Ku Klux Klan

Rex Sinquefield Group Fights Teacher Tenure; Will His Ku Klux Klan Comment Pose Obstacle?

In Missouri, there's a renewed push to end teacher tenure, which supporters say would ensure that the best teachers stay in the classroom. But opponents argue that abolishing tenure amounts to an unfair attack on teachers, and it doesn't help that the initiative's backer, Rex Sinquefield, last year ... More >>

Ku Klux Klan Can Pass Out Handbills in Missouri, Court Rules in Free-Speech Case

In a victory for First Amendment supporters -- and white supremacists -- a federal judge ruled yesterday that a St. Francois County city cannot prohibit the Ku Klux Klan from distributing leaflets on city streets. The decision isn't all that surprising. The courts have ruled in favor of the Traditi ... More >>

Racism in 2013: Redneck Space Travelers, Meth Smokers and Other Dumbasses

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

MoDOT Approves "9/11-Truther" Group's Adopt-A-Highway Application

"9/11-Truthers" believe a lot of things that make most of us deeply uncomfortable. But at least we'll get a cleaner highway out of their latest publicity stunt. The Missouri Department of Transportation has reluctantly approved a local 9/11 Truth group's application to adopt a stretch of Olive Bou ... More >>

Wild Bill Young: The Country Artist Who Must be Seen to be Believed

In this week's music feature, Calvin Cox explains the unlikely rise of Wild Bill Young, whose country music career is approaching a tipping point. He's dealt with mismatched expectations based on his race since he started singing, but he told us he doesn't want that to be his defining characteristic ... More >>

5 Most Alarmist Fliers of Missouri KKK

Last week a federal judge made permanent an injunction prohibiting officials in Cape Girardeau from interfering with the flier campaign of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In his ruling, Judge John Ross sided with the white-supremacist group based out of Park Hills, Missour ... More >>

The Ten Black Pop Stars Who Should Go Country

[Editor's note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle, celebrating that city's favorite musical genre: mainstream country.] By Mike Seely With the nation's major-party political conventions drawing to a close recently with a rousing reelection appeal from the n ... More >>

In the Galleries - Odell Mitchell Jr. Retrospective CLOSES September 3 at the SLAM

Sinquefield Under Attack for Comment Tying Public Schools to KKK

​Educators and politicians are demanding that Rex Sinquefield apologize for a statement he made yesterday tying public schools to the Ku Klux Klan. Sinquefield, who has spent tens of millions of dollars trying to repeal income taxes in Missouri, was giving a lecture at Lindenwood University in sup ... More >>

KKK Fliers Found on MLK Day -- Or Is it Robert E. Lee Day?

Robert E. Lee's 1863 portrait. ​Residents in several neighborhoods in Sedalia, Missouri, found fliers promoting the Ku Klux Klan on Monday morning, which happened to be the observed holiday to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, who was born January 15, 1929.But three states - ... More >>

We All Scream For and About Ice Cream

Because CofFree Day at 7-Eleven isn't exciting enough, today's free mini waffle sundae day at Maggie Moo's (15801 Manchester Road, Ellisville; 699 F Gravois Bluffs Boulevard, Fenton; 8853 Ladue Road, Suite Q, Ladue)! They're giving away the sundaes to the first 200 customers from 3 to 6 p.m. It's ... More >>

Black Man Admits Sending Threatening Letters from KKK

Behind the mask, no one knows you're black. Unless...​A former resident of O'Fallon, Illinois, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in East St. Louis on charges that he mailed threatening letters to police and city officials claiming he was a member of the KKK. According to federal prosecutors ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Is the term "Mexican" becoming extinct?

Missouri Legislators Deploy "Rosa Parks Highway" Tactic Against Neo-Nazis

biography.comThe unveiling of the Rosa Parks Highway.​A couple of state reps from Springfield are trying to rename a stretch of highway in their district after a Jewish rabbi now that the roadway has been adopted by the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Movement.As the Springfield News-Leader repo ... More >>

The 2010 RFT News Challenge

Son of Avowed Wash. U. Homophobe Comes Out in Post-Dispatch

image viaIsaac Katz​Back in 2003, Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz published an essay on his departmental web page called "In Defense of Homophobia". In a stroke of what some might call poetic justice, Katz's 22-year-old son Isaac came out publicly yesterday in an essay th ... More >>

KKK-Recruiting Union Official Booted from Federally-Funded Job Site

An officer with a local union has been booted from a federally-funded work site -- for passing out KKK propaganda on the job.Recruiting for the KKK can get you fired.​The man, an officer with the Local 53 chapter of the Laborers International Union of North America, has not been named. But Adolphu ... More >>

KKK Propagandist Forced to Resign From Union Leadership

The union leader accused of passing out pro-KKK business cards on a St. Louis job site didn't just get booted from the job, as we reported this morning -- the union has just confirmed that they've also removed him from a leadership role.Pro-KKK literature cost one man his leadership position at a lo ... More >>

