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A Confederate statue is restored as part of Trump’s efforts to reshape how history is told

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020, part of a broader effort by the president to reshape the way the country’s history is told. The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and diplomat who later served on the Arkansas Supreme Court, is the only outdoor statue of a Confederate leader in the nation’s capital. It has been contentious since it […]

todayOctober 30, 2025

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Trump says he’d be ‘OK’ with confederate statue of Robert E. Lee while previewing ‘Arch de Trump’ in DC

While previewing a proposed construction of a Paris-style arch in Washington, D.C., supposedly in his honor ahead of the United States’s 250th anniversary, President Donald Trump also gave a nod to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. On Wednesday, Trump previewed the architectural design for an arch, similarly structured as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, and the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Brooklyn, New York. Though these arches were erected to honor soldiers who fought and died in […]

todayOctober 19, 2025 1

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Virginia NAACP sues school board for reinstating confederate names

The Virginia NAACP sued a county school board Tuesday over its reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools, accusing it of embracing segregationist values and subjecting Black students to a racially discriminatory educational environment. The school board in Shenandoah County voted 5-1 last month to revert the name of Mountain View High School back to Stonewall Jackson High School, and that of Honey Run Elementary to Ashby Lee Elementary. The vote reversed a 2020 decision to remove the original […]

todayJune 12, 2024