Richmond, Va., has gotten rid of the cityâs only school named after a Confederate leader (sorta), and has renamed the building for the nationâs first black president.
Itâs never going to be a bad decision to rename something after renowned badass and âconductorâ of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman. And following that school of thought, a section of a Baltimore park that was once the location of some loser statues has been renamed after the iconic abolitionist.
The debate over Confederate monuments inspires one woman to find the descendants of people her memorialized ancestor enslaved.
The ongoing national debate over race and Confederate monuments reared its ugly head during this yearâs Mardi Gras. Some of the infamous beads thrown into the crowds reflected the image of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to protest the removal of his statue from New Orleansâ most prominent traffic circle, which hasâŚ
Two South Carolina politicians have proposed a commission to erect a monument honoring the legacy of black soldiers who fought for the South during the Civil War. The proposal is authored by a representative who has long been a vocal defender of the Confederate flag and another Republican lawmaker who said that theâŚ
For 113 years, a bronze statue of Nathan Bedford Forrestâa man who rose above his station thanks to the slave trade, a Confederate general who orchestrated the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow, and the Ku Klux Klanâs first grand wizardâloomed over downtown Memphis, Tenn.
If youâre gonna talk the talk, youâre gonna have to walk the walk. At least thatâs what the Montgomery County, N.C., decided after a group of local firefighters refused to remove a Confederate flag from fire station property.
Two South Carolina representatives hope to put the whole Confederate-monument controversy to restâby memorializing the enslaved black people forced to fight for the Confederacy.
When you try to be better about racism but decide youâre not really about that life: an American story.
The Robert E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, Va., is the latest building/memorial/what-have-you to toss the infamous Confederate general back to the past where he belongs, voting to change its name after an intense two-year debate.
Dear Statues,
Leave it to the donkey party to act an ass and see an opportunity dangled before it and stupidly squander time debating whether or not an obvious winning strategy is worth pursuing.
When will politicians, cops, educators and other government officials realize that nothing good ever comes from fighting about race on Facebook? Inevitably, the whole awful exchange gets a screenshot, and then thereâs a 48-hour news cycle of said bigot claiming, I donât have a racist bone in my body or I was justâŚ
Nothing says Good Ole Party like the threat of a lynching, and thatâs exactly what Republican Missouri Rep. Warren Love expressed what he hoped would happen after people were seen defacing a Confederate monument in his stateâs Springfield National Cemetery.
When Haiti unveiled Le NegrĂŠ Marron statue in 1967, it became a symbol for freedom of black people across the world. The sculpture is a reminder of the rebellion against the French that set the Haitians free.
The city of Charlottesville, Va., is planning to cover the statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas âStonewallâ Jackson in black fabric to represent the cityâs mourning of Heather Heyer.
Welp. One Texas man is taking his hatred of Confederate statues to the absolute next level, authorities say.
There are three questions for which black America has never received a satisfactory answer:
The internet can be a dark and enraging place sometimes, but every once in a while, there is a ray of light in this darkness: This time, that beautiful spark of greatness comes in the form of a petition to replace a Confederate statue with one of Missy Elliott.
