(Politico) – As debate rages in South Carolina over the Confederate flag on its statehouse property, a majority of Americans see the rebel flag as...
The Associated Press The national president of a U.S. civil-rights group said Wednesday that Confederate symbols represent “treason” and should be removed from public objects, including...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — The Sons of Confederate Veterans knew an attack on their cherished symbols would come after seeing photos...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — Rep. Bennie Thompson, the only Democrat and African-American in Mississippi’s six-member congressional delegation, has waited decades for a groundswell of opposition to the...
(New York Times) – The debate about the Charleston Bible study shooting has morphed into a debate about the Confederate battle flag and other symbols of...
(The Washington Post) – For Russell Moore, a tattered scrap of cloth pinned to the pegboard of his basement study had once been a reminder of...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The savage act of racial terrorism at Emanuel A.M.E. Church – Mother Emanuel – in Charleston, S.C., has been...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The savage act of racial terrorism at Emanuel A.M.E. Church – Mother Emanuel – in Charleston, S.C., has been...
(Salon) – In the days since Dylann Roof murdered nine people, all African-American, in a church in South Carolina, the national conversation has largely concentrated on...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander H. Stephens, onetime vice president of the Confederacy, sits memorialized in stone, right leg crossed over left, staring...