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E.D. White was a Confederate soldier and white supremacist. Is a change of heart enough?
The Courier via Yahoo News· 10 months agoE.D. White High’s website says the Thibodaux school’s roots “extend deep into the soil of Bayou...
How many Confederate memorials have been removed in Florida? How many are left?
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs fans filed into TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville at the end of November to watch the Jaguars...
How GOP lawmakers are pushing for Confederate monuments to be (legally) set in stone
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFor over a century, a life-size statue of a Confederate soldier has stood atop a towering monument...
Why the Neo-Nazis Picked Charlottesville in the First Place (It Wasn’t the Statue)
Slate via Yahoo News· 7 months agoZach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images In August of 2017, alt-right activists, Klansmen, and...
Yes, They’re Pro-Confederacy. But They’re Just the Nicest Ladies.
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe first thing I noticed about the monument to Southern women is that its Confederate flag flew...
Confederate statues obscured Lexington’s Black history. Now we can celebrate it.
Lexington Herald-Leader McClatchy Articles via AOL· 2 years agoI never intended to elevate myself to even the most meager levels of notoriety when this movement...
For 150 years, Black journalists have known what Confederate monuments really stood for
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAt the turn of the 20th century, Southern sympathizers started building monuments to Confederate...
While change underway, Nicholls State University's name a reminder of Confederate past
The Courier via Yahoo News· 10 months agoOf all the local institutions named for people with histories of racism and white supremacy, none...
When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 9 months agoDemonstrators hold Confederate flags near the monument for Confederacy President Jefferson Davis on...
Washington National Cathedral moves toward healing by removing Confederate symbols
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDuring a recent visit to Washington, D.C., I spent hours in the Washington National Cathedral, where...