Editing Howell, Michigan (section)

===21st century===
Activities associated with the [[Ku Klux Klan]] persisted into the 2000s, with events such as a public auction of Klan items scheduled for [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]'s birthday in January 2005,<ref>{{Cite news |title = Auctioning Memories in a Town Haunted by the Klan |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/23/us/auctioning-memories-in-a-town-haunted-by-the-klan.html |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |url-access=registration |date = 2005-05-23|access-date = 2016-01-05|issn = 0362-4331|first = Jeremy W.|last = Peters}}</ref> the 2010 suspension of a teacher who removed students for wearing a [[Confederate flag]] and making [[anti-gay slur]]s,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Michigan teacher suspended over anti-gay punishment - USATODAY.com|url = http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-11-16-michigan-teacher-suspended-gay_N.htm|website = usatoday30.usatoday.com|access-date = 2016-01-05}}</ref> and students' racist tweets toward a racially mixed team in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Molly |date=March 15, 2014 |title=Shocking racist tweets follow high school basketball win by all-white team |url=http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2014/03/members_of_howell_high_school.html |access-date=2016-01-05 |website=MLive}}</ref>
[[File:P20211005AS-1308 (51760515132).jpg|thumb|President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his Build Back Better agenda, Tuesday, October 5, 2021, at the Operating Engineers Training Facility in Howell, Michigan.]]
On October 5, 2021, President [[Joe Biden]] visited Howell for a speech to build support for his [[Build Back Better Plan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=President Joe Biden visits Howell |url=https://www.livingstondaily.com/picture-gallery/news/2021/10/05/president-joe-biden-visits-howell/6007241001/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=Livingston Daily Press & Argus |language=en-US}}</ref>

On July 21, 2024, about a dozen masked white supremacists marched through downtown Howell, chanting "[[Heil Hitler]]" and carrying signs with messages such as "[[White Lives Matter]]" and "End the War on White Children". They began their demonstration on the lawn of the Livingston County courthouse, where, in 1994, members of the community symbolically scrubbed the steps following a Klan rally. Several miles east of Howell at the Latson Road/I-96 overpass in [[Genoa Township, Michigan]], pictures posted to a community Facebook group showed demonstrators hanging Klan and [[Nazism|Nazi]] flags over the side of the overpass. One of the photos showed them with a [[Donald Trump]] flag, while the ''Livingston Post'' uploaded a video made by a passerby in which one of the protestors is heard saying, "We love Hitler. We love Trump."<ref name="King2024">{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Jon |title='We love Hitler. We love Trump.': White supremacists march through Howell • Group hung Nazi and KKK banners on highway overpass |url=https://michiganadvance.com/2024/07/22/we-love-hitler-we-love-trump-white-supremacists-march-through-howell/ |work=Michigan Advance |date=22 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722185003/https://michiganadvance.com/2024/07/22/we-love-hitler-we-love-trump-white-supremacists-march-through-howell/ |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=17 August 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> On July 28, 2024, one week after the white supremacist march, at an anti-white supremacist counterprotest in downtown Howell, residents cleansed the sidewalk to symbolically wash away the racism.<ref name="King2024 a">{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Jon |title=Residents symbolically cleanse Howell after white supremacist march • 'This isn't how it's going to work around here anymore' |url=https://michiganadvance.com/2024/07/29/residents-symbolically-cleanse-howell-after-white-supremacist-march/ |access-date=17 August 2024 |work=Michigan Advance |date=29 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729190211/https://michiganadvance.com/2024/07/29/residents-symbolically-cleanse-howell-after-white-supremacist-march/ |archive-date=29 July 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> On August 20, 2024, [[Donald Trump]] visited Howell for a campaign speech.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Powers |first=Sara |date=2024-08-21 |title=Trump visits Michigan, campaigning on law and order, often speaking out against VP Harris |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-sheriff-trump-visit-howell-livingston-county/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |work=CBS Detroit |language=en-US}}</ref>