Judge orders Virginia county to replace Confederate names it restored to schools in 2024 | PBS News

Confederate army officers' names are "vestiges" of Shenandoah County's segregationist history that required separate schools for Black and white students. 

"The Confederate names were restored with complete awareness of their historic legacy and ongoing discriminatory impact," Urbanski wrote…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/judge-orders-virginia-county-to-replace-confederate-names-it-restored-to-schools-in-2024

 

School board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools (The Guardian)

An all-white school board in Virginia has voted to restore the names of Robert E Lee and other Confederate military leaders to two public schools in a backlash to the racial reckoning that followed the police murder of George Floyd...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/virginia-school-board-restore-confederate-names-public-schools

For 150 years, Black journalists have known what Confederate monuments really stood for

According to many of these writers, the statues were never designed to tell the truth about the Civil War. Instead, the monuments were built to enshrine the the myth of the "Lost Cause," the false claim that white Southerners nobly fought for states' rights – and not to preserve slavery...

https://theconversation.com/for-150-years-black-journalists-have-known-what-confederate-monuments-really-stood-for-217895

Trump's 'retribution' campaign theme has apparent roots in old Confederate code, new book says - ABC News

"What I didn't realize was that 'Come Retribution,' according to some Civil War historians, served as the code words for the Confederate Secret Service's plot to take hostage -- and eventually assassinate -- President Abraham Lincoln," Karl writes...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-retribution-campaign-theme-apparent-roots-confederate-code/story

Revealed: neo-Confederate group includes military officers and politicians

Leaked data shows other high-profile members have overlapping membership in more explicitly racist or violent groups…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/28/neo-confederate-group-members-politicians-military-officers

White Lies Matter ransom note: Selma Confederate monument will become ‘toilet’ unless demands met - The Washington Post

...The banner reads: "The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives,"...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/04/06/ransom-confederate-chair-selma/

Why Is North Carolina Paying this Proud Son of Confederate Veterans to Lock Up Black Men?

... In his role as a parole officer, Stone oversees the freedom of those whose cases he's given. There should be a recognized conflict in determining the futures of Black folks while also being a proud promoter of Confederate lies who mixes with stars of the white supremacist movement and promotes a fable that attempts to erase the horrors of slavery and white supremacy...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-north-carolina-paying-this-proud-son-of-confederate-veterans-to-lock-up-black-men

Alabama GOP lawmaker faces calls to resign after celebrating KKK leader’s birthday amid tributes to John Lewis - The Washington Post

As ceremonies honoring the life of civil rights legend John Lewis began over the weekend in Alabama, one Republican state lawmaker elected to take part in a local celebration of another prominent figure in Southern history: Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate Army general and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/28/alabama-republican-lewis-kkk/

Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Event to Sic Supporters on ‘Evil’ Protesters

President Donald Trump devoted his Fourth of July weekend speech at Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota on Friday night not to uniting the country for Independence Day, but to trying to own the libs who take issue with the Confederate statues he sees as vital to American culture. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-uses-mount-rushmore-event-to-sic-supporters-on-evil-protesters

“Let the healing begin!” (Pod Save America podcast)

Trump prepares for a potential speech on race and unity by attacking an elderly protester and defending Confederate-named buildings, Republicans feel the pressure on police reform, and Joe Biden opens up a big lead in the polls. Then Stacey Abrams talks to Jon about the voting disaster in Georgia and her new book, Our Time Is Now.

Interview: 

https://www.spreaker.com/user/9513168/let-the-healing-begin

Trump’s rage at another governor makes him look weak and pathetic - The Washington Post

President Trump loves to thumb-peck tweets such as “LAW & ORDER!” and “STRENGTH!” This brilliant branding, of course, encapsulates his campaign message: Amid intense strife and uncertainty, he is a strong, reassuring presence, and Joe Biden is weak, a captive of disorderly and subversive elements running riot in his party and in the country. Yet in recent days, Trump has floated a deranged conspiracy theory about an elderly victim of police violence, bizarrely demanded an apology over a network poll showing him losing and exploded impulsively against renaming Army bases that honor Confederate traitors, only to see NASCAR, which represents a chunk of his Southern base, ban the Confederate flag at its events moments later. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/11/trumps-rage-another-governor-makes-him-look-weak-pathetic/

Comedians 'Honor' White Nationalist Rep. Steve King With His Own Confederate Statue | HuffPost

A comedy duo called The Good Liars unveiled the “tiny statue for a tiny man” in Des Moines, Iowa.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-king-statue-the-good-liars_n_5e58d66bc5b6beedb4e96afa

Black Confederates: exploding America's most persistent myth

Under Trump, old fractures – and falsehoods – are closer to the surface than ever. A new book seeks to bury a particularly pernicious theory....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/13/black-confederates-civil-war-myth-kevin-levin

Why Doesn’t Donald Trump’s Cozy Relationship With Vladimir Putin Worry His Supporters? Jefferson Davis’s Treason Case Holds a Clue - The Intercept

Trump came to power thanks to some of the same factors that fueled the rise of Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America. ....
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/15/trump-russia-putin-jefferson-davis/

This massacre of black soldiers during the Civil War is reason enough to bring down the Confederate statues - Raw Story

April 12 is the 154th anniversary of the Civil War battle and massacre at Fort Pillow, located on the Mississippi River near Henning, Tennessee. It was a strategic location, held by United States (Union) forces just north of Memphis and controlling river access to and from St. Louis and the Ohio River Valley. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/massacre-black-soldiers-civil-war-reason-enough-bring-confederate-statues/

Major business group scrambles to distance itself from Fox’s Ingraham after speech at their luncheon goes off the rails -- Raw Story

At an annual luncheon held by the most powerful business group in Louisiana, conservative pundit Laura Ingraham defended Confederate general Robert E. Lee — and caused the pro-Trump group to walk back their support of her. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/major-business-group-scrambles-distance-foxs-ingraham-speech-luncheon-goes-off-rails/

Democratic mayors blast Trump, decline White House invite - CNNPolitics

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and a host of other mayors who had been invited to the White House on Wednesday declined the invitation because of a Justice Department crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities.....
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/mitch-landrieu-donald-trump-new-orleans/index.html

'Ethnic cleansing is human nature': Pro-Confederate rally speaker boasts he will be 'as extreme as I can be legally' -- Raw Story

In a deep dive into a pro-Confederacy rally in Memphis, designed to call attention to the city's decision to allow the removal of statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a speaker admitted that he is trying to push modern day Confederacy supporters into extremism. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/ethnic-cleansing-is-human-nature-pro-confederate-rally-speaker-boasts-he-will-be-as-extreme-as-i-can-be-legally/

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history - Vox

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.....
https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/10/25/16545362/southern-socialites-civil-war-history

Neo-Confederate Leader Behind Arrest Warrant For Black Man Beaten In C'Ville -- TPM

One of the most enduring and shocking moments from the white nationalist march on Charlottesville last summer was the parking garage beating of counter-protester DeAndre Harris by a crowd of khaki-wearing white nationalists, who swarmed around the 20-year-old with flagpoles and shields. ....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/harold-ray-crews-league-of-the-south-deandre-harris-warrant