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D.C. High School Will Consider Banning Redskins Clothing The principal of Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. will discuss with the school's students a potential ban on Redskins clothing. “I do plan on having a discussion with my student council officers and representative to get their take on this idea,” Wilson High School principal Pete Cahall said, according to WJLA.com.

Teacher declares doll hanging from noose in Watchung is racist: WATCHUNG — The owner of a Halloween costume store here said a window display depicting a man hanging from a noose will be removed after a Scotch Plains woman complained, saying it was appalling and racist. Delores Jackson, a fifth-grade teacher at the Charles H. Skillman Elementary School in Plainfield, said the display she saw Sunday in the window at the Halloween Scene store in the Blue Star Shopping Center on Route 22 West depicted a stuffed doll resembling a black man, wearing a labor suit and hanging from a...

Sep 3, 2006 — A member of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held an umbrella over Wrightsville resident James Lewis on Saturday, keeping the steady drizzle from his tall pointed hood and long white robe with black accents. The robe's an old one. His other one has green stripes added to show his new status as Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Klan, a position he took two weeks ago. Lewis, a Klansman since he was 15, was one of three in white robes who led a group of about 26 Klan members and supporters...

Big Easy boss sez cleanup no worse than WTCRagin' Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans defended accusations that he's taking too long to clean up the Big Easy a year after Hurricane Katrina - by taking a cheap shot at New York's recovery from 9/11.During a tour of the decimated Ninth Ward in New Orleans, the outspoken, blunt and sometimes profane Nagin invoked Ground Zero when a TV reporter pointed out a street that still has flood-damaged cars and a house washed partially into it. "That's all right," Nagin told the correspondent in an interview that will air Sunday night...