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:mjpls: SCV: Gov. Tate Reeves Proclaimed ‘Confederate Heritage Month’ on April 3 As coronavirus spiked across the state, the Mississippi Sons of Confederate Veterans posted a copy of an April 3 state proclamation naming this month as “Confederate Heritage Month.” Gov. Tate Reeves apparently...

Here ya go. Robert Smalls was born to Lydia Polite, an enslaved woman, in 1839. He started working in outside labor from the age of 12 but could only keep a dollar a week and had to give the rest to the damn master. He sought out work on the docks cause he loved the sea, and eventually worked...

Blanca Hernandez sews stars on a Confederate Battle Flag in the Alabama Flag & Banner shop in Huntsville, Alabama, U.S., August 24, 2017. REUTERS/Harrison McClary Demand for Confederate flags at Chris Ackerman’s Civil War memorabilia shop in Pennsylvania has surged since violence at a white...

celebrating anti-slavery heroes, slave resistance, or black liberation in the US? In light of Charlottesville and the national debate over Confederate monuments and preserving the legacy of southern slavers that committed treason against the U.S., what's missing from the national debate is why...

The controversial statue in Memphis, Tennessee, of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a civil war general who was also an early member of the Ku Klux Klan. Photograph: Suzanne Lynch In the sixth part of her series “Coast to Coast: Travels in Trump’s America”, Washington Correspondent Suzanne Lynch...