Demonstrators hold Confederate flags near the monument for Confederacy President Jefferson Davis on June 25, 2015, in Richmond, Va., after it was spray-painted with the phrase 'Black Lives Matter.' AP ...

Stone Mountain; the Confederate Memorial Carving, depicting three Confederate heroes of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. Photo: OCollins ...

During my junior year at West Point in 2017, I attended a ceremony honoring the namesake of the school's newest barracks: Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. This was the first building at West Point named ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As calls grow to remove the Confederate flag from public spaces across America's South, Vanessa White says she questions whether that would mark real progress for black ...

Macon-Bibb County commissioners recently OK’d the creation of a Black Confederate memorial, but the move is now at a standstill. Mayor Lester Miller rejected the plan Tuesday during a pre-commission ...

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Raymond H. Boone Sr., a newspaper reporter turned journalism school professor, founded the paper in January 1992 after leaving his job teaching at Howard University. In Richmond, the former capital of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Demonstrators hold Confederate flags near the monument for Confederacy President Jefferson Davis on June 25, 2015, in Richmond, Va ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As calls grow to remove the Confederate flag from public spaces across America's South, Vanessa White says she questions whether that would mark real progress for black ...

Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, instigated the first broad calls for their removal. The ...