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How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory
6 days, 1 hour ago

How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

Raw Story  

By Jordan Brasher, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography, Macalester College There were no antebellum hoop skirts at the site of Brazil’s annual “Festa Confederada,” or Confederate Festival, in 2024. Following his private tour of the group’s museum, Eduardo Bolsonaro accused leftist critics of the Confederate Festival of “rewriting memory.” City officials passed the law banning Confederate symbols from public events …

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'Rudy Giuliani and Paul Manafort?' Trump shocks with pledge to 'build monuments' to heroes
2 weeks ago

'Rudy Giuliani and Paul Manafort?' Trump shocks with pledge to 'build monuments' to heroes

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's latest out-of-nowhere promise for his second term as president raised eyebrows and prompted laughter. DJT" It's not clear what prompted the comment, but lawmakers from both parties vowed to fight back if he carried through on his campaign pledge to restore Confederate monuments, including the names of military bases, and social media users seemed to interpret his Truth …

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Lawmakers on both sides vow to stop Trump from changing base names back to Confederate leaders
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Lawmakers on both sides vow to stop Trump from changing base names back to Confederate leaders

The Independent  

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A Mississippi town moves a Confederate monument that became a shrouded eyesore
3 months, 1 week ago

A Mississippi town moves a Confederate monument that became a shrouded eyesore

Associated Press  

— A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure that was tightly wrapped in tarps the past four years, symbolizing the community’s enduring division over how to commemorate the past. “I’m glad to see it move to a different location,” said Robin Whitfield, an artist with a studio …

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Crowd on hand for unveiling of John Lewis statue at spot where Confederate monument once stood
4 months ago

Crowd on hand for unveiling of John Lewis statue at spot where Confederate monument once stood

The Independent  

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John Lewis Statue Replaces More Than 100-Year-Old Confederate Monument
4 months, 1 week ago

John Lewis Statue Replaces More Than 100-Year-Old Confederate Monument

Huff Post  

A large bronze statue of the late civil rights leader and politician Congressman John Lewis is installed where a monument to the Confederacy was brought down in 2020, in the wake of the death of George Floyd, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Decatur, Ga. via Associated Press DECATUR, Ga. — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon …

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Atlanta man drives three hours to pull down Confederate flag flying over South Carolina highway
5 months, 1 week ago

Atlanta man drives three hours to pull down Confederate flag flying over South Carolina highway

The Independent  

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Medal of Honor: Two Union soldiers posthumously receive awards for carrying out daring mission behind Confederate lines
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Medal of Honor: Two Union soldiers posthumously receive awards for carrying out daring mission behind Confederate lines

CNN  

CNN — Two Union soldiers from the American Civil War were posthumously awarded with the Medal of Honor by President Joe Biden on Wednesday, more than 160 years after being executed for their part in a daring mission against the Confederacy. “Private Philip G. Shadrach and Private George D. Wilson will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for their gallantry …

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Editorial: Juneteenth isn’t a holiday just for Black people. Everyone should celebrate freedom
6 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Juneteenth isn’t a holiday just for Black people. Everyone should celebrate freedom

LA Times  

Juneteenth is no more a holiday just for Black people than the Fourth of July is a holiday just for white people. 3 telling the people of the westernmost Confederate state that “all slaves are free.” Although the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect in 1863, it couldn’t be implemented until the Civil War ended and Confederate states surrendered. California’s lawmakers …

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Kennedy condemns the removal of Confederate monuments
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Kennedy condemns the removal of Confederate monuments

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has condemned the removal of Confederate statues, saying he had a “visceral reaction against” the destruction of monuments honoring southern leaders from the Civil War. Robert E. Lee, the top Confederate general, had “extraordinary qualities of leadership” that deserve to be celebrated, Kennedy said Friday in an interview for the Timcast …

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Youngkin vetoes bills on skill games, contraception and Confederate heritage tax breaks
7 months, 1 week ago

Youngkin vetoes bills on skill games, contraception and Confederate heritage tax breaks

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin took action on a final batch of bills from the year’s regular legislative session Friday, signing seven but vetoing 48, including closely watched measures that would have ended a tax break for a Confederate heritage organization and allowed small businesses to host skill games, which are similar to slot machines. And that is …

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In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools
7 months, 2 weeks ago

In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools

LA Times  

A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school four years after the names were removed amid nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racial injustice. On Friday, school board members who voted to restore the Confederate names said the previous board ignored popular sentiment. Elections in …

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Man who attacked police after storming US Capitol with Confederate flag gets over 2 years in prison
8 months ago

Man who attacked police after storming US Capitol with Confederate flag gets over 2 years in prison

The Independent  

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Editorial: Mississippi has heroes who fought for democracy. Why is it marking Confederate Heritage Month?
8 months ago

Editorial: Mississippi has heroes who fought for democracy. Why is it marking Confederate Heritage Month?

