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More than 1,500 Confederate symbols stand in communities like Charlottesville with the potential to unleash more turmoil and bloodshed.
It's time to take the monuments down.
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Hundreds of white supremacists are planning to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, today to protest the city council’s decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from a city park.
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Counterdemonstrators greatly outnumbered the Ku Klux Klan at a weekend rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the focus was on the city’s planned removal of a large statute of Civil War Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 is not about preserving our state’s history, but about protecting Confederate monuments that celebrate white supremacy and a time in which an entire race was enslaved and oppressed.
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May 20th marked 156 years since the North Carolina state legislature voted to join other southern states in seceding from the United States.
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The last of four major Confederate monuments in New Orleans came down on Friday, the final step of a campaign launched in 2015 by Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
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State Rep. Karl Oliver should immediately resign from the Legislature and issue an apology.
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With follow-up Twitter-support from long-time KKK leader David Duke, white nationalist Richard Spencer led a Klan-like fiery torch rally over the weekend in Virginia, opposing the pending removal of a Confederate statue.
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Last weekend, a motley crew of far-right groups assembled at New Orleans’ Lee Circle to protest the city’s removal of Confederate monuments. Bearing all manner of insignias, from the Confederate Battle Flag, Klan logos, Civil War kepis, Norse runes, the flag of “Kekistan,” the Gadsden flag, to U.S. flags, all were prepared for a brawl.
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League of the South Members Among Those Attending NOLA Counter-Protests This Weekend
