KRDO

The Redneck Shop was a hub for the KKK. Years after the store’s closure, a Southern city is reckoning with this history

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. A grassroots organization is forcing a South Carolina city to reckon ...
WSPA

Transforming former ‘Redneck Shop’ into multicultural center one step closer as marquee shines new hope into building

LAURENS, S.C. (WSPA) – A beacon of light and hope is now radiating from a place that was once filled with darkness. Transforming the former Redneck Shop has been years in the making, but the man ...
Post and Courier

'Megyn Kelly Today' picks up story of Redneck Shop in Laurens, SC

The Redneck Shop in downtown Laurens no longer exists, but its legacy lives on in the small Upstate town, in the attitudes of some of its residents, in persistent racial and social conflict and in the ...
The State

$380K raised to change former KKK, neo-Nazi meeting place in SC into diversity center

Rev. David Kennedy stands in front of the closed Redneck Shop Friday in Laurens. Kennedy hopes to transform the space to benefit the community. The Redneck Shop once sold KKK robes and swastikas and ...
The Grio

Ex-South Carolina KKK museum to become a diversity center

A group with a mission to #RehabHate has launched a project to take a former Ku Klux Klan museum in South Carolina and convert it into a diversity center. The Echo Project, based in the small town of ...
Post and Courier

The Redneck Shop and the preacher: In Laurens, a long saga of racial conflict continues

LAURENS — The Rev. David Kennedy is not sure what he will do with the old theater building that his church has owned since 1997, but at least now he can start to think about it. Maybe it will become a ...