Councilman: Community ready for discussion about Confederate statues
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) – The Governor wants to give power back to the local leaders to debate keeping Confederate statues on public land. Those on the local level want the power back as well. We...
View ArticleMan charged with pepper-spraying North Carolina Confederate re-enactors
NEWTON, N.C. (AP) – Police say a man pepper-sprayed Confederate re-enactors in North Carolina during a reunion parade. News outlets quote police as saying that 56-year-old Karl Smith of Morganton has...
View ArticleHeated controversy over future of Wilmington Confederate statues
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Should they stay or should they go? Across the state, controversy over confederate statues continues. One Wilmington woman wants them gone and even started a petition. There...
View ArticleESPN broadcaster Robert Lee taken off UVA game due to name
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — ESPN broadcaster Robert Lee will not work Virginia’s season opener because of recent violence in Charlottesville sparked by the decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen....
View ArticleArtists hang Ku Klux ‘Klowns’ from tree to protest white nationalism in Virginia
RICHMOND, VA — Eight Ku Klux ‘Klown’ effigies were hung from a tree in Richmond, Virginia’s Bryan Park early Thursday morning to protest white nationalism. The art activist collective INDECLINE is...
View ArticleRobert E. Lee’s former church in Virginia is no longer named after him
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia church that Robert E. Lee belonged to after the Civil War will no longer be named after the Confederate general. Leaders of R.E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church voted...
View ArticleConfederate soldier’s grave desecrated at Bladen Co. cemetery
COUNCIL, NC (WWAY) –The Mount Horeb Presbyterian Church and cemetery is nearly 175 years old. In the back of the small white church, sits the plot of a confederate soldier, whose final resting place...
View ArticleForum on UNCW campus tackles topics of slavery, confederate monuments
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) – The conversation of Confederate monuments and their place in the community continued this week on the UNCW’s campus. The National Black Leadership Caucus of New Hanover County...
View ArticleAccused ‘Silent Sam’ vandal: I was ‘adding historical context’
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A protester has acknowledged throwing a mixture of red ink and her own blood on a Confederate statue on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. In an email...
View ArticleSchool honoring Confederate general to be renamed for Obama
RICHMOND, VA (AP) — A Virginia city is rebranding its only school named after a Confederate general to honor the United States’ first black president. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports the Richmond...
View ArticleGroup places flowers at site of toppled Confederate statue
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) – A group that honors Confederate veterans has placed flowers at the site of a recently toppled Confederate statue in North Carolina. The News & Observer reported that the...
View ArticleMixed emotions about removal of Confederate monuments in downtown Wilmington
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The Confederate monuments in downtown Wilmington were taken down overnight, leaving people with mixed emotions as they passed by Thursday. The City of Wilmington says it...
View ArticleMilley: Confederate names on Army bases divide the military
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top military officer says the naming of Army bases for Confederate generals undermines cohesion in today’s force. Without explicitly saying the names should be changed,...
View ArticleDistrict considering removing Confederate’s name from school
CHARLOTTE, NC (AP) — Leaders of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools want to rid a high school of a Confederate general’s name and replace it with the name of a pioneering civil rights attorney. The...
View ArticleNCDMV removes Confederate battle flag license plate
RALEIGH, NC (StarNews) — Six months after acknowledging it had received complaints about the representation of the Confederate battle flag on a specialty license plate, the N.C. Department of Motor...
View ArticleVirginia is set to remove Richmond’s Lee statue on Wednesday
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, will be taken down on Wednesday as a symbol of racial injustice, more than 130 years after it was...
View ArticleFort Bragg name change to Fort Liberty likely to cost more than $6M, new...
WASHINGTON (WTVD) — It will cost approximately $6,374,230 to rename all of Fort Bragg’s assets to Fort Liberty, according to a new report given to Congress on Monday. The report comes from the Naming...
View ArticleFort Bragg officially becoming Fort Liberty during Friday ceremony
(CBS NEWS) — Fort Bragg will shed its Confederate namesake to become Fort Liberty in a Friday ceremony that some veterans view as a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to...
View ArticleFort Bragg drops Confederate namesake for Fort Liberty, part of US Army base...
FORT LIBERTY, NC (AP) — Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to...
View ArticleCivil War cannonballs, swords and unexploded munition discovered in South...
(CBS NEWS) — Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing blow for rebel...
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