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North Carolina residents sue to have Confederate monument to ‘faithful slaves’ removed
KOAM· 7 days agoThe monument in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, features a Confederate soldier on top of a pedestal...
Group sues NC county over Confederate monument thanking ‘faithful slaves’
The Hill via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNorth Carolina residents sued their county in federal court to remove a Confederate monument that...
A Confederate statue in North Carolina praises 'faithful slaves.' Some citizens want it gone
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"This civic monument is appallingly explicit in its pro-slavery message...in general to attempts to...
10 Surprising Facts About Memorial Day
Time via AOL· 2 days agoInstead, Confederate Memorial Day, commemorating the deaths of Confederate soldiers in the U.S., began around the same time. These celebrations ...
What is Memorial Day? The true meaning of why we celebrate the federal holiday
USA Today· 6 days agoFor many Americans, Memorial Day is more than a long weekend and an unofficial start to the summer...
Kali Holloway, Independent Media Institute
The Raw Story· 1 day agoConfederate monuments are just innocent statues; that taking them down erases history; that we cannot retroactively apply today’s ideas about the morality of slavery to the ...
Why we celebrate Memorial Day
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThis history of Memorial Day was taken from the National Cemetery Administration of the Veterans Affairs, which cares for, preserves and promotes the...
30 Memorial Day Trivia Questions and Answers to Quiz Your Family
Parade via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAnswer: 20,000 Question: One of the very first ceremonies to honor fallen Union Civil War soldiers...
The 44 Percent: Florida’s Emancipation Day + Biden’s billion-dollar promise + A Black pioneer in...
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 7 days agoFor example, on June 19, 1865, about 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The ...
The Overlooked Black History Of Memorial Day | iHeart
iHeartRadio· 6 days agoWhen the last Monday of May comes around, Americans fire up the grill, welcome the upcoming summer...