Daryl Davis believes the method he used to persuade many klansmen to defect from the hate group can help America to bridge its political divides.

The wife of a Ku Klux Klan leader who was found fatally shot next to a river in eastern Missouri has been jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder. An official at the St. Francois County Jail told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Monday that 44-year-old Malissa Ancona is in custody. Charges have not been filed.

A black man has single-handedly caused more than 200 white racists to leave the Ku Klux Klan simply by confronting their prejudice with friendship. Inspirational Daryl Davis, 58, a blues musician and author, has travelled all over the US since the early 1980s actively seeking out and befriending members of the openly racist organisation. The KKK is a white supremacy cult founded in 1865 organizing members to persecute people for the color of their skin or their religious beliefs.

In today’s racially charged environment, there’s a label that even the KKK disavows: white supremacy. By Jay Reeves.

No white hoods required. By Charles P. Pierce.

The KKK was once a money-making machine, with the Indiana Klan leader alone pulling in over $2.8 million annually. By Roseann Cima.

Investigation by Hope Not Hate finds police officers among members of Loyal White Knights, names of expelled ‘race traitors’ and links to violence. By Mark Townsend.

The Untold Story of the Eradication of the Original Ku Klux Klan. By Matthew Pearl.

Daryl Davis, the subject of the controversial documentary ‘Accidental Courtesy,’ opens up about why he’s spent thirty-plus years getting chummy with members of the Ku Klux Klan. For decades, blues musician Daryl Davis has been raising eyebrows with his unconventional hobby: befriending and converting bigoted members of the Ku Klux Klan, whose white hoods he symbolically collects along the way.

Five Ku Klux Klan members who were arrested following a vicious brawl in Anaheim were released because evidence shows they acted in self-defense, police said Sunday. Seven people who remained in custody were seen beating, stomping and attacking the Klansmen with wooden posts, Sgt. Daron Wyatt said.

Three people were stabbed and several arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said.

Ku Klux Klan members who want to adopt a highway in north Georgia have taken their constitutional rights case to the state’s top court. The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments Monday about whether the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan should be permitted to pick up trash as part of the state’s Adopt-A-Highway program. Over the next several months, the court will weigh Georgia’s claim for sovereign immunity...

“Fiddlin’ John” Carson’s darkest murder ballad. By Christopher C. King.

Making friends is no easy task for modern white nationalists. In an era of gay marriage and a black president, more than a half-century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law, separatists can’t exactly swan dive into conversations with strangers about the white-power cause. But Rachel Pendergraft — the national organizer for the Knights Party, a standard-bearer for the Ku Klux Klan — told The Washington Post that the KKK, for one...

According to a New York Times article published in June 1927, a man with the name and address of Donald Trump's father was arraigned after Klan members attacked cops in Queens, N.Y.