LA Times  

Mississippi voters approved the magnolia state flag in 2020 to replace a Confederate-themed flag state lawmakers retired earlier that year as part of the national reckoning over racial injustice. It is the state where Emmett Till was lynched for supposedly offending a white woman, Medgar Evers was assassinated for trying to end segregation, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner …

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Confederate sentiment in Southern California ran deep
8 months, 1 week ago

Confederate sentiment in Southern California ran deep

LA Times  

A photograph published in The Times in 1925 shows Confederate veterans and others at Hollywood Forever Cemetery for the unveiling of a monument to fallen soldiers of the Confederacy. At this famous “last supper” were Hancock’s friends and fellow officers — the Southerners Albert Sidney Johnston, Lewis Armistead, Richard Garnett and George Pickett, who had resigned their Union commissions. A …

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North Carolina appeals court upholds ruling that kept Confederate monument in place
9 months ago

North Carolina appeals court upholds ruling that kept Confederate monument in place

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina appeals court ruled Tuesday that local leaders who refused calls to remove a Confederate monument from outside a county courthouse acted in a constitutional manner and kept in place the statue at its longtime location in accordance with state law. The three-judge panel unanimously upheld a trial court judge’s decision to side with Alamance …

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How Mellon chief Elizabeth Alexander (and $500 million) changed the nature of the monuments we revere
9 months, 1 week ago

How Mellon chief Elizabeth Alexander (and $500 million) changed the nature of the monuments we revere

LA Times  

You could say Elizabeth Alexander was raised among monuments. “They chart future value by what they revere.” Alexander’s work even appears in a monument. “We have been separated from our grandfather for more than 150 years,” said Jim Pepper Henry, vice chair of the Kaw Nation, upon the occasion, “and we look forward to being reacquainted.” Alexander says the project …

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The movement to ban the LGBTQ Pride flag from schools in Tennessee and other state
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The movement to ban the LGBTQ Pride flag from schools in Tennessee and other state

CNN  

CNN — State lawmakers in Tennessee could soon pass a bill that would limit the types of flags that can be displayed in public schools, sparking outcry from LGBTQ advocates who say the measure is an attempt to ban the Pride flag and curtail free speech. The new bill designates several types of flags that can be displayed, including the …

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United Daughters of the Confederacy would lose Virginia tax breaks, if Youngkin signs off
9 months, 4 weeks ago

United Daughters of the Confederacy would lose Virginia tax breaks, if Youngkin signs off

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy — the Richmond-based women’s group that helped erect many of the country’s Confederate monuments — is on its way to Republican Virginia Gov. The United Daughters of the Confederacy for over a century has “spread the lie” of the Lost Cause — an ideology …

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The shameful failure of yesterday’s SCOTUS 14th Amendment arguments
10 months, 2 weeks ago

The shameful failure of yesterday’s SCOTUS 14th Amendment arguments

Raw Story  

The single most astonishing thing about yesterday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court was the almost complete lack of historical context in those arguments about an insurrectionist staying on the ballot. And yet that is exactly what provoked Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, Michigan’s Senator Jacob Howard, and New York’s Senator Roscoe Conkling to write and push through Congress the 14th …

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LeVar Burton discovers he’s descended from Confederate soldier: ‘There’s some conflict roiling inside of me’
11 months, 1 week ago

LeVar Burton discovers he’s descended from Confederate soldier: ‘There’s some conflict roiling inside of me’

LA Times  

LeVar Burton learned his family tree includes a Confederate soldier, but says this could be his entry point to communicate with white America. On the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” host Henry Louis Gates Jr. explained to Burton that the show uses “every tool available,” including a genealogist who combed through paper trails stretching back hundreds of years, and DNA …

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Opinion: Trump’s ‘lost cause,’ a kind of gangster cult, won’t go away
11 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Trump’s ‘lost cause,’ a kind of gangster cult, won’t go away

LA Times  

A supporter of Donald Trump holds a Confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after the crowd breached the building as Congress was proceeding with the electoral vote certification of the 2020 presidential election. And then, of course, there was the American South after the Civil War, when the narrative of the Confederate “lost cause” yielded a …

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Sunny Hostin Tells Nikki Haley She Can ‘Kiss My Grits’ For Bad Civil War Response
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Sunny Hostin Tells Nikki Haley She Can ‘Kiss My Grits’ For Bad Civil War Response

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Sunny Hostin did not hold back while taking a swing at Nikki Haley for her recent comments — or lack thereof — about the Civil War. “The View” co-host slammed the Republican presidential candidate during Tuesday’s episode for failing to mention slavery when a voter last month at a New Hampshire town hall asked Haley what had …

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Arlington National Cemetery is set to uproot Confederate Statue as Biden administration continues push to remove Civil War monuments
1 year ago

Arlington National Cemetery is set to uproot Confederate Statue as Biden administration continues push to remove Civil War monuments

Daily Mail  

A Confederate reconciliation memorial is set to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery, ignoring a recent demand from over 40 Republican congressmen to stop the Pentagon from following through. Safety fencing has been installed around the memorial, and officials anticipate completing the removal by December 22, the Arlington National Cemetery said in an email. A Confederate reconciliation memorial is set …

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