Robert E. Lee
Trespassing charges are pending for a Richmond man in a Charlottesville, Virginia incident. Charlottesville police say 34- year-old Christopher James Wayne was charged Wednesday for the removal of a tarp covering Confederate statues. Authorities say the tarps were removed from the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues in Emancipation and Justice parks that afternoon. […]
A federal appeals court allows New Orleans to remove three prominently displayed Confederate monuments.
Mississippi is the only state in the United States that continues to fly a Confederate emblem on its flag and the fight to bring it down has reached the nation's capital.
A Republican lawmaker from Georgia, who was criticized last week for saying the Ku Klux Klan was not racist, has now withdrawn his name from several bills he sponsored to honor the Confederacy.
State Rep. Tommy Benton has come out in favor of two bills that will formally uphold holidays celebrating Confederate members.