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Both schools are now more than 85 percent black.

The namesake led an "insurrection" against black rule in Wilmington.

Dozens now honor non-whites instead.

Black mayor: "This is the last stand for the Lost Cause in our city."

“Change has come, and it will continue to happen."

Activists are upset the fort will now be named after Dwight D. Eisenhower.

"The Delete Dixie Initiative is one step toward changing the culture of our campus and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

The virtue signaling will cost $63 million.

It would cost $62.5 million to erase Southern heritage.

The memorial for Confederate war dead is “problematic from top to bottom.”

Retired admiral says it's more important for the Navy to celebrate diversity than heritage.

"The commissioners do not make these recommendations with any intention of 'erasing history.' "

"[T]he photo has since been removed because it does not meet AWC values."

A Republican governor ordered the replacement.

It's a 20-foot portrait in the academy's library.

The flag threatens the safety of concertgoers.

Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, and Fort Hood would all be renamed.

City councilman declares Lee "a traitor to his own country."

A report on the 2004 American Renaissance conference.

"Is it racist to have streets like Plantation and Confederate?"

"This is another example of how our state continues to live in the past."

"It’s overwhelmingly supported by our fans. It’s part of the tradition."

What the monument's removal means for us.

What can Southern patriots do?

They were honorable and courageous patriots.

At least one Southern state still honors its heritage.

Even a US naval base in Japan will be scrutinized.

The statue honored locals who died fighting for the Confederacy.

Whose country?

Colin Kaepernick wants back on the plantation.

Chancellor says the change helps "advance the dignity and power of diversity."

She's surprised a Confederacy museum isn't anti-Confederate.

"Gerrymandered districts are a byproduct of the Confederacy."

The Republican House speaker has no idea where the statue went.

Over 700 Confederate monuments are still standing.

A conflicted white man if there ever was one.

City is spending $1.5 million to haul away the granite.

Black god replaces white hero.

Black musician replaces white hero.

The humiliation continues.

Florida’s Republican governor approved the Confederate's removal in 2016.

Look what they do to heritage.

Richmond's black mayor wanted a "clean slate."

“This proposal best speaks to the values of equity and racial justice."

Another Southern hero is toppled.

Confederate symbols matter more than the evidence.

A majority of county respondents voted to keep the names.

The city wants “to create a new symbolic landscape that is representative of the. . . diverse city Charlotte has become."

This could be the most outrageous story of the year.

Really?

Blacks need to be at "the very center of American history."

It erected a statue of a black Union solider near a Confederate monument.

Was Taylor a little over-optimistic?

“Recontextualization is not enough."

The demonstrators wanted the school to punish those who waved the Confederate flag.

Black criminals replace white heroes.

Happy eightieth birthday to the former Mississippi Senator.

A civil rights activist will replace Jefferson Davis.

"[G]overnments are not obliged . . . to permit the presence of a rebellious army's battle flag . . . ."

The new windows will tell "a new and more complete" story.

Out with Robert E. Lee, in with Nat Turner.

It's the state's only remaining Confederate monument on public grounds.

The terms of surrender have been withdrawn.

The woke capsule will replace the 1887 artifacts left under the toppled Robert E. Lee statue.

The crowd chanted "Black Lives Matter" as the statue was removed.

The monument and property were intended to be “perpetually sacred to the Monumental purpose to which they have been devoted."

County supervisor called for its removal because it reminded him of the January 6 protests.

The occupiers continue their desecration.

M.E. Bradford's authentic conservatism.

Majority-black city will replace a Confederate monument with an Emmett Till statue.

Councilman: "We’re taking these down because of mob rule."

House Speaker: "Any attempt to erase the past only aligns society with the teaching of communism."

"Arlington County officials say the name change will better reflect community values."

It was donated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1922.

Former mayor of 97-percent-black town tried to cut down its Confederate statue.