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Jun 29 2021
News
House votes to sweep out Capitol statues deemed offensive
The House voted to remove the bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and several other statues associated with the Confederacy or racism.
Democrats have been determined to rid the building of statues memorializing long-dead dignitaries who held racist viewpoints, a goal realized in Tuesday's vote of 285-120. Sixty-seven Republicans voted with all Democrats present,
Washington ExaminerJul 08 2020
Analysis
Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History
In recent weeks President Trump has railed against tearing down statues across the country — and has been particularly dogged in his defense of Confederate monuments. But his argument that they are benign symbols of America’s past is misleading. An overwhelming majority of Confederate memorials weren’t erected in the years directly following the Civil War. Instead, most were put up decades
538 (ABC News)Jun 29 2021
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House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol
The House passed legislation on Tuesday that would remove artwork from the Capitol that honors people with legacies of defending slavery, including by serving the Confederacy.
The 285-120 vote was bipartisan, but it split Republicans. A minority of 67 Republicans joined with all Democrats in support, while 120 voted against it.
“We ought not to forget history. We must learn from
The HillMay 24 2022
News
Panel Recommends New Names for 9 Military Facilities Originally Named for Confederate Leaders
A panel on May 24 unveiled its recommended new names for military facilities that were named in commemoration of the Confederacy and its leaders.
Fort Benning in Georgia should be renamed Fort Moore after Lt. Gen Hal Moore and his wife Julia, the Naming Commission said.
Additionally, the following names were proposed:
—Change Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, to Fort Liberty
The Epoch TimesJun 16 2020
News
Virginia governor to propose Juneteenth as state holiday
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that he’s making Juneteenth — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. — an official holiday in a state that was once home to the capital of the Confederacy.
Juneteenth, which is also called Emancipation Day and Freedom Day, is celebrated annually on June 19. Texas first made it a state holiday in 1980. The
Associated PressJun 19 2021
Opinion
Juneteenth As A National Holiday Is Symbolism Without Progress
This week, President Biden signed into law the "Juneteenth National Independence Day."
It is honoring the work of Black Americans, including people such as 94-year-old Civil Rights Activist Opal Lee, who had long advocated for the celebration that started in Galveston to be made a federal holiday.
Juneteenth celebrates the date when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, on
NPR (Opinion)Dec 21 2020
News
Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol overnight.
The statue has stood with America's first president, George Washington, as the state of Virginia's contribution to the National Statuary Hall Collection at the Capitol for more than 100 years.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, announced on Monday the state will seek to have it
The HillJun 20 2020
News
How do we address racism in 'Gone With the Wind'?
As U.S. industries contend with a national reckoning on race, Hollywood has started to grapple with its past.
The popular film “Gone With the Wind” has landed at the center of the debate over how to handle cultural artifacts containing racist depictions. The 1939 Academy Award-winning film is an adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel about a love story between Scarlett O’Hara, a
Yahoo! The 360Feb 24 2016
News
Nearly 20 percent of Trump’s supporters disapprove of Lincoln freeing the slaves
The New York Times took a dive into whether Donald Trump's supporters were unusually racist — or, in the newspaper's delicate phrasing, "responsive to religious, social and racial intolerance." And they came up with a stunning statistic: Nearly one in five Trump supporters didn't approve of freeing slaves in the Confederacy.
VoxJul 11 2021
Opinion
How the White Press Wrote Off Black America
Newspapers that championed white supremacy throughout the pre-civil rights South paved the way for lynching by declaring African Americans nonpersons. They embraced the language once used at slave auctions by denying Black citizens the courtesy titles Mr. and Mrs. and referring to them in news stories as “the negro,” “the negress” or “the nigger.”
They depicted Black men as congenital
New York Times (Opinion)