DECATUR, Ga. — A controversial confederate monument has been officially replaced after a 12-foot bronze statue of late civil rights…
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For 150 years, Black journalists have known what confederate monuments really stood for
By Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania In October 2023, nearly seven years after the deadly Unite the Right white supremacist…
Confederate statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee melted down by Black history museum
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The statue of a Confederate army general, which was the center of the deadly protest in Charlottesville…
When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down
By Alexander N. Taylor, George Mason University Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a…
North Carolina mayor requests state of emergency declared over “domestic terror threats” after Confederate monument removed
The mayor of a North Carolina town — and residents — have reportedly been targeted with death threats and racial…
