The halls of higher education at the University of Texas will no longer be marked by monuments to a low point in American history.
The halls of higher education at the University of Texas will no longer be marked by monuments to a low point in American history.
Some see the monument as “the largest shrine to white supremacy in the history of the world.”
A federal judge in Texas has cleared the city’s decision to take down a Confederate monument from a city park.
A Confederate monument rally organized by a group called CSA II: The New Confederate States of America was met with a mass of counter protesters and fizzled early in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday.
Hatewatch has previously profiled neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) President Michael Hill, his Chief of Staff, Michael Tubbs, and various other affiliates and supporters of the organization, including Chief of Security/Intel John Mark “Tiny” Malone.
May 20th marked 156 years since the North Carolina state legislature voted to join other southern states in seceding from the United States.
League of the South Members Among Those Attending NOLA Counter-Protests This Weekend
Almost a month after Dylann Roof murdered nine parishioners at Charleston’s Mother Emmanuel AME church, a convoy of pickup trucks drove by a young African American child’s birthday party hurling racial epithets and pointing firearms. On February 27, 2017, several among the group of “flaggers” were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and violating a state gang act.
The public debate over the legacy of the Confederacy in the Deep South came to a boil recently when two organizations –– one an anti-racist group and the other a Confederate heritage group –– got in a permit battle to hold competing marches in Lexington, Va.
Now, more than ever, we must work together to protect the values that ensure a fair and inclusive future for all.