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July 11, 2022
The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear arguments to return a statue of Confederate soldier John B. Castleman to its initial…
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April 30, 2022
Team Henry Enterprises has removed more than three dozen Confederate monuments in Virginia and other Southeastern states.
April 22, 2022
Project Say Something in Alabama filed a lawsuit contending officials are trying to limit protests against a confederate monument.
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.
January 28, 2022
The Southern Poverty Law Center's 'Whose Heritage?' project—which tracks the removal of Confederate memorials—is set for release next month.
December 30, 2021
The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia has agreed to house a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee…
October 23, 2021
The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center says it raised more than $500,000 in a bid for the Lee statue…
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October 17, 2021
"We can’t pinpoint exactly the cause and effect. But the association is clearly there,” said a research team member at…
July 18, 2021
Spectators cheered Saturday as a Confederate general statue was hoisted and removed from a pedestal where it stood for 99…
July 3, 2021
The judge quickly ruled that a conservative group seeking the ouster of state Sen. Louise Lucas chose the wrong venue…
June 30, 2021
The House voted to approve a bill that would remove from the Capitol a bust of Roger Taney, as well…
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June 28, 2021
The membership of two neo-Confederate groups have been revealed and among them are scholars, military veterans and politicians.
May 30, 2021
Camille Bennett, an Alabama activist, has experienced death threats for her campaign calling for the removal of a Confederate statue.
May 18, 2021
Alabama police have issued an arrest warrant for a man in connection with the theft of a Confederate monument that…
April 2, 2021
Virginia’s highest court ruled Thursday that the city of Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals.
March 27, 2021
Reacting to last year’s wave of damage to Confederate monuments amid protests, GOP state lawmakers move to protect public, private…
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January 30, 2021
A Confederate structure was taken down last year and in its place, officials now plan to erect a monument that…