Journalist suspensions widen rift between Twitter … Elon Musk’s abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used the platform to build their audiences. Individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other news agencies saw their accounts go dark Thursday. […]
Experts urge Congress to focus on domestic terrorism … On the second anniversary of the El Paso shooting, senators heard from experts on domestic terror who are calling on Congress to enact new laws to make it easier for law enforcement and prosecutors to fight back against domestic terrorism.
Lafayette County to put up marker for lynching victims OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi county will put up a marker to remember Black men who were lynched by white mobs between 1885 and 1935. It will be near a statue that honors Confederate soldiers. Lafayette County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the memorial for seven Black men lynched in in the county […]
Kansas City struggles with Missouri over police funding KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Leaders in largely Democratic Kansas City, Missouri, don’t control the city’s police department, hire the police chief or determine how the department spends its tax dollars. A 1930s-era law gives that power to a five-member board largely appointed by the Missouri governor, who since 2017 has been a Republican. A […]
Charlottesville removes statue of Robert E. Lee that … A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted away from its place of prominence in Charlottesville on Saturday and carted off to storage, years after its threatened removal became a rallying point for white supremacists and inspired their violent 2017 rally that left a woman dead and dozens injured. Work to remove the […]
Robert E. Lee statue removed in Charlottesville CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted away from its place of prominence in Charlottesville on Saturday and carted off to storage, years after its threatened removal became a rallying point for white supremacists and inspired their violent 2017 rally that left a woman dead and dozens injured. […]
‘Scalded beyond recovery’, diving into the Sultana … The Sultana Disaster in 1865 took the lives of hundreds of Tennesseans, many scalded to death.
Mississippi Senate votes to approve new state flag JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six months after Mississippi legislators retired the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, they are finishing the process of adopting a new flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust.” Voters approved the new flag in November after a commission recommended the design. […]
At least 160 Confederate symbols removed in 2020, … When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee.
Five under-the-radar Democrats who could run for … Democrats are bracing for a beating in this year’s midterm elections, and there are plenty in the party who think Joe Biden might decide not to run for reelection, despite his past statements.
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ … There were, in fact, 20 separate emancipations in the United States alone, from 1780 to 1865, across the U.S. North and South.
