How Black newspapers in the US have dispelled myths behind Confederate monuments
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 8, 2024
Donovan Schaefer | International Journalists' Network
In October 2023, nearly seven years after the deadly Unite the Right white supremacist rally, the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, was melted down. Since then, two more major Confederate monuments have been removed: theÂ