For more than 100 years, āSilent Sam,ā a bronze statue representing a Confederate soldier, stood vigil on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Stephen F. Austin, known also as the āfather of Texasā is often credited with carving out the early outlines of Texas, so perhaps it is apt that the capital of the Lone Star state is named after him.
Before white supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed nine parishioners in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the church was knownĀ foremost as being the oldest AME church in the South.
A woman continued her crusade to keep the name of a Confederate General on a Georgia park by informing her county commision that erasing the rebel soldierās name is the same thing Islamic State terrorists did in the Middle East.
To see the ways in which a country views itself, and its history, you need look no further than its monuments and memorials. These civic markers act as modes of remembrance, imploring onlookers to remember great historical feats and figures (as the Lincoln Memorial does), or to reflect on a complicated past (as theā¦
Richmond, Va., has gotten rid of the cityās only school named after a Confederate leader (sorta), and has renamed the building for the nationās first black president.
Itās never going to be a bad decision to rename something after renowned badass and āconductorā 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 yearās 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 Orleansā most prominent traffic circle, which hasā¦
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 theā¦
For 113 years, a bronze statue of Nathan Bedford Forrestāa 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 Klanās first grand wizardāloomed over downtown Memphis, Tenn.
If youāre gonna talk the talk, youāre gonna have to walk the walk. At least thatās 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 restāby memorializing the enslaved black people forced to fight for the Confederacy.
When you try to be better about racism but decide youāre 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 thereās a 48-hour news cycle of said bigot claiming, I donāt have a racist bone in my body or I was justā¦
Nothing says Good Ole Party like the threat of a lynching, and thatās exactly what Republican Missouri Rep. Warren Love expressed what he hoped would happen after people were seen defacing a Confederate monument in his stateās Springfield National Cemetery.
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