Taylor Swift Once Attacked a KKK Confederate Statue
It’s upsetting that monuments honoring members of the Ku Klux Klan are still standing. Taylor Swift advocated the removal of a KKK leader /Confederate general. She also applauded the removal of the ...
Lawmakers honor 15 enslaved men who built Tennessee Capitol, seek permanent memorial
Tennessee lawmakers for the first time honored the work of 15 enslaved men rented by the State of Tennessee in the 1800s to ...
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Lawmakers honor 15 enslaved men who built Tennessee Capitol, seek permanent memorial
Another forthcoming proposal would seek to erect a memorial in the Capitol rotunda alcove where a bust of Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest once stood. Strains of ...
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The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed
Explore the history of presidential pardons for insurrectionists, including those of Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, and their consequences.