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Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument

The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October

The Guardian - US · Oct 17, 2025

Virginia NAACP sues school board for reinstating Confederate names

The Virginia NAACP has sued school officials in a rural county after they restored Confederate military names to two schools

The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2024

Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions

Republican Glenn Youngkin also vetoed bills related to maintaining access to contraception, saying they were ‘not ready’

The Guardian - US · May 18, 2024

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A Virginia county board votes to restore Confederates' names to schools

The school board meeting stretched into early Friday. During the debate, a Black student athlete told the board, "I would have to represent a man that fought for my ancestors to be slaves."

WEKU · May 10, 2024

Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools

Schools changed their names after 2020 George Floyd protests, but will now revert to old names celebrating slave-state leaders

The Guardian - US · May 10, 2024

Virginia county approves restoring names of Confederate leaders to two schools

The schools will go back to being named Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School

Latin Times · May 10, 2024

National Cathedral replaces windows honoring Confederacy with stained-glass homage to racial justice

The landmark Washington National Cathedral has unveiled new stained-glass windows with a theme of racial justice

The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2023

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When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down

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 shooter intended to start a race war and had posed with Confederate imagery in photos posted online.

The Conversation · Aug 8, 2023

A Navy ship named for a Confederate victory now honors a Black Union hero

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

WEKU · Apr 12, 2023

Betsy Ross was buried three times. She’s not the only American with multiple graves

PHILADELPHIA — On Oct. 16, a group of women with ancestral ties to colonial America placed a marker in a Southwest Philadelphia cemetery at the second of Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole’s three graves.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Oct 28, 2022

5 years after their removal, Baltimore’s Confederate monuments are expected to appear in art exhibit in Los Angeles

BALTIMORE — Tucked into the corner of a Baltimore City impound lot teeming with discarded lampposts and street signs, four Confederate-linked monuments have sat for five years.

Tribune News Service · Aug 17, 2022

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