confederacy

The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them? NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South. If there are those who want...

:wow: About damn time. Happy Junteenth. :blessed: ..…….................... SEC Warns Mississippi Over Confederate Emblem on State Flag The league’s statement will place new pressure on Mississippi lawmakers. But it may not make much difference. *******UPDATE******** :wow:

He looks like a man lost in time, uprooted,with the horse he rode in on, from a previous century, perhaps, or was it a future one? In a riot of flashing neon signs and costumed avengers, populating a patch of Times Square on Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets, he can be seen looking regal...

New monument to African Americans would join the Confederate statues at the Capitol BY DAWN BAUMGARTNER VAUGHAN JULY 16, 2019 01:15 PM RALEIGH Schoolchildren are the most frequent visitors to the state Capitol grounds in downtown Raleigh, and so they are the target audience for a planned...

“Uncivil,” an excellent new podcast about the Civil War hosted by Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika, begins with a visit this summer to a controversial statue. It doesn’t involve Robert E. Lee or the Confederate flag, they tell us: it’s the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., which was...