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June 23, 2020
President Donald Trump is threatening those who vandalize statues with jail time in response to Confederate landmarks being desecrated in…
Nancy Pelosi
June 18, 2020
Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she is ordering the removal from the Capitol of portraits honoring four previous House speakers who…
June 11, 2020
Protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy.
June 10, 2020
A statue of Christopher Columbus was beheaded and Confederate ones were vandalized as activists say they are symbols of racism.
June 10, 2020
The U.S. military is rethinking its traditional connection to Confederate Army symbols, mindful of their divisiveness during this time.
Stone Mountain
May 10, 2019
Both the town and the memorial associated with it conjures memories of racism, but officials want to shed that image…
Silent Sam AP thegrio.com
August 21, 2018
Activists have torn down a Conderate statue known as Silent Sam on the UNC campus.
March 21, 2018
The Ole Miss coach's statement is just another in a shamefully long and embarrassing line of white people in power…
Ole Miss thegrio.com
March 8, 2018
The University of Mississippi is acknowledging its historical connections to slave labor, slave owners and officials who set policies that…
Justin Fairfax thegrio.com
January 23, 2018
Under the cloud of Charlottesville, business as usual is anything but in Virginia
December 29, 2017
Republicans in South Carolina want to honor African-Americans who fought on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War…
September 7, 2017
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Some of the oldest and largest Confederate statues in the U.S. tower over Monument Avenue, a…
August 30, 2017
With a new school year dawning, education officials are grappling with whether to remove the names, images and statues of…
July 4, 2017
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — City commissioners in Florida have agreed to begin the process of changing the names of streets…
May 26, 2017
There are hundreds of Confederate statues left to tear down: It was good to see that New Orleans tore down
September 25, 2016
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hundreds of people turned out Saturday in New Orleans historic French Quarter to protest a statue…
September 21, 2016
What does it say about a country that still names its schools after those who kidnapped black people and chained…
February 25, 2016
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has declared April to be "Confederate Heritage Month."
February 9, 2016
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Growing up in the 1950s, William Bell had to enter Birmingham's segregated Lyric Theatre though a…
July 20, 2015
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A black Mississippi man who often dressed in Confederate regalia to support the state flag has…