Posts Tagged ‘Confederate monuments’
Pioneering Black educator’s statue to replace Confederate statue at the Capitol
By Kynala Phillips, NBC News The statue of Mary McLeod Bethune, a civil rights activist born to former slaves, will represent Florida in the National Statuary Hall Collection, starting in 2022. Civil rights activist and Bethune-Cookman University founder Mary McLeod Bethune will soon make history again. She will be the first Black person to represent…
Read MoreAlabama spends more than a half-million dollars a year on a Confederate memorial. Black historical sites struggle to keep their doors open.
By Emmanuel Felton, The Washington Post MOUNTAIN CREEK, Ala. — Down a country road, past a collection of ramshackle mobile homes, sits a 102-acre “shrine to the honor of Alabama’s citizens of the Confederacy.” The state’s Confederate Memorial Park is a sprawling complex, home to a small museum and two well-manicured cemeteries with neat rows…
Read MoreVirginia Military Institute Removes Monument to White Supremacy
A Confederate statue on the campus of one of Virginia’s oldest institutions is finally being removed after Black students spoke out about a campus culture that literally and figuratively worshipped the graven image of white supremacy.
Read MoreLawsuit to Prevent Confederate Statues From Being Removed Heads Back to Georgia Courts
You know, you would think betraying your country and getting bodied for it hundreds of years ago would be enough to stop people from sympathizing with the Confederacy, but no. Instead, we’re in the year 2020, where a man in Georgia feels the need to file a lawsuit preventing the removal of two ugly-ass Confederate statues.
Read More‘The worshipping of whiteness’: why racist symbols persist in America
Symbols drive the stock market and wall street. Businesses and government agencies are rethinking some racial stereotypes and are making changes. Rebranding without policy changes is mere “window dressing.”
Read MoreWisconsin still has Confederate monuments and symbols despite its history as a progressive state. Here’s what they are.
Despite Wisconsin’s allegiance to the Union during the Civil War, its loyalties to the Union and the end of slavery were not as clear-cut as Wisconsinites might like to think.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy
A nationwide movement to remove Confederate monuments, flags and other symbols from the public square, and to rename schools, parks, roads and other public works that pay homage to the Confederacy is underway.
Read MoreMoving Monuments and Considering Community
A Kehinde Wiley statue, Rumors of War, takes its place one mile from the Avenue of Monuments. This monument of a young Black man responds to the many statues of confederate white men usually seen lining the streets of Richmond, Virginia.
Read MoreWhose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy
This extensive report, including an executive summary, data, maps, and findings, describes the history and locations of monuments to the Confederacy around the country. It details the current controversy surrounding their removal.
Read MoreNew Orleans takes down Confederate monuments under cover of darkness
New Orleans removes four Confederate monuments from public spaces, despite death threats. Read about the debate surrounding their removal and listen to the mayor’s honest and touching speech explaining the importance of acknowledging and repairing our country’s flaws.
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