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A Confederate monument in Pittsboro, N.C., has been removed after it stood for 112 years outside of the Chatham County courthouse. About 50 people who both supported and opposed the removal gathered as the monument — a bronze statue of a soldier on a marble pedestal — was taken down…
St. Louis, Missouri police sergeant Heather Taylor did not hesitate to answer “yes” when CBS News reporter Jeff Pegues asked her if she believed there were white supremacists on the police force. Taylor’s answer comes after a damning exposé by the Plain View Project, a database of thousands of racist,…
A man was caught on camera in a profanity-filled rant against a couple protesting in front of a Confederate monument in Orange, Texas. The Confederate Memorial of the Wind is a nearly completed memorial, where the Sons of Confederate Veterans group are planning to add 32 flags to represent Texas…
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Monday night attributed the Civil War to the “lack of ability to compromise” and described Confederate General Robert E. Lee “an honorable man.” Speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle, Kelly called it “very dangerous” to remove monuments and…
The majority Black school district in Jackson, Miss., is renaming one of its schools, which is currently named after a Confederate president, after the nation’s first Black president. Former President Barack Obama’s name will now grace what was formerly known as the Davis Magnet International Baccalaureate Elementary School. The school…
I saw the president’s press conference live yesterday because I had a premonition that he was going to snap back from what he was apparently forced to read from a teleprompter on Monday. And he did, to a degree that I didn’t anticipate. President Trump said it plain and clear:…
Following the highly critical response to HBO’s upcoming series “Confederate,” a new project from Amazon, “Black America,” was announced this week. “Black America” will center around a time where three Southern states Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have seceded from the Union. However, they have formed their own nation for freed…
As the hit television series “Game of Thrones” nears its end, creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are putting plans in motion for their next HBO creation entitled, “Confederate,” which has already triggered criticism from potential viewers. The television hitmakers are slated to executive produce a new high-concept, drama whichcenters…
One year after public outcry forced the removal of the Confederate flag from state grounds and public institutions following the killing of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., by a Confederate flag-waving gunman, there is still refusal by some to let go of the divisive symbol. The state of Mississippi…
The Ku Klux Klan “made a lot of people straighten up,” Georgia State Rep. Tommy Benton (R-Jefferson) said last week in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Further, the Klan “was not so much a racist thing but a vigilante thing to keep law and order,” according to Benton. Benton,…