The statue has come down and the Memphis park where Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is buried has been sold to a private organization.
The statue has come down and the Memphis park where Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is buried has been sold to a private organization.
For a pair of Mississippi lawmakers, the holy wars of the past aren’t past. They’re still present.
On each anniversary of Bloody Sunday, people from across the country and the world make a pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama, to listen to civil rights luminaries, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and recommit themselves to the fight for equal justice.
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.
Two weeks after the tragedy of Charlottesville, white nationalists rallying in Tennessee were outnumbered by anti-racists 50 to one.
Jason Kessler's fight on behalf of Confederate monuments and other white racial causes seems to land him in the middle of assault charges.
The following statement, regarding the Alabama attorney general suing the city of Birmingham, Alabama, today for obstructing a Confederate monument, is by Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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.
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.
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.