Sep 17
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Over the summer, cities and states scrambled to respond to the protests that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s…
Aug 28
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Since 1915, a garish statue honoring Confederate soldiers stood tall on the grounds of Lake Charles’ courthouse. This…
Aug 25
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The destruction of a Confederate monument in Portsmouth, Virginia, in June has caused so much tension that prominent…
Aug 18
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Aug 13
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Today I learned that there are, literally, over a thousand Confederate symbols on public land all over America. In…
Aug 12
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If there is any upshot to the hellscape we currently live in, it’s that folks are steadily exposing their true…
Aug 11
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You know how I know America is inherently racist? There are multiple schools named after Confederate generals and…
Jul 29
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In Georgia, a monument honoring fallen Confederate soldiers was taken down late Tuesday night.
Jul 29
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On Tuesday night in Richmond, Va., a group of organizers projected a hologram of George Floyd over a monument to…
Jul 24
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A school district in Virginia has voted that a high school named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be…
Jul 23
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On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol.
Jul 22
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As the debate around Confederate iconography intensifies, the House of Representatives has approved a funding bill…
Jul 6
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It’s often said that if Black people took up arms and marched through the streets, gun laws would get passed with…
Jul 6
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On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave an iconic speech in Rochester, N.Y., in which he asked a question that is…
Jul 2
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Jun 23
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Apparently a lot of folks have decided that if government officials won’t act to remove any and all monuments…
Jun 22
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The fight to remove Confederate monuments has only intensified over the last month of nationwide protests. Now, it’s…
Jun 22
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The George Floyd protests against systemic racism have reignited an age-old debate about whether there is a place in…
Jun 20
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Protestors in the nation’s capital ended Juneteenth on an appropriate note yesterday by toppling the statue of a…
Jun 18
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For people who want so badly for black people to just forget about slavery, conservative white people sure seem…