Former KKK member convicted in deadly bombing up for parole
By JAY REEVES Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was a young Ku Klux Klansman with a reputation for hating blacks in 1963, when a bomb ripped a hole in the side…
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At 150, KKK sees opportunities in US political trends
By JAY REEVES Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights…
Mr. Leo Morton UMKC Chancellor, shares his vision for the University in 2014.
University of Missouri-Kansas City Chancellor, Leo Morton talks with What’s Up Kansas City about his role as leader of the 16,000+ students-enrolled institution. Discusses closing the innovation deficit, progress the…
ALA. M– USEUM HAS ART FORMERLY DISPLAYED ONLY BY CIA
By JAY REEVES This Nov. 26, 2013 photo shows Jim Griffin, executive director of the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Ala., viewing a new exhibit titled “Shadow Gallery, The…
AT U OF ALA., LEADERS TREAD LIGHTLY ON SEGREGATION
By JAY REEVES In this Sept. 18, 2013, photo, University of Alabama President Judy Bonner, right, shakes hands with student Isaac Bell of Montgomery, Ala., following a march by faculty…
ALABAMA CHURCH MARKS 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BOMBING
By JAY REEVES Churchgoers file outside the church as a wreath is carried at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013. The congregation gathered outside…
HOLDER, RICE TO MARK ALABAMA BOMBING ANNIVERSARY
People surround “The Four Little Girls”, a sculpture memorial honoring Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley in Birmingham, Ala. Saturday Sept. 14, 2013. Tomorrow marks the…
CONGRESS HONORS BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBING VICTIMS
By ANDREW MIGA President and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Lawrence Pijeaux, front, lays on a table the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously awarded in honor of Addie Mae…