Despite city council members not yet authorizing the move, statues of Confederate leaders are being torn down Wednesday afternoon in the former capital of the Confederacy.
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(CN) — Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed a bill officially retiring the Confederate symbol that has been sewed
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Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.
Read moreSpectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into applause Saturday as lawmakers took a big step toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.
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NASCAR went to Talladega Superspeedway on heightened alert after Bubba Wallace, its only black driver, took an active role in a push for racial equality.
Read moreThe majority of people who spoke during a city council meeting in Fort Bragg, California, Monday favored keeping the name of the town despite its connection to a blundering Confederate general.
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The removal of a Confederate monument from a Florida town square did not violate the First Amendment rights of Southern heritage advocates, an 11th Circuit panel ruled Monday.
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One day before the nation marks 155 years since the end of slavery, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered the removal of portraits that hang in the halls of the Capitol commemorating four leaders of the Confederacy.
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After announcing a 130-year-old monument to a Confederate general in Richmond “belongs to everyone,” a Virginia judge extended an injunction indefinitely blocking the governor’s effort to remove it.
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A man was shot Monday night as protesters in Albuquerque tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the Albuquerque Museum.
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It’s been a busy week for statues in Houston. One day after a vandal painted a statue of Christopher Columbus red, Mayor Sylvester Turner said two Confederate statues will be moved, one to an African American museum.
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President Trump on Wednesday said his administration will “not even consider” changing the name of any of the 10 Army bases named for Confederate Army officers. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday that he was open to discussion of such changes.
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Protesters tore down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue on Wednesday night.
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For more than 70 years, the Confederate flag was a familiar sight at NASCAR races. Through the civil rights era right on through the season opener at Daytona in February, the flag dotted infield campsites and was waved in grandstands by fans young and old.
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A circuit court judge in Richmond, Virginia, Monday night issued a temporary injunction blocking the removal of a Civil War monument just as George Floyd protests began to wind down in the former capital of the Confederacy.
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After nearly a week of protests over the death of George Floyd, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced a plan Thursday morning to remove a massive statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue.
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Alabama’s Attorney General sued the City of Birmingham on Tuesday, demanding that it pay a fine of $25,000 for tearing down a 115-year-old obelisk dedicated to Confederate soldiers.
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A legal battle over the removal of a Confederate monument from a central Florida town square raged on Thursday in the 11th Circuit.
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A three-judge Fifth Circuit panel heard arguments Tuesday in a case centered on a city’s decision not to allow the Louisiana branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to wave Confederate flags in a 2015 Christmas parade.
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A measure to remove Civil War monuments in Virginia passed its first hurdle Monday morning, while a related effort by a rural Republican lawmaker shook up another committee meeting.
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