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The DCFACES review, which began after the May police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, identified a number of past US presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, as figures who should not have public buildings or parks named for them.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Confederate monument will remain, for now, in a prominent spot on the University of Mississippi campus, nearly a year after student leaders requested that it be moved to a Civil War cemetery. The board that governs Mississippi’s eight public universities met Thursday and delayed a vote on a proposal to […]

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is promising to protect Mount Rushmore as more monuments come down across the country.

The noose found hanging in the Talladega Superspeedway garage assigned to NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace had been there since late last year, federal agents said Tuesday afternoon.

A commission is choosing a single proposal to replace a state flag that Mississippi retired because the old banner had the Confederate battle emblem that was widely seen as racist.

Verdict: Unintentional 2nd degree murder: Guilty Third-degree murder: Guilty Second-degree manslaughter: Guilty Bail was revoked and Chauvin was returned to the custody of the county sheriff.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 […]

A tweet from Rep. Jason Powell called the statue, “one of the most hideous and offensive statues in Nashville.”

A panel will meet Thursday to decide whether to recommend that the bust of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest be removed from the state Capitol.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) announced he is introducing a bipartisan bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth, celebrated June 19, marks the anniversary of the end of slavery in the state of Texas. While President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the document only freed slaves in Confederate-controlled […]

The San Francisco school board has voted to remove the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln from public schools after officials deemed them and other prominent figures, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, unworthy of the honor.

The expanded policy means that even when sites of games are determined by performance as they are in sports such as baseball and women’s basketball, Mississippi schools will not be permitted to host NCAA tournament games.