This week we begin with this article from Jacksonville, Florida. “The Take ‘Em Down Jax protestors still rally each Friday in front of City Hall demanding the removal of the Confederate monument from Springfield Park. They might still be picketing in July when the next mayor and City Council take office because the current council has repeatedly put […]

This week we begin with this article from Florida, telling us how lying racists in the state legislature are staging a backlash against truth in history by forbidding any contextualization of monuments that would highlight the fake history inherent in them. “Legislation in the House and the Senate would protect monuments of war from not […]

We begin this week with this article from Virginia. “In an open-air industrial area in Richmond, Virginia, lie the remains of Confederate statues. The storage wasteland, whose exact location has been withheld for security reasons, is a carefully organized graveyard of America’s racist past. The remains of Gen Robert E Lee – glorified by a statue […]

This article from Georgia looks at what the white supremacist group known as the Sons of Confederate Veterans is doing to push the racist lie that African Americans in large numbers fought for the confederacy. “In recognition of February as Black History Month and Confederate History Month in April, the Rabun Gap Riflemen, Camp 1929, […]

We begin with this article from Richmond, Virginia, about a racist backlash against progress. “Robert C. Smith is not happy with the University of Richmond. Smith, a Richmond lawyer who graduated from the university’s law school, is the great-great grandson of T.C. Williams, one of the school’s early and prominent benefactors. Until last year, the […]

We have this article from Akron, Ohio. “Akron Public Schools says it acted quickly after a display was installed by a substitute teacher. The display included a Confederate Flag background with photos on it. … One photo was of Carolyn Bryant Donham, another photo showed a Black man with injuries to his back, another who is […]

We begin this week’s installment of our look at the nationwide retreat of confederate heritage with this article from Alabama. “A set of bills pre-filed for the Alabama Legislature’s upcoming session would end two holidays honoring Confederate leaders and add holidays for Juneteenth and Election Day. The four bills were all pre-filed by Rep. Chris […]

We begin this week’s look at the nationwide retreat of confederate heritage with this article from Manatee County, Florida. “Manatee County officials will table a discussion scheduled for Tuesday over plans to resurrect a controversial monument honoring confederate soldiers. The postponement will give commissioners an opportunity to consider alternative locations for the monument. Although options […]

This week, we begin with this article from Austin, Texas. “Two days after the country celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, state Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, stood inside the state Capitol and reminded those in attendance that Texas would soon celebrate a holiday honoring the Confederacy. Johnson was angry. In the same week when the […]