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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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Artist Kerry James Marshall’s National Cathedral windows honor the light of protest
1 year ago

Artist Kerry James Marshall’s National Cathedral windows honor the light of protest

LA Times  

Late in September, the Washington National Cathedral held a dedication ceremony for a quartet of new stained glass windows designed by painter Kerry James Marshall and fabricated by Andrew Goldkuhle, replacing ones that depicted Confederate generals Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee. These everyperson marchers could be in Anycity, U.S.A. Kerry James Marshall’s stained glass designs honor peaceful protest. …

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Charlottesville 2017: Unite the Right’s plans were bigger than the statue.
54 years, 11 months ago

Charlottesville 2017: Unite the Right’s plans were bigger than the statue.

Slate  

In August of 2017, alt-right activists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, claiming the town as their own, partly responding to the town’s battle over the fate of a statue of Robert E. Lee that occupied a central place in a park. Dahlia Lithwick: You argue that in a sense, Selma and Birmingham’s Civil Rights protests of the 1960s …

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Georgia students sue over blocked protest against rebel flag
2 years, 7 months ago

Georgia students sue over blocked protest against rebel flag

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Several Black students who were suspended for trying to protest Confederate flag displays at their school in Georgia have filed a federal lawsuit against their school district and its board members, accusing them of allowing an extensive pattern of racism including “overt bigotry and animosity by some white students and teachers against African American students.” The students, joined …

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Georgia school suspends Black students for planned protest against Confederate flag
3 years, 2 months ago

Georgia school suspends Black students for planned protest against Confederate flag

Salon  

Several Black students at the Coosa High School in Rome, Georgia say they've been suspended simply for planning a protest against the Confederate flag. Local news station CBS 46 reports that many students at the school were upset last week when a group of white students came to school brandishing the Confederate flag while hurling racial slurs. A recording obtained …

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Gen. Lee statue comes down in former Confederate capital
3 years, 3 months ago

Gen. Lee statue comes down in former Confederate capital

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Richmond for generations was taken down, cut into pieces and hauled away Wednesday, as the former capital of the Confederacy erased the last of the Civil War figures that once defined its most prominent thoroughfare. “It’s very difficult to imagine, certainly, even two years ago that the …

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1 Of America's Largest Remaining Monuments To Confederacy To Be Removed In Virginia
3 years, 3 months ago

1 Of America's Largest Remaining Monuments To Confederacy To Be Removed In Virginia

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING RICHMOND, Va. — Crews are set to remove one of the country’s largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy, a towering statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. Crews are set to remove one of the country’s largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy, a towering statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. In Richmond, a city …

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Students protest as Utah lawmakers resist changing ‘Dixie’
3 years, 10 months ago

Students protest as Utah lawmakers resist changing ‘Dixie’

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — At a university in southern Utah, the nationwide protests against racial injustice have lent new momentum to change a name that many consider offensive: Dixie State. The Dixie State name has vocal support among people in its home of St. George, about 300 miles south of Salt Lake City, and they’ve been putting pressure on lawmakers …

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Trump Calls For NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace To Apologize Over Noose 'Hoax'
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump Calls For NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace To Apologize Over Noose 'Hoax'

NPR  

Trump Calls For NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace To Apologize Over Noose 'Hoax' Enlarge this image toggle caption Darron Cummings/AP Darron Cummings/AP Updated at 9:23 p.m. ET President Trump followed up a pair of divisive speeches over the holiday weekend on Monday by castigating NASCAR for banning the Confederate flag and calling on its only Black driver to apologize for "a …

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July 4th: Is it worth celebrating America this year?
4 years, 5 months ago

July 4th: Is it worth celebrating America this year?

CNN  

CNN — On July 9, 1776, a rowdy group of American colonists banded together at a political rally in New York City and did something that today would be called “badass.” They had just been treated to a public reading of the Declaration of Independence, which Congress had officially adopted less than a week earlier. Brian Snyder/Reuters “They’re patriots,” says …

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Robert E. Lee statue becomes epicenter of protest movement
4 years, 5 months ago

Robert E. Lee statue becomes epicenter of protest movement

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — Just a little over a month ago, the area around Richmond’s iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was as quiet and sedate as the statue itself. The statue is located on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, a boulevard of stately homes that also features several other Confederate monuments targeted for removal. “You can’t be human and not …

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Noose Left In Black NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace's Garage Stall At Racetrack
4 years, 6 months ago

Noose Left In Black NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace's Garage Stall At Racetrack

NPR  

Noose Left In Black NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace's Garage Stall At Racetrack Enlarge this image toggle caption Steve Helber/AP Steve Helber/AP Updated at 11:45 a.m. ET A noose — among the most threatening and resonant images from America's long history of white racist violence — was left in the garage stall Sunday of NASCAR's only Black driver in the Cup …

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The Latest: Columbus statue taken down in Camden, New Jersey
4 years, 6 months ago

The Latest: Columbus statue taken down in Camden, New Jersey

Associated Press  

TOP OF THE HOUR: — Columbus statue taken down in Camden, New Jersey — Kentucky bans use of ‘no knock’ warrnts, names ordinance after Breonna Taylor — Georgia man facing upgraded charges for ramming his ATV into an Atlanta policeman during a protest. The city of Camden released a statement Thursday evening calling the statue in Farnham Park a “controversial …

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NASCAR bans Confederate flag from its races, venues
4 years, 6 months ago

NASCAR bans Confederate flag from its races, venues

Associated Press  

For more than 70 years, the Confederate flag was a common and complicated sight at NASCAR races. The issue was pushed to the forefront this week by Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s lone black driver and an Alabama native who called for the banishment of the Confederate flag and said there was “no place” for it in the sport. “The presence of …

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