A federal judge has sided with the Virginia NAACP in its lawsuit against a county school board’s reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools, saying the decision discriminated against ...

One of the inscriptions on North Carolina Confederate monument said "in appreciation of our faithful slaves." ...

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Research showing that Confederate monuments make Black courthouse visitors feel less welcome, safe and fairly treated helped lead to a settlement in a North Carolina lawsuit.

In the year since the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer, and the mass protests that followed, Confederate monuments have come down with astonishing speed. According to a February 2021 ...

The Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia is set to be removed this week, officials said. Arlington National Cemetery spokesperson Kerry Meeker told CNN in an email ...

Let’s do a mental exercise about Confederate monuments in public spaces: I’ll describe one that doesn’t exist, and you tell me whether you’d find it offensive if it did. It sits near a major city, on ...

More than 160 Confederate symbols came down last year after the killing of George Floyd prompted a nationwide reckoning with racism. That count comes from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s been a long time since I sat in an American history class, but what I remember ...

Just off Market Street Charlottesville, Va., the walking paths in a little park lead to the spot where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stood for almost a century. Today, it's just a patch ...

Did you know that the percentage of Black Americans serving in the military is greater than their percentage of the overall U.S. population? In 2016, Black people made up 12.6 percent of the U.S.

Virginia county must replace Confederate school names it restored in 2024, judge rules - The NAACP Virginia State Conference called the ruling ‘a decisive victory’ for students.