Residents of Richmond, Virginia cheered as a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the nation’s largest Confederate monument, was taken down. NOW: Crowd chanting “hey hey hey, goodbye” as officials remove the Robert E. Lee Monument in Virginia —the country’s largest Confederate statue pic.twitter.com/PFswiZCwXM — philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 8, 2021 The statue had…
Two petitions are calling for a memorial to Chadwick Boseman to replace a Confederate statue in the late actor’s hometown. The effort has garnered thousands of signatures. One petition calls for a Confederate statue in Anderson, South Carolina to be replaced with a memorial to the Black Panther star and has garnered more than 6,000 signatures. “Mr….
Donald Trump thinks African Americans should learn U.S. history rather than campaign for the removal of Confederate monuments. The President has been vocal in his defense of statues depicting racist leaders. Trump spoke to Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade for a special on Sunday. Kilmeade asked the President about the controversial monuments to the Confederate leaders…
Many Americans have been compelled by the recent mass protests to seek a fuller understanding of United States history and particularly the African American experience in that history, up to and including ongoing racism, discrimination, and violence against people of color. Black bookstores in particular are being flooded with orders for literary works that portray…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has called for the removal of Confederate monuments from the National Statuary Hall collection at the U.S. Capitol. “The statues in the Capitol should embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to Missouri…
Stewart says “Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don’t matter,” but he’s wrong. Defending them is worse