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Confederate flags banned from CMA country music festival for the first time
The Country Music Association said it was banning "Confederate flag imagery of any kind" from CMA F…
Alia Shoaib
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Mississippi governor proclaims April both Confederate Heritage Month and Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, sparking backlash
Gov. Tate Reeves defended himself by saying he was carrying out a tradition set by his predecessors.
Hannah Getahun
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Email database leak reveals dozens of military members, government employees, and academic personnel are active members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
The Sons of Confederate Veterans email database contained 71 military, 46 government, and 204 schoo…
Morgan Keith
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How Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a federal holiday
A bill honoring Martin Luther King Jr. was first introduced in 1968, but it took 32 years for all 5…
Sonam Sheth
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Man who carried a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol was the 'complete opposite of pleasant,' cop testifies
A Capitol police officer hailed for luring rioters away from lawmakers January 6 said the Capitol a…
C. Ryan Barber
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A Black man convicted of assault was given a retrial because the jury deliberated his case in a room decorated with Confederate signs
The jury deliberated Tim Gilbert's case in a room maintained by a Confederate heritage group. His l…
Sophia Ankel
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Black students in Georgia were suspended for planning a protest after white students waved a Confederate flag and allegedly used racial slurs
One student said the school banned LGBTQ+ flags and "Black Lives Matter" clothing but said students…
Taylor Ardrey
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Military police are investigating after someone raised the Confederate flag at a US military base in Germany
"This criminal behavior does not align with the Army's values," an Army spokesperson said of the in…
Ryan Pickrell
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Judge slams January 6 rioter for 'threatening' a Black cop with a Confederate flag and sentences him to 3 years in prison
"You participated in a national embarrassment," the judge told Kevin Seefried, who carried a Confed…
Oma Seddiq
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9 US Army bases named for Confederate leaders have been recommended to get these new names
If confirmed, the suggestions would name bases after Black soldiers and women soldiers for the firs…
Julie Coleman
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Anti-Biden 'Let's Go Brandon' flags have become as conspicuous as Confederate flags once were at NASCAR races
NASCAR's ban on Confederate flags appears to be working.
Cork Gaines
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North Carolina DMV finally removed the Confederate battle flag option for license plates
The DMV said its attempts to work with the Sons of Confederate Veterans on new artwork have been un…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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More than 50 years after the landmark Civil Rights Act passed, Nebraska finally outlawed slavery and Mississippi will replace its Confederate-themed flag
More than 30% of Nebraska voters hoped to keep some form of slavery as an option, but were ultimate…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Wish.com removes most Confederate merchandise, citing policy against hate, but it still sells items glorifying dictators
The online retailer, which has a partnership with the Los Angeles Lakers, removed the items after t…
Charles Davis
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Trump's personnel head wanted to fire the defense secretary because he opposed Confederate flags on bases, vowed to be apolitical, ruled out attacking Iranian cultural sites, sought the perspectives of transgender soldiers, and 13 other reasons
John McEntee, the 29-year old head of the personnel office, wrote a memo on October 19, 2020, outli…
Bryan Metzger
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One of the men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery is fighting to ban from trial photos of his vanity license plate that features a Confederate flag
Court documents say that the vanity plate is similar to an old version of Georgia's state flag whic…
Taylor Ardrey
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Confederate Festival in Brazilian town where US exiles from the South founded a slave-owning colony after the Civil War faces ban, report says
An annual festival is held in a remote Brazilian town where thousands of supporters of the Confeder…
Joshua Zitser
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Mississippi governor signs bill to remove Confederate imagery from the state flag
Mississippi was the last US state to feature Confederate imagery in its flag, and its removal follo…
Rosie Perper
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Guilty: A man who jabbed at a Capitol police officer with a Confederate flag was convicted on January 6 charges
A Trump-appointed judge found Kevin Seefried guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding, tresp…
C. Ryan Barber
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A Kentucky tattoo parlor is covering up hate symbols for people free of charge
Tattoo artists at the Gallery X Art Collective in Murray, Kentucky, is now offering to cover up tat…