All posts tagged "Ku Klux Klan"

Lawyers for a Black man serving life in prison in Alabama are seeking to overturn his conviction for the murder of a white woman, citing evidence his state-provided attorney was active in the Ku Klux Klan.

“Was he well positioned to represent a Black man?” one investigator asked.

“I think the answer is no.”...

U.S. Army reservist Christopher Woodall organized a “white nationalist” paramilitary camp while serving in the North Carolina Army National Guard.

He boasted of his Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi ties.

He openly supported Russia’s war on Ukraine....

In an interview Thursday with Raw Story, a Missouri gubernatorial candidate with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan blasted the Missouri GOP for attempting to remove him from the ballot.

“The GOP knew exactly who I am,” Darrell Leon McClanahan III told Raw Story via text message after a brief phone interview. “They’re just mad my daughter drew number 22 making me number one on the ballot they’re a bunch of hypocrites.”

McClanahan’s lucky ballot position draw placed him at the top of the Republican candidate list for Missouri governor, prompting a state senator to urge the Missouri Republican Party to remove him from the ballot. ...

Since last year, the neo-Nazi group 2119 has committed acts of violence targeting Jews, Black people, LGBTQ+ people and other perceived enemies.

I began reporting on 2119 in an effort to expose its actions. As I investigated the group’s leadership and activities, and publication of a two-part project neared, neo-Nazi threats against me escalated. Online harassment led to phone calls and doxxing, which devolved into death threats and, most recently, visits to my home.

My ordeal began in November, when 2119 called me out by name in profane Telegram posts laden with racism, antisemitism and homophobia....

Early in 2023, Raw Story announced that it would heavily invest in our investigative journalism with the goal of bringing you hard-hitting and incisive news you wouldn’t find elsewhere.

Since then, Raw Story has hired a team of investigative journalists and published several hundred exclusive stories and reported commentaries that have together shone significant light into the darkest corners of politics and government.

We’ve also won three major national awards for this work, including Editor & Publisher naming Raw Story the “best news/political blog” of 2023....

GREENSBORO, N.C. — An avowed white nationalist who openly supports Russia is a member of the U.S. Army Reserves, recently served in the North Carolina Army National Guard and worked for a local sheriff’s office as a detention officer, according to a Raw Story investigation.

Christopher Woodall, 34, of Winston-Salem, N.C., has a long history of activism in the white power movement that coincided with his service in the U.S. military and government work.

In an interview this week with Raw Story, Woodall acknowledged that he is the author of texts that promote a “white nationalist training group," and added: “I don’t see it as an issue to have a white-friendly group of people that get together and teach each other.” ...