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And Then There Were None … Statue of Robert E. Lee, Granddaddy of All Confederates, Comes Down in New Orleans

A crane removed the final homage to white supremacy in New Orleans on Friday when the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed, the last of four Confederate monuments to go down. The statue of the general stood atop Lee Circle, a vaunted roundabout in the Crescent City. Since 1884, Lee had stood…

By

Angela Helm

Published

May 20, 2017
Black Woman in New Orleans Is Protesting Removal of Jefferson Davis Statue

New Orleans is cleaning up the city by removing Confederate statues, but there’s one former resident who’s going to do everything she can to protest their removal. Even if that means proving that there’s always that “one” black person. Wearing a Confederate-flag T-shirt and waving a Confederate flag, Arlene Barnum, a native of New Orleans…

By

Yesha Callahan

Published

April 28, 2017