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NJ Home's Confederate Halloween Display Draws Outrage
Adorned with multiple no trespassing signs, a New Jersey home boasts multiple Confederate flags in addition to costumed ghosts — one of which seems to resemble a haunting image of a Ku Klux Klan member in robes.
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Memphis Erases Confederate General From Its Public Spaces
Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s polarizing presence has hung over Memphis, Tennessee, since he moved there in 1852 with his family
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Robert E. Lee Memorial Reopens in Virginia With New Exhibits on Enslaved People
The Virginia mansion where Robert E. Lee once lived is open to the public again, after a $12 million rehabilitation and reinterpretation that includes an increased emphasis on more than 100 people who were enslaved there. The National Park Service opened Arlington House to the public on Tuesday for the first time since 2018. The mansion overlooking Arlington National Cemetery…
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Washington and Lee University to Keep Confederate's Name
Washington and Lee University’s trustees have voted against removing the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E
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Hurricane Laura Topples Confederate Statue After Vote to Keep It
After making landfall in Lake Charles, La., Hurricane Laura damaged a Confederate statue, just days after local parish officials had voted to keep it.
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House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues From Capitol
The House has approved a bill to remove statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders from the U.S. Capitol, as a reckoning over racial injustice continues following the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis.
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Old Times Not Forgotten: Mississippi Furls Rebel-Themed Flag
Mississippi has formally retired the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem.
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Mississippi Takes Step Toward Dropping Rebel Image From Flag
Mississippi lawmakers are close to erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the 126-year-old state flag.
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Country's Oldest City Moves to Relocate Confederate Memorial
Leaders of the country’s oldest city have decided to move a Confederate memorial that has been a fixture in its historic central plaza for 140 years.
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Portraits of Former Confederate Leaders Removed From Capitol
Portraits honoring four former House speakers who served in the Confederacy are gone from the U.S. Capitol
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4 Men Charged in Charlottesville Attacks on Counterprotesters
Four members of a militant white supremacist group from California were arrested on charges they traveled to Virginia last year to incite a riot and attack counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally that turned deadly, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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San Francisco Statue Some Call Racist Removed
Crews have removed a 19th century statue near San Francisco’s City Hall that some have said is racist and demeaning to indigenous people.
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Policía en la comunidad
Protesters in Durham, N.C. toppled a Confederate monument Monday night. The statue, called “The Confederate Soldiers Monument,” was dedicated in 1924. It was pulled down Monday and protesters stomped on it.
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Virginia School Renamed to Honor Obama
A Richmond, Virginia, school that honored a confederate general has been renamed Barack Obama Elementary.
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Poll: White Millennials Split on Whether Trump Is Racist
White millennials are divided on whether they think President Donald Trump is racist, an opinion held by overwhelming majorities of their minority counterparts, a new poll revealed Tuesday. And while all millennials agree that African-Americans experience the most racial discrimination, young whites are also split down almost the exact same lines on whether they think discrimination against whites is as...
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North Carolina School District Bans Confederate Symbols
North Carolina’s Durham Public Schools Board members unanimously passed changes into the student dress code Thursday evening, nearly two weeks after the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
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Charlottesville, Jusice Department to Host ‘Community Recovery' Town Hall
Charlottesville residents are getting a chance to talk with city officials about a white nationalist rally earlier this month that devolved into deadly violence. The city is hosting what it calls a “community recovery town hall” on Sunday, after it had been rescheduled from Thursday, in collaboration with the Community Relations Services of the Department of Justice. Officials will provide...
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‘Symbols of Modern White Supremacy': University of Texas Removes Confederate Statues
University of Texas President Greg Fenves has ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become “symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.” Fenves says statues of Lee, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan will be moved...
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Confederate Monument Toppled
Protesters in Durham, N.C. toppled a Confederate monument Monday night. The statue, called “The Confederate Soldiers Monument,” was dedicated in 1924. It was pulled down Monday and protesters stomped on it.
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In New Orleans, the Confederate Monuments Are Now All Gone
They were among the city’s oldest landmarks, as cemented to the landscape of New Orleans as the Superdome and St. Louis Cathedral: a stone obelisk heralding white supremacy and three statues of Confederate stalwarts....
But after decades standing sentinel over this Southern city, the Confederate monuments are gone, amid a controversy that at times hearkened back to the divisiveness of the...