Removal of Confederate Monuments and Memorials
The bill, which also requires the approval of the Senate and President Trump, calls for the removal of statues depicting Confederate leaders such as Robert E. Lee.
An essay by W.E.B. Du Bois resurfaced amid new calls to remove Confederate monuments.
The Tennessee-born pop superstar wants the nation to stop celebrating “men who proudly owned and abused Black people.”
Someone needs a map.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The statue was ripped from its base on the 168th anniversary of one of Douglass' most famous speeches condemning slavery.
Trump’s “negligence and lack of care for the American people is contemptible,” says the California congresswoman, who lost her older sister to the coronavirus.
The president is threatening 10-year prison sentences for anyone who vandalizes a monument. He has destroyed four himself, including one honoring Native American cultural heritage.
Shannon Lanier believes that monuments to the third president should be kept out of public spaces.
The House speaker ordered them taken down to mark Juneteenth.
Harry Sanders' remarks followed him voting against removing a Confederate monument from outside a Lowndes County courthouse.