Features and Stories
More than聽1,500 Confederate聽symbols stand in communities like Charlottesville聽with聽the potential to unleash more聽turmoil and bloodshed.
It's time to take the monuments down.
Showing 164 Results
Features and Stories
Hundreds of white supremacists are planning to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, today to protest the city council鈥檚 decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from a city park.
Hatewatch
Counterdemonstrators聽greatly outnumbered the Ku Klux Klan at a weekend rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the focus was on the city鈥檚 planned removal of a large statute of Civil War Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Features and Stories
The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 is not about preserving our state鈥檚 history, but about protecting Confederate monuments that celebrate white supremacy and a time in which an entire race was enslaved and oppressed.聽
Hatewatch
May 20th marked 156 years since the North Carolina state legislature voted to join other southern states in seceding from the United States.聽
Features and Stories
The last of four major Confederate monuments in New Orleans came down on Friday, the final step of a campaign launched in 2015 by Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
Features and Stories
State Rep. Karl Oliver should immediately resign from the Legislature and issue an apology.聽
Hatewatch
With follow-up Twitter-support from long-time KKK leader聽David Duke, white nationalist Richard Spencer led a Klan-like fiery torch rally over the weekend in Virginia, opposing the pending removal of a Confederate statue.
Hatewatch
Last weekend, a motley crew of far-right groups assembled at New Orleans鈥� Lee Circle to protest the city鈥檚 removal of Confederate monuments. Bearing all manner of insignias, from the Confederate Battle Flag, Klan logos, Civil War kepis, Norse runes, the flag of 鈥淜ekistan,鈥� the Gadsden flag, to U.S. flags, all were prepared for a brawl.聽
Hatewatch
League of the South Members Among Those Attending NOLA Counter-Protests This Weekend
