confederate monuments
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Durham, NC, Activists Stand in Solidarity, Crowds Gather to Turn Themselves In for Toppling Confederate Statue
On Monday evening during a rally against white supremacy, demonstrators in Durham, N.C., toppled a Confederate statue that had been standing in front of the old courthouse in the city’s downtown area. On Tuesday morning, Takiyah Thompson, the black woman who tied the noose around the statue’s neck so it could be pulled down, was…
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Wait! Calif. Had Confederates, Too?
I had no idea that there were Confederate monuments in the state of California, so color me surprised when I found out that one of them was located in my beloved Hollywood at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. No need to get upset, though; after intense pressure from the public, the monument was removed early Wednesday…
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Baltimore Wastes No Time, Tears Down Confederate Monuments 1 Day After Vote to Remove Them
Baltimore took quick action after showing its hand, removing Confederate statues across the city in the early-morning hours of Wednesday, just one day after voting on the issue. A lot of areas could take notes from Baltimore: No sitting around twiddling thumbs, waiting on God knows what. The city voted for the loser trophies to…
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Ga. Judge Suspended After Comparing ‘the Nut Cases Tearing Down’ Confederate Monuments to ‘ISIS’
A Georgia judge was temporarily kicked off the bench after he compared anti-racist and anti-Confederate protesters to the Islamic State group, often referred to as ISIS, in comments on Facebook over the weekend. Gwinnett County Judge James “Jim” Hinkle started the controversy Saturday after he called anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Va., “snowflakes” who had “no…
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Should Confederate Symbols Be Banned in the US?
Symbols of the Confederacy have been the subject of two very different events over the last few days. In Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue from a public park, and their “protest” turned into a bloody riot, with one woman being killed and countless others being…
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Black Woman Arrested in Connection With Confederate Statue Being Taken Down at Protest in Durham, NC
A black woman in Durham, N.C., was arrested Tuesday in connection with the toppling of a Confederate monument outside the Durham County courthouse Monday evening, and the Durham County Sheriff’s Office is executing search warrants, with more arrests expected to come. Takiyah Thompson, who, witnesses told The Root, was the activist who climbed a ladder…
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White Protesters—Yes, White People—Take Down a Confederate Monument in Durham, NC
A group of protesters in Durham, N.C., toppled a Confederate monument in front of a courthouse in the city’s downtown area Monday evening, and the entire act was caught on video and posted to Twitter. Don’t worry; none of them are dead or arrested yet because they were mostly white. The video, posted by Twitter…
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Lexington, Ky., Mayor Says Confederate Statues Are Coming Down After Charlottesville, Va., Tragedy
It usually takes a tragedy for there to be any substantive change around race in this country, and perhaps the death of Heather Heyer is the latest in that vein. On Saturday the mayor of Lexington, Ky., said that he is going to remove two Confederate monuments from his city’s former courthouse in light of…
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Fla. Petition Calls for Confederate Monument to Be Replaced by Statue of Beloved Manatee, Because Why Not?
Anything is better than a Confederate monument, so I can’t even be mad that one grieving Florida community is petitioning for said monument to be replaced by a statue of Snooty, a beloved manatee who died over the weekend in a tank accident at the South Florida Museum aquarium that has been described as “tragic.”…
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KKK’s Pathetic March in Charlottesville, Va., Met With Throngs of Protesters
Scores of protesters shouted down homegrown terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan as the reviled racists marched in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of Confederate statues from the city. USA Today reports that more than 1,000 multiracial demonstrators flooded this city’s downtown area Saturday to shout down about 50 Klan members, some of whom…