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Roof, a white supremacist, posed with the flag in photos before killing nine worshippers in a historically Black church.
White race hustlers made the North forget a history it should be proud of.
Davis Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi is named after Confederate General Jefferson Davis. Now, students, parents and teachers have voted to change the re-name their school after Barack Obama. But there’s a connection between the two men that will surprise you.
The next stop on HuffPost’s “Listen To America” bus tour was Oxford, Mississippi, where we met Ole Miss senior Jake Thrasher, a cartoonist for the student newspaper. When he drew cartoons mocking the Confederate flag, the death threats began.
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Canadians have no excuses — not even bad ones.
The family of Heather Heyer mourn the world’s loss and call for action after her death in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The family of Heather Heyer mourn the world’s loss and call for action after her death in Charlottesville, Virginia.
As confederate statues are torn down throughout the South, conservatives often hail General Robert E. Lee as one of history’s greats. They claim he hated slavery and worked to heal America after the Civil War. But the General Lee myth couldn’t be further from the truth.
The violence they inflict and the fear they instill must not deter us from ensuring shrines to slavers and their ideological kin are removed.
"America is created by immigrants."