The murder of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, South Carolina, church by a self-proclaimed white supremacist — seen in online images holding a Confederate flag and gun — immediately ...
“All citizens have embraced the (new) flag, and I think it would be the ideal symbol to replace the Confederate picture ... Davis and George with more modern representations of Mississippi.
Berger’s spokesman confirmed to Task & Purpose that the commandant had sent a directive to his senior staff ordering all installations to get rid of symbols of the Confederate States of America.
A racist massacre at a Black South Carolina church in 2015 and George Floyd’s murder in 2020 intensified a reckoning over the role of Confederate symbols in American public life and government.
Lee, Stonewall Jackson, the Confederacy, or any of its symbols, and I have no emotional ... Moreover, some Confederate statues were erected specifically to antagonize black citizens during the ...
But in an international echo of a movement that has gripped the United States in recent years, Confederate symbols are now getting banned in Brazil, too. I am a geographer who analyzes the history ...
Some 250 protesters also argued with a handful of counter-protesters, some in Confederate flag T-shirts, media said. Symbols for the losing side of the American Civil War have become a major ...