Confederacy
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New Orleans Begins Removal of Confederate Monuments
Workers in New Orleans, under police guard, began Monday removing four monuments dedicated to the era of the Confederacy and…
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YOES: Challenging the Racist Legacy of Confederate Monuments
I spent part of Nov. 2 in Baltimore’s Druid Hill Park helping load a 500-pound, 12-foot-tall statue of a pregnant,…
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Little Rock Officials Weigh Renaming Confederate Boulevard
CLAUDIA LAUER, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Though only a short stretch of Little Rock’s Confederate Boulevard remains,…
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Protests Continue Over Confederate Flag Ban at High School
ALANNA DURKIN, Associated Press CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — Protests continued Friday over a western Virginia high school’s ban on Confederate…
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Yale Grapples With Ties to Slavery in Debate Over a College’s Name
NEW HAVEN (New York Times) — When Maya Jenkins was accepted to Yale, her family erupted in joy. Still, her mother…
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Texas Judge Clears Way for Removal of Jefferson Davis Statue
JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge on Thursday cleared the way for the University of Texas…
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The Pernicious Civil War Revisionism Poisoning American History Students
(Salon) – No living historian has done more to shape our understanding of the American Civil War era than Eric…
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An Answer for Confederate Apologists
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Someone identifying himself as Jimmy Oliver sent me an email objecting to a…
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The Confederacy’s ‘Heritage’ of Slavery
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The disclosure that Dylann Roof, the admitted killer of nine unarmed African Americans…
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Mitch Landrieu Calls for Removal of New Orleans’ Confederate Symbols
(New Orleans Advocate) – Mayor Mitch Landrieu advanced his call for the removal of four New Orleans Confederate and post-Civil War monuments…
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