White Supremacy

JACKSON, Miss. — Possible presidential contender Gov. Haley Barbour – under fire recently for comments that critics claim minimized the problems of Mississippi's Civil Rights era – said Tuesday night that his state should build…

 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a memo linking Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooter Jared Lee Loughner with the anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, white supremacist Hate Group American Renaissance. Accord…

An official familiar with the Arizona shooting investigation says local authorities are looking at a possible connection between Jared Loughner and an online group known for its anti-government Rhetoric. The official, who spoke on condition of ano…

WASHINGTON (AP) — An official familiar with the Arizona shooting investigation says local authorities are looking at a possible connection between Jared Loughner and an online group known for its anti-government Rhetoric. The official, who s…

Ta-Nehisi Coates asserts that Barbour was ignorant of history. Fine, call him ignorant. But don't call him someone who had "affection" for "white supremacist" organizations, or who was a "fan of moderate strains of white supremacist ideology." C…

One of the absolutely strangest elements of modern American Conservatism is the extraordinary level of hypersensitivity it exhibits about the idea that any White People might be Racists. The view is basically that while, yes, in 1964 Racism migh…

Since Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's unguarded remarks about the supposedly benign nature of white supremacist citizens councils caught notice early this week, he's offered a somewhat better than an I'm-sorry-if-I-offended-anyone Apology. How m…

NEW YORK – The Mississippi Governor’s comments about Citizen Councils, a group whose actions were just as repressive as the Klan's, ignore their impact on African Americans. Michelle Goldberg on the potential 2012 Candidate’s d…