Union Leader Recruited for KKK on Job Site, NAACP Says

A board member for a local union has been distributing promotional material for the KKK on a St. Louis County job site, officials with the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP alleged this morning.One T-shirt featured on www.kkk.com​Adolphus Pruitt, the NAACP's vice chair for legal redress, tell ... More >>

Ass Clown of the Week: Alleged Pedophile Babysitter Timothy Broadway

Timothy Broadway​The votes are in and in overwhelming fashion the readers of Daily RFT have elected Timothy Broadway as Ass Clown of the Week. Broadway captured 64 percent of the vote after being accused last week of raping a 12-year-old girl he was supposed to be babysitting. Second place with 21 ... More >>

Who is Daily RFT's "Ass Clown of the Week" -- April 9- 16?

​It's that time again, time to vote for this week's Ass Clown. And the nominees...1. Dirk Robinson: The St. Louis man charged this week with operating a veritable department store -- full of $1-million worth of counterfeit goods -- out of his north St. Louis home. 2. Columbia City Officials: Who h ... More >>

Judge Agrees: KKK Has a Right to Cornhole, BBQ at Missouri Historic Site

Will there be rubber duckies at the Klan picnic? You bet!​A federal judge in St. Louis issued an emergency order yesterday allowing the Ku Klux Klan to picnic at the Fort Davidson State Historic Site in Iron County this Saturday. The group Traditional Knights of the KKK was denied a permit to use ... More >>

Saturday is "Shred Day" in St. Louis

Shred Day: Dwight Schrute approved.​Not going to the KKK picnic on Saturday? Don't worry there's still plenty of other things to do in and around St. Louis that day. Like, for instance, celebrating St. Louis annual Shred Day. What is Shred Day? Why it's only the best darn holiday of the season -- ... More >>

Ass Clowns of the Week: Pervert Priest James Grady and Emmitt "Hoggy" Gordon

​A priest who allegedly solicited sex with a 16-year-old and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography? Or...A gang-banger who fired a bullet that traveled three blocks and struck a two-year-old boy in the face as the child sat on his grandfather's lap?Hmm...tough call. So tough a call tha ... More >>

Who is Ass Clown of the Week? March 26 - April 2

A full moon always brings out the Ass Clowns.​Did you notice it was a full moon earlier this week? How else to explain the bumper crop of Ass Clowns making headlines over the past seven days? You know the rules, vote for the newsmaker whose actions or admissions this week you find to be the most d ... More >>

Fifteen Years For Cutting In Line At Wal-mart....Does Race Have a Place in Kennett Dispute?

A 24-year-old woman from Kennett, Missouri, is slated to go on trial tomorrow for alleged crimes stemming from a bizarre-o incident at Wal-mart more than two years ago. The Associated Press reports that Heather Ellis faces fifteen years behind bars for assaulting police officers and resisting a ... More >>

Hear the One About the Missouri Department of Transportation and the Nazis?

The New York Times had an interesting story this weekend about the Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) and its ongoing battle with racist groups that want to adopt highways. Last year the National Socialist Movement (the neo-Nazi group that rallied in St. Louis this past April) signed on t ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

The Tale of a One-Armed Machinist, the KKK and a St. Louis River House

I met a guy the other day who lives in a home on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in south St. Louis. The house has a rather interesting history that merits a retelling. Here it is -- as best as I can recall. The home was built in the 1950s by a one-armed man who owned a machine shop in north cit ... More >>

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Local KKK Chapter Calls Hallmark Greeting Cards "Sickening Beyond Belief"

In a move that's sure to cost Hallmark tens of dollars, members the Ku Klux Klan are asking white Americans to boycott all purchases from the greeting card company. A press release yesterday from the Belleville, Illinois, chapter of the KKK, states that Hallmark is "trying to corrupt the morality of ... More >>

Show Review: Royce da 5'9" at the Gramophone, Monday, September, 22

La Mascara Mexicana

Los Straightjackets reinterprets some American and Brit rock and soul and Common finds Forever.

Get these Mexicans out of the 'hood!

Week of October 26, 2006

Steel Pulse

Saturday, July 24; Gateway Arch Stage, St. Louis Riverfront

The Descendents

Cool to be You (Fat Wreck Chords)

Best Long-Running Movie

Monument to the Dream

Bona Fide

Joel and Ethan Coen's Brother hits a Homer

WHO DO YOU THINK DESERVES TO GET A LUMP OF COAL IN HIS OR HER STOCKING THIS YEAR?

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IN DEFENSE OF WHITE-TRASH CLEANUP

KKK is runt of the litter, but the state must not censor its garbage

YO, GRAND DRAGON, YOU MISSED THAT CANDY WRAPPER

MoDOT gives the Ku Klux Klan the cold shoulder, but the appeal goes on

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