Elecia R. Dexter told The New York Times on Friday that she stepped down because of continuing interference from the newspaper’s owner who had published the KKK editorial. ( The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File / " Mickey Welsh )“I would have liked it to turn out a different way, but it didn’t,” Dexter, 46, told the newspaper. She said she hoped her appointment would let the community know “this is everybody’s paper.” But Dexter told the Times that Sutton, who had retained ownership of the paper, had continually interfered in operations. The paper dates to 1879 and its editorials are consistently conservative and often critical of Democrats. The use of “Democrat” in its name reflects back to the period when nearly all white conservatives in the South were Democrats.

Source: thestar March 16, 2019 23:37 UTC