In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E ...
After five days of proceedings in federal court, both sides have rested their cases in the civil lawsuit trial challenging ...
So, this week marks the celebration of Juneteenth, which is still a fairly new holiday for me and my family. And all the Juneteenth parties and remembrances reminded me of an article my uncle sent me ...
MIAMI - During the Civil War, Florida was part of the Confederate States of America. However, Key West was not under the control of the Confederacy and the city's 450 slaves were freed before the end ...
Provisions to reverse the Pentagon’s revival of Confederate-era names on Army bases were stripped from the defense ...
A new bill would have enshrined that star as a symbol of the Native American tribes that occupied the land for centuries before Europeans arrived. But Arkansas’ House State Agencies and Government ...
At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...
It's hard to forget the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia last August when hundreds of white supremacists showed up to protest the proposed removal of a statue of General Robert E.
A Trinity College student reignited debate over a Confederate memorial plaque, arguing for its removal due to its association ...
There may not be another president in recent memory who has delivered more victories for the Confederacy than Donald Trump. After getting rid of new names for U.S. military bases originally named ...
In July, a 62-year-old white man named Frank Earnest, one of the country’s most ardent defenders of Confederate monuments, traveled 200 miles from his Virginia home to Washington, D.C., and got in ...
A mass shooting in New Orleans eerily foretold the return of white supremacy to the White House. Deborah “Big Red” Cotton and I met by getting shot together. Deb and I were two of the 20 victims of ...