New Orleans lawmakers are in the midst of considering whether to break with its Confederate past by removing longstanding monuments
Among the honorees were Misty Copeland, Caitlyn Jenner, the U.S women's soccer team, family members and survivors of the Charleston Massacre, Reese Witherspoon, Victoria Beckham, Elizabeth Holmes and Cecile Richards.
A 61-year-old Mississippi man was arrested and charged with detonating an explosive after he threw a bomb at a Walmart store because the chain stopped selling Confederate Flags.
A week after University of Mississippi student leaders voted overwhelmingly to remove the state flag from campus, it was taken down during a ceremony on Monday.
Maryland will begin to phase out the state’s Confederate flag license plates beginning this fall. Reuters reports that the Charleston AME church massacre in June was the catalyst behind the change, after pictures of shooter Dylann Roof posing with the flag surfaced online. U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis issued the order on Thursday, lifting a 1997 injunction at […]
Fifteen people have been indicted on gang charges after passing the home of an African-American family in suburban Atlanta, Georgia this summer in a caravan of cars that prominently displayed Confederate flags.
https://twitter.com/MegPace/status/646349650790891520 The NAACP chapter in Jefferson County, Ala. is arguing that a mural depicting slaves picking cotton while a White overseer watches should be removed from the county courthouse, Think Progress reports. The mural, made to represent the “Old South,” was installed at the entrance of the building in 1934; a time when Black people were […]
Scientists are saying this is the largest hominin fossil discovery like this in Africa.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday, Spike Lee will receive an honorary Academy Award for his work.
A Confederate flag supporter ran over a boy with his car, causing many to believe the beating the man got from witnesses was race-related.
