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Nearly 90% of House Republicans voted to restore a Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery
Last year, the memorial was removed from Arlington Cemetery as part of a push to rethink military i…
John L. Dorman
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House Republicans urge Pentagon to block removal of a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery
A group of more than 40 Republican lawmakers want to stop the Pentagon from removing a controversia…
Nathan Rennolds
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A new bill in Florida would allow citizens to sue for damage to or removal of Confederate statues
The bill does not explicitly mention Confederate statues and is meant to protect all historical mon…
Hannah Getahun
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How Trump's presidency became a roller-coaster ride for many of America's top CEOs
Donald Trump's relationships with many business leaders disintegrated in the aftermath of the 2017 …
John L. Dorman
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Trump issues statement against Richmond tearing down statue of General Robert E. Lee, calls him a great 'unifying force'
"If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended …
Vanessa Gu
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The largest Confederate statue in the US was removed and the crowd cheered, 'hey, hey, hey, goodbye'
Virginia's Democratic governor ordered the statue of Robert E. Lee to be removed more than a year a…
Kimberly Leonard
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GOP Rep. Matt Rosendale says the efforts to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol are 'animated' by critical race theory 'concepts'
Rosendale, who voted against the formation of a Juneteenth federal holiday, described the removal o…
John L. Dorman
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A Trump-ally with a history of antisemitic remarks and attacks on LGBTQ+ Americans could be North Carolina's first Black governor
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's history of antisemitic comments and other derogatory remarks would loom ov…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue removed from the US Capitol
The Confederate statue was removed as part of a provision in the recent defense spending bill, whic…
Jake Lahut
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Trump campaign claims the president will protect Brazil's famous Christ the Redeemer statue from vandalism and destruction
Under a photo of the iconic Rio de Janeiro statue, the Trump campaign ad said "WE WILL PROTECT THIS…
Eliza Relman
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Trump's embrace of the Confederate flag shows us all who he thinks owns America
Trump makes his assumptions about who is entitled to America based on race, not the rule of law. Th…
Linette Lopez
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An Arlington Cemetery memorial that depicts a 'nostalgic' version of the Confederacy will be removed imminently over GOP objections
Descendants of the statue's sculptor, a Confederate soldier, have said the monument was designed to…
Katie Balevic
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Anti-racism protesters who campaign to take down statues want to 'overthrow the American Revolution,' says Trump in Mount Rushmore speech
Black Lives Matter protests have revived long-running debates about statues around the US of figure…
Sinéad Baker
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'Our society is evolving': What historians and activists are saying about the movement to remove statues
Statues of Confederate leaders and other controversial figures, like slaveholders and colonists, ha…
Mark Abadi,Kevin Reilly,Katie…
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2 Confederate statues in Charlottesville will be removed 4 years after a violent white supremacist rally
Charlottesville announced on Friday that it will remove two statues of Confederate army generals ne…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Hurricane Laura knocked down a Confederate 'Defender's Monument' in Louisiana, weeks after local officials voted to keep it
Weeks after officials voted to keep a Confederate monument outside the Calcasieu Parish courthouse …
Susie Neilson
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Confederate artifacts were discovered inside of an 1887 box buried under a now-removed Robert E. Lee statue. Again.
Conservators revealed coins, bullets, books, and other items in the unveiling of the box, according…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Georgia removed 2 Confederate statues in 1 week as cities continue to reckon with racist pasts
Confederate statues were removed from Georgia's city of Dalton and Gwinnett County nearly 9 months …
Bre'Anna Grant
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Christopher Columbus statue in Rhode Island that was removed after protests in 2020 quietly finds a new home. 'It's American history,' the mayor said.
A Christopher Columbus statue in Rhode Island that was vandalized during the 2020 racial justice pr…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Newly resurfaced video shows Marjorie Taylor Greene saying she opposed removing statues of Hitler and Satan so she could teach people 'what they did'
The 2020 video shows Greene saying that to preserve lessons of history, she'd defend statues of peo…