Racism
White teen pleads guilty in Miss. hate crime
JACKSON, Miss. — A white teenager pleaded guilty to murder and a hate crime Wednesday for running over a black man with his pickup truck in a killing a judge called a stain on Mississippi that will take years to fade.
Date: 03/21/2012 | Nation & World
3 suspended from Oregon high school after racist tweets
LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. -- Three Lake Oswego High School students have been suspended in an investigation of racist tweets aimed at a member of the state championship football team who had recently transferred to the school.
Date: 03/07/2012 | Northwest
Republican campaign rhetoric raises racial concerns (Video)
WASHINGTON — Hoping to win the hearts of Southern conservatives, Newt Gingrich leaned into his argument that President Barack Obama is a "food stamp president" and that poor people should want paychecks, not handouts — a pitch that earned him a standing ovation in South Carolina during...
Date: 01/18/2012 | Nation & World
Keeping the dream alive
In Everett, the faithful celebrate King's legacy (gallery)
Date: 01/16/2012 | Local News
Tuskegee Airmen film ‘Red Tails’ screened at White House
WASHINGTON -- Star Wars creator George Lucas may have had a tough time getting Hollywood interested in a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, but he has the attention of President Barack Obama.
Date: 01/14/2012 | Nation & World
University sorry band played 'Dixie'
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Missouri State University is apologizing after its band performed "Dixie" at a site where three black men were lynched in 1906.Interim President Clif Smart said the song was an "unfortunate selection" and won't be played again in public.
Date: 12/18/2011 | Nation & World
Kentucky church to revisit its ban on interracial couples
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- When Stella Harville brought her black boyfriend to her family's all-white church in rural Kentucky, she thought nothing of it. She and Ticha Chikuni worshipped there whenever they were in town, and he even sang before the congregation during one service.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Nation & World
Black student sparks debate with his Confederate flag
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A black college student who drew complaints for displaying a Confederate flag in his dorm room window said he sees the banner as a symbol of Southern pride and not racism.
Date: 12/01/2011 | Nation & World
Keeping the Tuskegee Airmen’s story alive
EVERETT -- Some stories inspire others to overcome adversity.Eisenhower Middle School students heard a story like that Wednesday, when two members of the Sam Bruce chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen visited the school.
Date: 11/10/2011 | Local News
Racial politics return with allegations against Herman Cain
WASHINGTON -- Herman Cain's rise as a presidential contender was supposed to prove that race didn't matter in the Republican Party. Cain is fast making it the only thing that does.
Date: 11/06/2011 | Nation & World
Alabama battle with illegal aliens recalls state's civil rights past
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The epicenter of the fight over the nation's patchwork of immigration laws is not Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico and became a common site for boycotts. Nor was it any of the four states that were next to pass their own crackdowns.
Date: 10/30/2011 | Nation & World
Suspect writes he targeted 'non-white' Calif. man
PORTLAND, Ore. -- One of two suspects in a Northwest killing spree that left four people dead wrote in a letter to a newspaper that they killed the last victim, in California, because he was "non-white."
Date: 10/21/2011 | Northwest
Cherokees expel descendants of slaves from tribe
TULSA, Okla. — One of the nation's largest American Indian tribes has sent letters to about 2,800 descendants of slaves once owned by its members, revoking their citizenship and cutting their medical care, food stipends, low-income homeowners' assistance and other services.
Date: 09/09/2011 | Nation & World
Man pleads guilty to Spokane MLK Day parade bomb
SPOKANE -- A man with extensive ties to white supremacists pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he planted a bomb along a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane, targeting minorities.
Date: 09/07/2011 | Northwest
'Klan buster' dies at 94 in Fla.
MIAMI -- Author and folklorist Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan six decades ago and exposed its secrets to authorities and the public but was also criticized for possibly exaggerating his exploits, died Saturday. He was 94.
Date: 08/27/2011 | Nation & World
Kennewick candidate wants illegal immigrants shot
KENNEWICK -- A city council candidate in Kennewick has advanced to the general election on a platform that includes calling for illegal immigrants to be executed if they refuse to leave town.
Date: 08/18/2011 | Northwest
Deputies investigating assault of black man by white men near Lake Goodwin on July 4
LAKE GOODWIN -- Police are investigating a July 4 assault near Lake Goodwin that sent an 18-year-old Arlington man to a Seattle hospital with head injuries.
Date: 07/06/2011 | Local News
Man kicked by Seattle police files lawsuit
SEATTLE -- A federal lawsuit has been filed in a case where Seattle police officers kicked a Latino man while using anti-Mexican language.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Northwest
German secret societies feud over Chinese member
EISENACH, Germany -- The fusty world of German nationalist secret societies was at odds Thursday over racial purity demands from a faction that objects to an ethnic Chinese man joining one of the clubs.
Date: 06/17/2011 | Nation & World
Wash. high court reverses murder conviction
SEATTLE -- The Washington state Supreme Court has overturned a man's murder conviction and blasted what one justice called the prosecutor's "repugnant" racial comments during his trial.
Date: 06/09/2011 | Northwest
Ku Klux Klan candidate sees Obama backlash
HELENA, Mont. — A former organizer for the Ku Klux Klan said Wednesday he is running as a Republican for Montana's U.S. House seat because he believes people will back him as part of a backlash to the nation's first black president.
Date: 06/01/2011 | Nation & World
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