robert e. lee
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Bronze Confederate Monument That Sparked Deadly Charlottesville Rally Removed on Saturday
The decision to take down statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson was years in the making.
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On Juneteenth: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Explores the Origin of an American Holiday
Gordon-Reed's book of essays put a personal lens on the day commemorating the emancipation of Texas' enslaved population on June 19, 1865.
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Charlottesville City Council Votes to Finally Remove 2 Confederate Statues From Local Parks
Who knew it would only take 4 years and a whole race riot?
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Masked Man Pulls Out Gun During Zoom Lecture About Racism Within 'Eyes of Texas' Song
In recent months, there has been growing controversy surrounding the kinda, sorta, totally racist school song of the University of Texas. A student-led Zoom lecture at the University of Texas at Austin was interrupted when a masked man began loading a gun on camera. NBC News reports that Alberto Martinez, a history professor who believes…
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Family Member of Robert E. Lee Joins Fight to Have Confederate Statue Removed
That we even have to debate whether a statue of Robert E. Lee should exist tells us how backwards many people in America are. Of course, four years of Donald Trump and his racism certainly didn’t help. If people are willing to travel to Washington, D.C., to take down the government, they certainly aren’t going…
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White Woman Loses Job for Telling Black Woman She’s ‘Not the Right Color’
Welcome back to another installment of “You About to Lose Your Job: 2021 Edition!” Today’s story of avoidable unemployment takes us to Virginia, where a white woman was caught on camera telling her neighbor she was “not the right color.” You can probably guess what happened next by the headline. According to Insider, the incident…
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‘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…
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Virginia Supreme Court Rules That Charlottesville Can Remove a Pair of Confederate Statues
Considering the level of violence and chaos white supremacists brought to Charlottesville, Va., nearly four years ago, it’s not terribly surprising that the city isn’t exactly gung-ho about preserving its Confederate monuments. The city can now remove two statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson after the Virginia Supreme Court overturned a…