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The entrance to Fort Gordon, home to the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Army Cyber Command and the Cyber Center of Excellence. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) AUGUSTA, Ga. — In the waning days of his presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed a formation of troops at the Army post here, making a brief stop while en route […]
Removing the last vestiges of Confederate history from the U.S. military, including renaming nine Army posts, will cost more than $62 million, a congressional commission said Tuesday. The cost was summarized by the group tasked . . .
Comment on this story Comment RICHMOND — Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has appointed a historian to the state Board of Historic Resources who has defended the state’s Confederate monuments and condemned their destruction as a “dangerous” rewriting of history. Ann Hunter McLean of Richmond, the former head of a Christian school, told an online publication […]
APA (7th ed.): ProCon.org. (2022, July 14). Florida Replaces Confederate Soldier Statue in US Capitol’s Statuary Hall with Black Female Pioneer Statue. ProCon.org. https://www.procon.org/florida-replaces-confederate-soldier-statue-in-us-capitols-statuary-hall-with-black-female-pioneer-statue [Editor’s Note: The APA citation style requires double spacing within entries.] Chicago (17th ed.): ProCon.org, “Florida Replaces Confederate Soldier Statue in US Capitol’s Statuary Hall with Black Female Pioneer Statue,” ProCon.org. […]
Devon Henry, whose company was hired to meticulously dismantle Confederate monuments across the country, is giving new meaning to the Confederate flag’s 13 stars with the launch of the “13 Stars” NFT Collection to raise $13 million for social causes. In July of 2020, Devon said yes to a job that no other contractor had […]
Since 1864, there have been two statues per state displayed in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. But not a single one has been a statue of a Black American—until Wednesday. A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune, an educator, civil rights activist, adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and namesake of Bethune-Cookman University, will […]
NASCAR banned the Confederate flag in 2020. Company insiders explain how it happened—and why that single decision has supercharged the business since | Fortune You need to enable JavaScript to view this site. Source link
A Black man’s criminal conviction was overturned in Tennessee after an appeals court said the jury, which deliberated in a room adorned with a Confederate flag and a portrait of Jefferson Davis, had been “exposed” to “improper influence.” In a 31-page decision issued Friday, the state’s criminal court of appeals ordered a new trial for […]
Statue Honoring Black Troops Debuts Near Confederate Monument in Tennessee | PEOPLE.com Skip to content Top Navigation Close this dialog window Explore PEOPLE.com Close this dialog window Share & More Close this dialog window View image Tenn. Statue Honoring U.S. Black Troops Debuts Near Confederate Monument: ‘It Means Courage’ this link is to an external […]
statue honoring black troops Mark Humphrey/AP/Shutterstock The new statue honoring Black U.S. Troops during the Civil War A statue honoring the contributions of Black soldiers in the Civil War has been unveiled in Tennessee. The city of Franklin debuted the “March to Freedom” statue of a United States Colored Troops soldier during a ceremony on […]