A Tennessee man has been awarded a new trial after an appeals court ruled that the room where the jury for his trial met led to a biased and unfair judgment against him because it was filled with Confederate memorabilia. Tim Stelloh of NBC News reported that “a Black man’s…
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City of Montgomery, Alabama Faces $25,000 State Fine for Changing Street Named After a Confederate Leader
Despite a state law designed to “protect” longstanding Confederate monuments and memorials, the city of Montgomery, Alabama, has decided that it would rather incur a fine than continue going on with a city street named after President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, Jefferson Davis. Kim Chandler of…
Archived: Confederate President's Name to be Replaced by Barack Obama's at Mississippi School
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…