A black woman took over a paper that said the KKK should 'ride again.' Now she's stepping down.
Source: USA Today
A black woman took over a paper that said the KKK should 'ride again.' Now she's stepping down.
N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY Published 1:04 p.m. ET March 17, 2019 | Updated 1:59 p.m. ET March 17, 2019
The African-American woman who took control of an Alabama newspaper that once called for the Ku Klux Klan to "ride again" has stepped down because of continuing interference from the papers previous leader.
Elecia Dexter, who replaced Goodloe Sutton as publisher and editor of the Democrat-Reporter in February, told The New York Times on Friday that she was stepping down to maintain her integrity and well-being.
I would have liked it to turn out a different way, but it didnt, she told the newspaper. This is a hard one because its sad so much good could have come out of this.
Sutton, 80, sparked outrage around the country when he penned a Feb. 14 editorial calling for "the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again" to clean up Washington, D.C., from "Democrats in the Republican Party and Democrats (who) are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama."
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