, the South Carolina House of Representatives voted to permanently remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.
On the eve of the South Carolina House of Representatives taking up the bill on Wednesday, a look at Sens. Lee Bright and Danny Verdin III, two of the three senators who voted against removing the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina Statehouse, shows why the change is so hard for some.