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Donald Trump, theGrio.com
October 16, 2025
Trump has long been a supporter of Confederate statues and has criticized the removal and renaming of statues in honor…
KKK plaque
December 23, 2022
A commission created by Congress recommended that multiple historical reminders tied to Confederate officers during the Civil War be removed…
December 21, 2022
The former Confederate capital has secured an $11 million grant to build an interpretive center honoring the memory of enslaved…
December 12, 2022
Work to relocate Richmond’s final city-owned Confederate monument should start this week after a judge refused a request to delay…
John Lewis thegrio.com
November 5, 2022
The confederate Obelisk Monument toppled in June 2020 after a judge ruled it a threat to public safety, as previously…
October 27, 2022
A judge has sided with Richmond officials in a lawsuit over whether the Virginia city can remove a final Confederate monument and…
September 14, 2022
An independent commission is recommending that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be dismantled and taken down.
August 27, 2022
Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator, has spread Donald Trump’s lies about widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
June 24, 2022
The Black members of North Carolina’s Realtors association are having second thoughts about keeping its headquarters in a historic mansion.
statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee theGrio.com
April 27, 2022
On a day that many state and local government offices were closed for Confederate Memorial Day in Mississippi, protesters on
April 8, 2022
A new billboard in Owensboro, Kentucky — a town with only 4,000 Black residents out of 60,000 — calls for…
April 7, 2022
Many universities in the state had already been removing Confederacy symbols, but the 2020 protests helped accelerate the process.
April 1, 2022
Tami Sawyer, a Memphis county commissioner, maintained that George Johnson harassed her at her home and also threatened her.
March 22, 2022
Harriet Tubman, Gen. Colin Powell and Gen. Roscoe Robinson, Jr. are among the legendary names under consideration.
Confederate statue thegrio.com
February 7, 2022
City officials in Virginia have tasked the leaders of their local Black History Museum & Cultural Center with deciding the…
November 28, 2021
Alabama’s capital city faces penalty for renaming Jeff Davis Avenue after Fred D. Gray, a lawyer known for his work…
October 26, 2021
Civil War history casts a long shadow in Virginia, the birthplace of Confederate generals, scene of their surrender and now…
Robert E. Lee statue thegrio.com
October 17, 2021
"We can’t pinpoint exactly the cause and effect. But the association is clearly there,” said a research team member at…
September 7, 2021
A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, will be taken down on Wednesday as a…
July 10, 2021
Along with the statue of Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, the removal comes after years of contention, community anguish and litigation.