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MEMPHIS (AP) — Relatives of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest are demanding $30 million from […]

Eight people were arrested Saturday following another protest over the toppling of a Confederate monument at the University of North Carolina.

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Protesters at North Carolina’s flagship university toppled a Confederate statue in the heart of campus […]

For more than 100 years, “Silent Sam,” a bronze statue representing a Confederate soldier, stood vigil on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Citing cherry-picked facts from the U.S. census, a Cobb County, Ga. woman tried her darnedest to argue that African-American slavery "wasn't so bad."

More than 150 years since the end of the Civil War, the United States has […]

Indigenous Australians Struggle To Tear Down Colonial Statues and Reclaim 65,000 Years of History. Although […]

The battle to remove confederate monuments reignited last month after a group of white supremacists […]

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A Missouri lawmaker is under fire after saying he hoped whoever is responsible for defacing […]

A Missouri state representative is in hot water after saying that he hoped whoever was responsible for vandalizing a Confederate statue was caught and hanged...

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Goodbye, Robert E. Lee; Hello W.E.B.: Hungarian Sculptor Wants to Honor Black Heroes Now That […]

In the wake of Charlottesville, President Donald Trump lobbed a provocative proposition: When it comes […]

Don’t want your Confederate monuments? No worries. A Florida city commissioner is willing to take […]

In the wake of the Charlottesville, Va., violence that left one person dead and 19 […]

On Thursday, President Trump doubled down on his comments defending the presence of Confederate effigies across the country.

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  With the recent unrest in Charlottesville, Va., spurring efforts to bring down Confederate monuments […]

Singer Solange has had it with the rampant racism that’s been taking over her social […]

The former Speaker of the House said that the efforts to remove Confederate memorials had taken a "destructive" turn.

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Two generations of Landrieus have been mayor of the city of New Orleans, many times […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — They were among the city’s oldest landmarks, as cemented to the […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hundreds of people turned out Saturday in New Orleans historic French Quarter to protest a statue of Andrew Jackson and Confederate monuments in the city...

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In the old Confederacy, traditions die hard.  And this certainly holds true for the symbol […]

Over a century and a half since the end of the Civil War, the spirit […]

In recent days, South Carolina and Alabama removed the “Stars and Bars” from their respective […]