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An effort to end Arkansas’ day set aside to commemorate the flag of the Confederacy has failed before a Senate panel.

The Sultana Disaster in 1865 took the lives of hundreds of Tennesseans, many scalded to death.

Verdict: Unintentional 2nd degree murder: Guilty Third-degree murder: Guilty Second-degree manslaughter: Guilty Bail was revoked and Chauvin was returned to the custody of the county sheriff. ****** MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black […]

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Prep work is being done in a Mississippi cemetery for a Confederate monument that will be moved away from a county courthouse. Excavation started this month near the graves of unidentified Confederate soldiers in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus. A representative from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History was on hand […]

The Arkansas House has overwhelmingly approved a proposal to end a day that commemorates the Confederate flag.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Just as Mississippi governors have for decades, Governor Tate Reeves signed a proclamation declaring April to be “Confederate Heritage Month.” “This has been going on a long time to honor the Confederate veterans in the South that fought for the South,” said Lee Millar with Sons of Confederate Veterans. But some believe […]

An Arkansas State Representative from Washington County has filed a bill that would change the Arkansas state flag, stripping it of its Confederate ties.

The Tennessee Historical Commission voted Tuesday to accept the Capitol Commission’s waiver to relocate the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from the state capitol.

A Tennessee panel is planning a vote on whether to remove the state Capitol’s bust of a Confederate general.

A huge bust of York, a Black man who was enslaved by William Clark and who was the first African-American to cross the continent and reach the Pacific Ocean, is sitting atop a pedestal amid a lushly forested park in Portland, Oregon. It was placed there in the dead of night last weekend by persons unknown.

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.