Update: This article has been updated to include a comment from Twitter. On Monday morning, one of the country’s most prominent white supremacists was kicked off Twitter. David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan head and outspoken admirer of President Trump, was stripped off his account, separated from his tens of thousands of followers. His critics…
A couple in Brookyln Park, Maryland is helping people cover up old racist or gang related tattoos — for free. Southside Tattoo, run by owners Dave and Elizabeth Cutlip, posted on January 16 offering to cover up any such tattoos free of charge, no questions asked. Since then, the couple has received hundreds of inquiries…
A student at a Bakersfield, California high school went out to recess last week wearing a KKK-style hood, said a classmate who disseminated pictures of the girl on the social media platform Snapchat. “I started Snapchatting it because that was terrible. I did not like that one bit,” Aidan Reed, a fellow student at Highland…
The plug has been pulled on a hotly debated documentary series about the Klu Klux Klan. In a statement released on Saturday, television network A&E wrote that third-party producers had given cash payments to subjects in exchange for appearing on “Escaping the KKK.” The show, which was set to air in January, followed four KKK…
A new documentary series that promises to go inside the private lives of Ku Klux Klan members is drawing instant condemnation on social media. But the Anti-Defamation League, which is partnering with the show’s distributors, is standing up for the program. Set to air on the cable channel A&E, home of reality shows like “Duck…
Concerns over the rise of political and nationalistic hostility toward Jews are valid, but they are not new. The latest surge should not propel us in a panic toward false and even dangerous solutions and alliances. The Forward’s November 30 article “Are Jews for Jesus a Secret Weapon in Anti-Semitism Fight With the ‘Alt-Right’?” makes…
“That’s a big f**king yarmulke,” says a voice coming from behind me. I’m shopping at a Fairway supermarket in Manhattan and turn around to face a white man in his thirties sporting a blonde crew cut. “Excuse me?” I ask. I’m holding onto a shopping cart full of groceries for a dinner my community prepares…
People are wearing safety pins as a way to protest the recent election of Donald Trump. “Wearing my #safetypin because I am a queer, Jewish woman and I stand with all of my fellow humans,” wrote Miranda Day on Twitter. “For my Hispanic great-nephew, my Jewish great-niece and my African-American 2nd cousins I wear my…
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