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Gaming platform Twitch is under fire after allowing users to create charity campaigns for controversial nonprofits like Autism Speaks and United Daughters of the Confederacy
"The scale of this program may mean that people within our community may not agree with or support …
Geoff Weiss
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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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Pro-Confederates celebrating 'Confederate Memorial Day' clashed with protestors at Georgia's Stone Mountain
"We have been fighting this war since 1861. We will be victorious," a Sons of Confederate Veterans …
Katie Balevic
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One of America's most prestigious universities paid $1.2 million to the United Daughters of the Confederacy to change a building's name
"Ever since I joined the Vanderbilt community in 1987, the residence hall bearing the inscription C…
Abby Jackson
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A Black man convicted of assault was given a retrial because the jury deliberated his case in a room decorated with Confederate signs
The jury deliberated Tim Gilbert's case in a room maintained by a Confederate heritage group. His l…
Sophia Ankel
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The Black origins of the first Memorial Day that were almost erased from history
On May 1, 1865, newly-freed African Americans who fought in the Civil War decorated soldiers' grave…
DeArbea Walker
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Two people accused of stealing a Confederate monument worth $500,000 from an Alabama cemetery were arrested in New Orleans, police say
The Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair was taken from a cemetery Selma, Alabama cemetery in late March.
Taylor Ardrey
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History buffs, gun enthusiasts, and family history aficionados return to Gettysburg
After a hiatus, Civil War reenactors were back for the 159th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysbur…
Alan Chin
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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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Last remnants of controversial UNC Confederate statue removed following resignation of school's chancellor
The university sent a statement early Tuesday confirming the work to remove the massive pedestal wa…
Associated Press,Ellen Cranle…
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Every Confederate statue must come down - not because of what they are, because of why they are
Most of the Confederate monuments in the United States were commissioned and erected during times o…
Linette Lopez
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New Mexico Republicans to pay 'special tribute' to militia founded by neo-Confederate, alongside Cowboys for Trump leader who said Black athletes should 'go back to Africa'
"It's deeply troubling that the local GOP would openly endorse an event honoring a paramilitary gro…
Charles Davis
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One man's 21-year protest to take down a Confederate monument - and force his Texas town to face its racist legacy
One man had been protesting a Confederate monument in his Texas town since the 1990s. In 2020, it w…
Lisa Bubert
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The Story Of 21 Confederate Soldiers Who Terrorized A Small Vermont Town 150 Years Ago
"Bennett Young was actually encouraged or ordered - if that's the word you want to use - to enlist …