Posts Tagged Race Relations

New Poll: Race Relations Remain a Hot-Button Issue in America

Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on August 9, 2018

The Rotunda at the University of Virginia (Credit: terren in Virginia / Flickr)

Views about race relations remain incredibly complicated in America, even a year after the riot in Charlottesville. Michael Pope reports.

Charlottesville, Race Relations, University of Virginia

When a Ku Klux Klan Rally Taught Fear

Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on July 7, 2017

A Ku Klux Klan gathering in Muncie, Indiana in 1922. (Credit: William Arthur Swift / Ball State University)

Charlie Russell grew up on the west-side of Indianapolis in the 1950’s. In his all-black neighborhood the racial violence of the south that he saw on television felt far away. While he had experienced discrimination, he had never experienced fear. That changed, though, when he was in college in the blue-collar town of Muncie Indiana and the KKK held a rally.

Russell now lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This weekend a North Carolina-based chapter of the Ku Klux Klan plans to rally in Charlottesville.