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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…
September 13, 2016
A Utah police officer and his family sat out the national anthem at a demolition derby because the spectators were
September 9, 2016
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to have the Confederate battle emblem on…
June 14, 2016
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The names of Confederate generals still adorn street signs in Charleston's public housing projects, and a…
May 25, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year after the brutal shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina,…
May 6, 2016
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A rapper draped herself in a Confederate battle flag and hung a noose around her neck…
April 29, 2016
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — The Beaufort County School District is investigating after a black woman complained that a…
March 25, 2016
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Backlash against a plan to remove prominent Confederate monuments in New Orleans has been tinged by…
March 21, 2016
Last month Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant announced a controversial decision to declare April to be Confederate Heritage Month.  He did this
March 18, 2016
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — An Atlanta-area high school is moving its prom to another site after parents raised concerns…
March 11, 2016
When Kezia M. Williams took a trip to Columbia, South Carolina, she didn't expect to find herself in the middle…
February 28, 2016
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of protesters who heard about a planned Ku Klux Klan rally were waiting by a…
February 25, 2016
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has declared April to be "Confederate Heritage Month."
February 17, 2016
The place: East Huntingdon Township, Pennsylvania. The problem: A Confederate flag display with a black baby doll hanging from a…
January 30, 2016
Georgia State Rep. Tommy Benton is on a mission to "preserve" the history of the South and the Confederacy, and…
January 3, 2016
During an interview promoting his latest film, The Hateful Eight, director Quentin Tarantino said that he considers the Confederate flag…
December 31, 2015
Please believe it: 2015 was chock-full of racism.
December 22, 2015
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A woman accused of placing a Confederate flag on a black co-worker's desk has pleaded guilty…
December 17, 2015
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans City Council has voted in favor of removing prominent monuments commemorating the pro-slavery…