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A Confederate statue in North Carolina praises 'faithful slaves.' Some citizens want it gone
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHe said white elites dedicated the monuments to each other, honoring their fights for the...
Losing the Lost Cause: Virginia should reject Confederacy, honor true history
Southern Poverty Law Center· 5 days agoThe Shenandoah County School Board’s vote reverting the names of Honey Run Elementary School and...
Senator beaten as tempers flared over slavery in Kansas in 1856. Are we better today? | Opinion
Wichita Eagle via Yahoo News· 6 days agoSouth Carolina Rep. Preston Brooks bludgeoned Sen. Charles Sumner unconscious, and Southern voters...
Activists call to rename the Francis Scott Key Bridge because he owned slave people
NPR· 4 days ago"Not only did he free his slaves, but he became one of the leading advocates for abolishing slavery...
James Longstreet’s Lessons in Leadership
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLongstreet’s willingness to accept defeat and push the South forward after the Civil War points to the essential difference between two sorts of failed...
I’m an educator and grandson of Holocaust survivors, and I see public schools failing to give...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThere have been numerous efforts to limit students’ access to books and curricula about certain...
ACLU of Indiana Files Lawsuit to Block Law ‘Undermining’ Professors’ Free Speech
The 74 via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA federal lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges a contentious new Indiana law that seeks to push speech...
Decoration Day in Syracuse: The evolution of Memorial Day
The Post-Standard· 4 days agoInspired by a number of annual local ceremonies, including in Waterloo, New York,...
The Shenandoah County School Board’s Terrible History Lesson
Time Magazine· 7 days agoOn May 10, 2024, 161 years to the day after General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s last breath...
LETTERS: Lost compassion and empathy; should be driving a Tesla
Colorado Springs Gazette· 5 days agoAn article was written regarding Colorado Spring’s homelessness and the negative impacts this issue...