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Confederate Statues In Virginia Potentially Headed To Black History Museum

"The arrangement would enable the community to take a deliberate approach in its reckoning with such divisive symbols."

By

Murjani Rawls

Published

January 1, 2022
Criminal Justice, Legal

Tennessee Black Man Gets a New Trial for Confederate Relics in Jury Room

Tennessee appeals court grants Tim Gilbert a new trial after jury met in a room with Confederate symbols

By

Noah A. McGee

Published

December 6, 2021
News

Urine Trouble: The Great Confederate Doo-Doo Chair Caper Concludes With No Charges

Prosecutors dropped charges against a trio accused of a multi-state heist that involved a Confederate monument, feces and Assata Shakur.

By

Michael Harriot

Published

October 20, 2021
Opinion, Some Thoughts

I Do Not Love America

As Theodore DeReese Pendergrass once said: 'It's so good loving a country when your country loves you back.' I'll let you know when it happens.

By

Michael Harriot

Published

July 30, 2021
Culture, History

We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense

White people love critical race theories. While they generally oppose Critical Race Theory, the academic movement started by Black scholars, they have historically embraced the uncapitalized version of race theory. However, because so many see whiteness as a default, they don’t understand that their entire education has already been racialized. The fact that most people…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

May 6, 2021
News

‘White Lies Matter’ Group Steals Confederate Monument, Threatens to Turn It Into Toilet if Ransom Demands Aren’t Met

White Lies Matter is a group that claimed responsibility for the disappearance of a Confederate monument in Selma, Ala., that was dedicated to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The group published a ransom letter in which it demanded that the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., hang a banner that features…

By

Zack Linly

Published

April 7, 2021
Entertainment, Television

Exclusive Clip: The Largest Armed Black Militia in the U.S. Uphold Their 2nd Amendment Rights in Season 2 Launch of Showtime's VICE

As Black folks, we are constantly given sobering reminders that we can’t actually depend on a national organization designed (in theory) to serve and protect us when that very organization is founded on white supremacy and is consistently terrorizing us to this very day. Nah, we just have to protect our damn selves. Showtime’s VICE…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

March 5, 2021
Entertainment, Television

Q Is Smart, Q Is Kind, Q Is Important: A Response to Tucker Carlson's Allegation That QAnon Doesn't Exist

Dear Mr. Carlson, Between my morning briefing on the status of the Democratic Party’s sex trafficking and my afternoon insurrection workout (mostly just police-beating exercises with a flagpole), I was informed by one of my most loyal parishioners (who may or may not represent Georgia’s 14th Congressional District) that you have been spreading lies and…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

February 25, 2021
Tennessee Lawmakers Punish City of Memphis for Removing Confederate Statues

You think you know petty, but do you know Tennessee Legislature petty? Tennessee state lawmakers are still big mad about the removal of a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a Confederate general best known for his brutal massacre of black Union soldiers and for being the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard—from a Memphis public park.…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

April 19, 2018
‘They’ve Chose a Real Good Color’: Owner of Defaced Confederate Eyesore Will Keep the Pink

To call it the ugliest Confederate statue in America seems a bit redundant, but the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest on Interstate 65 in Tennessee undoubtedly wins that distinction. The deranged interpretation of Forrest, a Confederate general, human trafficker and leader of the Ku Klux Klan, has been an eyesore in Tennessee for nearly 20…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

December 29, 2017