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Mississippi Votes to Remove Confederate Banner From Its State Flag

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 2, 2020November 5, 2020

After flying for 126 years, the flag will go on display at the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

Posted inNews

Charting the Proliferation of Confederate Symbols Alongside Social Movements

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz August 16, 2017August 16, 2017

A chart by the Southern Poverty Law Center cataloguing Confederate symbols around the country recently resurfaced.

Dorothea Lange, "One side of the monument erected to race prejudice. New Orleans, Louisiana" (1936) (via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inIn Brief

First of New Orleans’s Confederate Monuments Comes Down

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 24, 2017

In the wee hours of Monday morning, the 1891 monument to the Battle of Liberty Place was disassembled and taken to a storage facility.

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US National Cathedral to Excommunicate Stained Glass Confederate Flags

by Claire Voon June 9, 2016

The flags of all 50 states hang in plain sight over the nave of the Washington National Cathedral, but for decades, two Confederate flags went largely unnoticed.

Posted inIn Brief

Artist Proposes Adding Stone Carving of Outkast to Confederate Monument

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton July 28, 2015July 30, 2015

Now that surveying and debating the fates of Confederate monuments around the US has become a national pastime, an artist has proposed a spottieottiedopaliscious solution for one of the most egregious and seemingly immovable.

Posted inArt

From Climate Change to Race Relations, Artists Respond to Richmond, Virginia

by Jessica Lynne July 13, 2015July 15, 2015

New Dominion, a group show at Mixed Greens, brings together the work of eight artists living and working in Richmond, Virginia.

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#BlackLivesMatter Protesters Target Confederate Monuments

by Claire Voon July 6, 2015

Yesterday, officials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found a statue commemorating Civil War Confederate veterans spray-painted with the words “Murderer,” “KKK,” and “BLACK LIVES MATTER.”

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Confederate Monument Watch, a New Genre of Journalism

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 30, 2015October 24, 2016

In the days since Dylann Roof murdered nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, many have called for the removal of the thousands of Confederate flags, memorials, and monuments displayed in public spaces throughout the US.

Posted inArt

How Artists Can Help Us Conceive of New Flags and Monuments for the US

by Ben Valentine June 29, 2015July 1, 2015

All flags bear the stain of conquest.

Posted inOpinion

What Should Be Done with the US’s Many Confederate Monuments?

by Jillian Steinhauer June 23, 2015June 24, 2015

Yesterday afternoon, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol.

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