AXIOS (Russell Contreras) - From KKK halls to slave auction sites, communities rethink historic sites
A former Ku Klux Klan hall in Texas is becoming an arts center — one of several racist landmarks across the U.S. that communities are trying to turn from symbols of terror into sites of reparation . Why it matters: Years after the backlash against Confederate monuments, new fights have emerged over what to do with remaining physical reminders of particularly hurtful racism — tear them down, preserve them, reinterpret them or return them to communities harmed by them. Zoom in: In Fort Worth, Texas, advocates are turning the former KKK Klavern No. 101 auditorium into an arts and community center named after a Black lynching victim. - The building once stood as a threat to Black Americans, Latinos and Catholic and Jewish immigrants. -…