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Jun 23 2020
News
Statues
“Portraits of four former House of Representatives speakers who served the Confederacy will be removed from the U.S. Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said [last] Thursday.” Reuters
“Protesters who took to the streets in Portland, Oregon for the 22nd consecutive night tore down a statue of George Washington that was erected in the 1920s, the Portland Police Bureau said [last] Friday
The Flip SideJun 05 2020
Opinion
Confederate Statues Defaced, America Disgraced
On Sunday evening, demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd defaced and toppled a statue of Confederate officer Charles Linn, which had stood in a public park in Birmingham, Alabama, since being installed in 2013 by a charity.
The destruction of this Confederate monument is but one in a sequence of such vandalisms that have swept the nation’s southern states in the past week
The American SpectatorJun 24 2020
Analysis
Trump thinks Andrew Jackson’s statue is a great monument — but to what?
Amid weeks of reckoning with America’s history of white supremacy, protesters have brought down monuments to the Confederacy and statues of Christopher Columbus. This week, demonstrators tried to topple the most well-known statue of Andrew Jackson, featured on horseback in military attire, in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square. President Trump called it an attack on a “great monument” and
Washington PostJun 24 2020
Opinion
Confederate statues are 'billboards for racism.' Let's take them down the right way.
Look around. The statues are falling.
Not on their own accord, of course. Statues of Confederate military figures are being toppled by protesters outraged by racial injustice and the death of George Floyd, while some states and cities are removing the monuments on their own.
In recent days, the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike was destroyed by demonstrators in Washington, D
USA TODAYAug 27 2020
News
Hurricane Laura downs controversial Confederate monument in Louisiana
A Confederate monument in Louisiana that local officials voted to keep earlier this month was damaged by Hurricane Laura as the storm battered the Gulf Coast Thursday morning, a report said.
The statue of a Confederate general that stood atop the South’s Defenders Monument on the grounds of a courthouse in Lake Charles was blown off during the storm, the Daily Advertiser reported.
New York Post (News)Aug 26 2019
Opinion
How the 1619 Project Rehabilitates the ‘King Cotton’ Thesis
The New York Times’ series on slavery relies on bad scholarship to make an argument with an inauspicious history.
‘I say that cotton is king, and that he waves his scepter not only over these 33 states, but over the island of Great Britain and over continental Europe!” So thundered Senator Louis T. Wigfall of Texas in December 1860, as an intended warning to those who doubted the
Guest Writer - RightJun 24 2022
News
America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
It may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America. That’s the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for labor unions and the chair of the Analyst Institute, a collaborative of progressive groups that studies elections. In a private newsletter that he writes for a small group of activists, Podhorzer recently laid out a detailed case for
The AtlanticDec 21 2020
News
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam: Robert E. Lee statue removed from U.S. Capitol
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Monday said the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has been removed from the U.S. Capitol.
The monument is set to be moved to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond after residing for 111 years in Washington.
The governor established the Commission for Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol earlier this year to look into the
Washington TimesSep 30 2019
Opinion
It’s Time to Unite Around the Constitution—Hey, GOP, That Means You
No Republican president has ever been so thoroughly at odds with the GOP’s “Party of Lincoln” history as Donald Trump. Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, led the Civil War fight to end the Confederate rebellion against the United States. Trump, who seems to be bent upon making himself the last Republican president, has been making excuses for the Confederacy since the first
The NationDec 21 2020
News
Virginia Removes Its Robert E. Lee Statue From U.S. Capitol
For more than 100 years, two statues representing Virginia have stood at the U.S. Capitol: one of George Washington and another of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
But early Monday, the Lee statue was removed from the National Statuary Hall's collection. It's expected to be replaced by a statue honoring civil rights activist Barbara Johns.
"This is a historic and long-overdue
NPR (Online News)